DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

SCHOOLS DIVISION OF MASBATE PROVINCE

Media and Information Literacy

Quarter 1- Module 3 –

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Defines information needs, locates, assesses, organizes and communicates information.
2. Demonstrates ethical use of information.

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.
_____ 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?

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.

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?

Instruction: Answer the following questions in your worksheet or notebook.

1. As a student, what do you think are the usual instances and reasons for your need of information?
2. What tasks have you done in the past that required searching information for you to complete them.

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.
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.

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

There is a need to do an analysis of what type of information will best serve your need, what access tools are you
going to utilize, and what results will be critical to the success of your information retrieval.
Patience and diligence are virtues of a good information seeker. The World Wide Web (WWW) is not the end, but the
means for your information search.