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Media and Information

Literacy
Quarter 1 – Module 3:
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
What I Need to Know
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help
you master the context of Media and Information Literacy. It contains varied
activities that can help you as a Senior High School student to not just be an
information literate individual, but a creative and critical thinker as well as
responsible user and competent producer of media and information.

What I Know

Let us determine how much you already know about the Media and
Information Literacy by answering the questions below. Use your worksheet for
your answers.

A. True or False: Write True if the statement is correct otherwise, write False on
your answer sheet.
_____ 1. Literacy is a fundamental human right and the foundation for lifelong
learning.
_____ 2. Empowerment is not significant in our appreciation of how literacy
provides us with means to access the world of knowledge so we can lead
better lives.
_____ 3. Power is often related to our ability to make others do what we want,
regardless of their own wishes or interests.
_____ 4. Information literacy is best understood on how we navigate the complex
and networked world of the internet.
______ 5. The Internet is an increasingly important part of everyday life for people
around the world.
______ 6. The three-letter code preceded by a dot (.), simply known as the “search
engine site”.
______ 7. Information seeking is relatively synonymous to the idea of research.
______ 8. Books, newspapers, and other periodicals are example of Print format
information.
______ 9. When you are information literate, you are able to evaluate what
information you need, what to discard, and how to use the information you
selected.

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_____ 10. When you are able to judge the “ Potential value of Information,” you will
not be able to maximize its use.
B. Instruction: Assess yourself.

1. What is your primary source of information especially for schoolwork?

2. What are your considerations when looking for a particular information? Do
you need a quick fact or a critical analysis?
3. Do you prefer unbiased information or an opinion? Current information or a
historical one?
4. Do you automatically use a Web search engine to locate for the information
you need? What do you use and why?
5. Do you check just any kind of Website? What are your personal criteria for
selecting a Web site as your source of information?

MIL Information Technology

What’s In

Information Literacy is an important skill in life. An individual who is literate in the

location, access, evaluation, and use of information also displays a certain sense of
critical literacy. When you are information literate, you are able to evaluate what
information you need, what to discard, and how to use the information you
selected.

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Before we go further, try to answer the questions below, this are some
questions that comes into our mind when we talk about Information Literacy.

1. Why do we need information?

2. Where do we need information?
3. How do we acquire and store information?
4. How do we use the information that we have?
5. How will we communicate the information that we have acquired?

What is It

Literacy and Empowerment

Literacy is widely known as the ability to read and write. The advent of modernity
and the expansion of access to general education has enabled societies to produce
literate populations. Literacy always associated with a set of tangible skills,
particularly the skills of writing and reading. Its counterpart is the concept of
numeracy, which is the skills associated with basic mathematical operations
involving numbers.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
cites the importance of literacy in the modern world: “Literacy is a fundamental
human right and the foundation for lifelong learning. It is fully essential to social
and human development in its ability to transform lives. For individuals, families,
and societies alike, it is an instrument of empowerment to improve one’s health,
one’s income, and one’s relationship with the world.” (UNESCO, 2003)
Empowerment is very significant in our appreciation of how literacy provides us
with means to access the world of knowledge so we can lead better lives.
Empowerment is an idea of power, as linked on the idea that power can change,
that the ownership of power can shift form one entity to another. Empowerment is
also possible because power can expand or diminish as the case may be. “Let us
first review our notions of power.
Power is often related to our ability to make others do what we want, regardless of
their own wishes or interests (Weber, 1946). Power is not always relational. One
needs to cultivate a notion of power within to fully realize. True enough, power can
reside inside, you given the opportunity to access the knowledge, skills, and
attitudes.

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Information and Internet
Information can be the answer to a question, a news, or a data. It is that which
informs, that which enables us to know and something also communicable.
Information literacy is best understood on how we navigate the complex and
networked world of the internet. The internet has more than practical uses in our
lives. It has been transformed to be the primary source for research,
complementing what can be found in school libraries.
Today, we live in a knowledge-based society surrounded by cutting-edge
technology that makes every aspect of our lives faster and easier. The internet
arose in 1968, but it was in 1989 when a fully developed World Wide Web (WWW)
arose and turned it into the global platform for knowledge-sharing, communication,
and achieving.
The Internet is an increasingly important part of everyday life for people around
the world. But if you've never used the Internet before, all of this new information
might feel a bit confusing at first. The Internet is a global network of billions of
computers and other electronic devices. With the Internet, it's possible to access
almost any information, communicate with anyone else in the world, and do much
more.

You can do all of this by connecting a computer to the Internet, which is also
called going online. When someone says a computer is online, it's just another way
of saying it's connected to the Internet.

The World Wide Web—usually called the Web for short—is a collection of different
websites you can access through the Internet. A website is made up of related
text, images, and other resources. Websites can resemble other forms of media—
like newspaper articles or television programs—or they can be interactive in a way
that's unique to computers.

The purpose of a website can be almost anything: a news platform, an

advertisement, an online library, a forum for sharing images, or an educational
site.

Who Puts Information on the Internet?

