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Media and Information Literacy recognizes the primary role of Media and Information in our everyday lives. The purpose of being an Information and Media Literate is to engage in a digital society where one needs to be able to use, understand, inquire, create, communicate and think critically. It is important to have the capacity to effectively access, organize, evaluate, and create messages in a variety of forms. Information and Media Literacy enables people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information and media as well as to become skillful creators ad producers of information and media messages in their own right. To become a Media Literate is not to memorize facts or statistics about media but rather to learn, to raise the right questions about what you are watching, reading, or listening to and to be an Information Literate a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information because you are a medium of spreading significant information in the community.
Being Media and Information literate is not just for yourself to understand but for you to spread the information to others. As we all know that teenagers nowadays are into SNS (Social Networking Sites) where most teenagers learn and understand on what is happening to their surroundings and being able to know, they share what they read. Through sharing (the information in SNS), people are able to communicate and spread awareness to everyone. With this kind of mindset for such digital users, it can help others know that being into social media is not just a disadvantage, but it has a great role for everyone to be a Media and Information Literate. There are advantages and disadvantages of media being a media information literate individual. The disadvantage of this is sometimes your ideas or opinions can affect other people and the advantage is sometimes it motivates and inspire other people.
People are no longer limited to the desktop computer. People now use mobile technologies since its very accessible to every one. Media and Information Literacy therefore is about helping any one to become competent, critical, and literate in all media forms so that they control the interpretation of what they see or hear rather than letting the interpretation control them. It also promotes entry to information and knowledge, and building knowledge societies. It also produces careful and critical thinkers.
In other words, Media and Information Literacy will help you become a brilliant receiver and sender of information in media and in any other platform.
“Media literacy is not just important, it’s absolutely critical. It’s going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.”
― Linda Ellerbee
“Do not believe all that you hear and see.
Always check the original source of information.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
#CARRY ON LEARNING
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