Grade 12 – Media and Information Literacy

First Quarter/First Grading

TOPIC 1: Defining Media, Information and Technology Literacy

CODE : MIL11/12IMIL-IIIa-1-3

Directions:
Read, analyze and answer the motivation/review before starting the lesson.
Read the content of Lesson 1.
After try to test your understanding by doing the simple activity made after the lesson and;
After which try to answer the question I have prepared for you after the activity.
Please use the answer sheet intended for the activities.
I will collect this learning materials together with your activity and answers after a week.

Lesson 1: Introduction to Media and Information Literacy

Time Period: (1 week) (August 24-27, 2020)

Learning Objectives:
Introduce the following by stating that at the end of the lesson, the learners shall be able to:
 Describe how media and information affect communication.
 Editorialize the value of being a media and information literate individual.
 Share your media lifestyle, habits, and preferences.

Motivation: (The Low-tech Future)

1. To my dear students you are 21at Century, where people are dependent on technology.
2. As the learners to imagine waking up one day to find no Internet, libraries, and cell phones. Newspapers,
magazines, radio stations and TV channels have also disappeared.

3. Answer the following questions.

 How would you be informed of anything now?

 What ways would you have to communicate with one another?

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 How would you share information and communicate news and events?

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  What would happen with the decisions you usually make?

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 How would it affect the way you live?

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 What would you personally miss most in such a situation?

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 What would society lose in this situation?

Lesson Proper:

• Literacy: The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed
and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning, wherein
individuals are able to achieve their goals, develop their knowledge and potential, and participate fully in
their community and wider society.

• Literate: The ability to read and write, also having or showing knowledge about a particular subject.

• Media: The physical objects used to communicate with, or the mass communication through physical
objects such as radio, television, computers, film, etc. It also refers to any physical object used to
communicate messages.

• Media Literacy: The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms. It aims
to empower citizens by providing them with the competencies (knowledge and skills) necessary to engage
with traditional media and new technologies.

• Information: A broad term that covers processed data, knowledge derived from study, experience,
instruction, signals or symbols.

• Information Literacy: The ability to recognize when information is needed, and to locate, evaluate, and
effectively communicate information in its various formats.

• Technology Literacy: The ability of an individual, either working independently or with others, to
responsibly, appropriately, and effectively use technological tools. Using these tools an individual can
access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information.

• Media and Information Literacy: The essential skills and competencies that allow individuals to engage
with media and other information providers effectively, as well as develop critical thinking and life-long
learning skills to socialize and become active citizens.

Other Definitions

Media - physical objects used to communicate including mass media (radio, television, computers, film,
etc.). Traditionally, media are source of credible information in which contents are provided through an
editorial process determined by journalistic values and where editorial accountability can be attributed to an
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organization or a legal person. In more recent years the term ‘media’ is often used to include new online
media.
Information Literacy - includes the competencies to be effective in all stages of the lifecycle of documents
of all kinds, the capacity to understand the ethical implications of these documents, and the ability to
behave in an ethical way throughout these stages.

Activity: (Flash News and Visuals)

Directions: Watch any news and answer the following questions.

Title of News : Date:
Person’s Involve: Place:
Short Discerption of the news:

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Guide questions:
• Did you believe these news items were true? How did you know they were true/false?

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• Are all news and information on the Internet true? Why or why not?

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• Who gets to post news items online? Expound.

Evaluation: Answer the following questions.

Guide questions:
 In your opinion, what makes an individual literate in media and information?

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 What activities/habits do you practice which illustrate media and information literacy? Give at least
three examples.

NO TO PLAGIARISM!
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 Good Luck & God Bless. Keep Safe. 

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