There are many kinds of Internet sites that you might find during the course
of a search – sites created by different people or organizations with different
objectives. The three-letter code preceded by a dot (.), simply known as the domain,
gives you a fairly good idea of who is publishing the internet site.
Domain Names Equivalent
.edu Educational institution
It may contain carefully processed and reviewed
information tough not represent the individual
views of the academic personnel.
.com Mostly commercial entities, some of which are
profit-oriented.
.org Non-profit organization

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.gov Government organizations
.net Internet services providers or network

What Determines Your Need for Information?

Information seeking is relatively synonymous to the idea of research. When you
locate information. You employ the necessary skills to engage in the research
process. Your need for information depends on your prior knowledge and
experience, as well as your goals and objectives.
Your information needs to rely on what questions or problems you would like to
solve or, simply, what you need the information for. These needs also depend on
the relevance of the information you seek to the task you are supposed to
accomplished. Ask yourself who will consume and/ or benefit from the information
you are trying to locate. You must also identify how much information you need
and its adequacy to address your task. Consult your personal knowledge base so
that you can plan what else to search to augment what you already know.

Sources of Information
Sources of information, drawn from the internet or otherwise, can be categorized
into the following:

1. Popular Publications: Most of what rules in the print and non-print media
are popular publications with the general public as its target audience.
Included under this category are journalistic articles, features articles,
manuals, flyers, fact sheets, and even blogs by netizens. They serve to both
inform and entertain the general public.

2. Scholarly Publications: These are well-researched articles found mostly in

academic journals and published for the specialists of a specific field. The
language is very technical because it is geared toward the consumption of
specialists, scholars, and those seeking research-based information on a
particular area of knowledge such the social science, the natural sciences,
and the arts and humanities.

3. Trade Publication: These are also highly specialized materials meant for the
players and specialists of a specific industry. Some good examples are
publications on motoring or publications on construction. Trade
Publications combine popular appeal and specialized knowledge because it
also needs to attract the non-specialist who are the potential consumers of
users of a particular product.

Format of Information
FORMAT DESCRITION

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Materials produced and collected from print resources
Print (books, newspapers, and other periodicals, manuscripts,
correspondence, memoranda, loose leaf materials, notes,
brochures, etc.).
Digital materials are information materials that are
Digital Formats stored in an electronic format on a hard drive, CD-ROM,
remote server, or even the Cloud. These could be
electronic books, database websites, video, and audio
materials. These materials may be accessed with a
computer and/or through the internet.
Materials collected using analog technology in video
Audio and Video (television, video, recordings) tools presented in recorded
Format tapes, CDs, audio-cassettes, reel to reel tapes, record
albums, etc. As differentiated from digital technology,
these sources of information are recorded using analog
technology which means data is recorded in advance
from one point to another. Analog devices read the
material by scanning the physical data off the media.
This includes materials that have been photographed
Microform and their images developed in reduced-size film strips
and which are viewed using machines with magnifying
lenses.

Assessment

A. True or False: Write True if the statement is correct otherwise, write False on
your answer sheet.
_____ 1. Literacy is a fundamental human right and the foundation for lifelong
learning.
_____ 2. Empowerment is not significant in our appreciation of how literacy
provides us with means to access the world of knowledge so we can lead
better lives.
_____ 3. Power is often related to our ability to make others do what we want,
regardless of their own wishes or interests.
_____ 4. Information literacy is best understood on how we navigate the complex
and networked world of the internet.
______ 5. The Internet is an increasingly important part of everyday life for people
around the world.
______ 6. The three-letter code preceded by a dot (.), simply known as the “search
engine site”.
______ 7. Information seeking is relatively synonymous to the idea of research.
______ 8. Books, newspapers, and other periodicals are example of Print format
information.

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______ 9. When you are information literate, you are able to evaluate what
information you need, what to discard, and how to use the information you
selected.
_____ 10. When you are able to judge the “ Potential value of Information,” you will
not be able to maximize its use.

Answer Key

10 . False
9 . True
8 . True
7 . True
6 . False
5 . True
4 . True
3 . True
2 . False
1 . True
A. True or False
Assessment:

10 . False
9 . True
8 . True
7 . True
6 . False
5 . True
4 . True
3 . True
2 . False
1 . True
A. True or False

What I know

References

Books

Liquigan, Boots C. Media and Information Literacy. Philippine: DIWA

Learning System Inc., 2016
Zarate, Jovita E. Media and Information Literacy. 1st ed. Philippine: Rex Book Store, Inc. 2016
Internet

UNESCO, “Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers”, Accessed on 25 of June 2020.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-andinformation/resources/publications-and-
communicationmaterials/publications/full-list/media-and-information-literacycurriculum-for-
teachers/

GCFGlobal:GCFLearnFree.org. “Internet Basics”.

https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/internetbasics/ (accessed 21 June 2020)

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https://cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/mypad.northampton.ac.uk/dist/2/88/files/
2013/02/Information-Literacy-1o7bhdt.png (Accessed on 11 of August 2020)

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