Media Literacy

What kind of media will you use if I ask you to look for Cleopatra?

The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.

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

The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms.

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

After browsing in a social media app, you’ve found some news about a new virus spreading around the world that was called ZOMVID-20. What will be the first thing you do after reading?

The act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else.

After browsing further in a social media app, you’ve found your friend’s post about ZOMVID-20. It looks like your friend believed it. What will you do about it?

It is the ability to understand, create, communicate, interpret, compute using materials associated with varying contexts.

It is the ability 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.

A media and information literate individual can acquire and process deep information but will not discuss or elaborate on texts.