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• Media and Information Literacy


  Recognizes the primary role of media in everyday lives, empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, critically evaluate their content, and make informed decisions as users and producers of information and media content
• Media literate individual


  • Can decode, evaluate, analyze and produce both print and electronic media, not only use media platforms but able to analyze and evaluate information taken from it
• One simple aspect of media and information literacy is critical viewing: the awareness that what we are accessing is not necessarily the whole truth
• Literacy


  Ability to read and write, as well as develop ways of thinking about something
• New literacies have and will continue to evolve as technology and culture do
• Media and information play such integral roles in our modern lives that it is difficult to imagine life without them
• Individual benefits of the growth of media and information


  • Improved quality of life
  • Better professional opportunities
  • Varied educational tools
• Societal benefits of the growth of media and information


  • Greater economic opportunities
  • More cohesive social groups
  • Increased enhanced political participation
  • Greater public information and education
• The COVID 19 pandemic brought to our attention how easily disinformation and deception can spread through different forms of media
• Part of becoming more media and information literate is recognizing our own biases, and working to reduce or eliminate them
• Cyberbullying


  The use of online or computer-based means to harass or belittle others
• Copyright infringement

  The misuse of copyright-protected material without permission
• Computer or internet addiction

  The uncontrolled dependency on computer or internet use