Media and

Information
Literacy (MIL)
3rd Quarter 2nd Semester

Week 3:
Information Literacy
 Define information needs: can
locate, access, assess, organize,
and communicate information.

Demonstrate ethical use of

information.
This module will
help you achieve
Media and
Information Literacy
(MIL) learning Create an activity matrix applying
competency: the components of information.
INFORMATION

• is the data that has been collected,

processed, and interpreted to be
presented in a usable form. In media
world, information is often used to
describe knowledge of specific events
or situations that has been gathered
or received by communication,
intelligence, or news reports.
LITERACY

• is the understanding of a specific

subject.
 is a means to express
personal ideas, develop
arguments, refute the
opinions of others, learn
new things, or simply Information
identify the truth or factual Literacy
evidence about a topic.
An Information Literate can:
1) Use the data to achieve a particular
objective.
2) Access information ethically.
3) Use the information lawfully.
4) Collect the data into one’s learning base.
5) Make the information useful and efficient.
6) Assess the data and sources.
Information Literate Required Skills:
1) To be able to find resources.
2) To be able to find information.
Examples:
▪ Using URL’s book marking,
▪ Finding across multiple sources and
▪ Understanding and being able to locate what is more important and produce and importance ranking.
3) Ethical and responsible use of information.
4) To communicate one’s information.
5) To be able to manage your information.
6) To be able to examine results.
How?
a. Check if the information is appropriate to the question, or task given.
b. Verify the authenticity and source.
c. Consistency of information given.
d. The rate of having errors in the result.
 CopyRight©
▪ Protects owner of his/her right for use and distribution of
original work for lifetime plus 50 years.

Public Domain
▪ After copyright expires, available for public
domain and can be used for free.

Fair Use
▪ Limitation and exception to exclusive right granted by
copyright law, no need to ask permission
ETHICAL USE OF INFORMATION

• This includes the problems with the intellectual property,

proper use, freedom of information, security of the
information and plagiarism.
o PLAGIARISM is a “wrongful appropriation” and “stealing
and publication” of another author’s “language, thoughts,
ideas, or expressions” and the representation of them as
one’s own original work.
 1) Respect the author’s intentions.
▪ It is important to never use information in a way it is different from
the author’s intention.
GUIDELINES FOR 2) Do not change the author’s main idea.
ETHICAL USE OF ▪ Although it is not always necessary to quote an entire passage to make your point,
INFORMATION make sure that you have not changed the author’s main idea through selective
quoting or use of ellipsis (…).

3) Do not ignore information that conflicts with your study.

▪ It is not ethical to prove your thesis by ignoring well-known information that
conflicts with or refutes it. A well-argued paper confronts such evidence.

4) Context matters.
▪ Always be aware of the context (i.e. historical, sociological, cultural etc.) in which your
source document was produced.
▪ Although you should keep these guidelines in mid when researching and writing your
papers, you may run into a few gray areas such as:
a. Text that seemingly contradict their arguments.
b. Texts that contain information that can be used to support a thesis not addressed by the
author.
STAGES AND ELEMENTS

Identifying/Recognizi Determining sources Locating/searching

ng information needs of information for information
We can identify the We can determine the Proving the credibility of the
information needed from any sources if we will be figuring announcement you have read
announcements on social it out on its official website in social media by browsing
media such as Facebook, either on Facebook or on other legit resources and
Twitter, Instagram, etc. their official website. authorized person to ask.

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STAGES AND ELEMENTS

Analyzing and evaluating Organizing, storing, or Creating and

the quality of archiving information. communicating new
information. Organizing the requirements knowledge.
Comparing the first needed for applying, storing You can possibly create and
information you gather from your application forms in communicate new
the other information. computers, flash drive, knowledge from your own
mobile phones, software like experience to help others.
Google drive.

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STAGES AND ELEMENTS
Using information in an ethical, efficient, and effective way.

ETHICAL – in a way you EFFICIENT – in a way you EFFECTIVE – in a way you

read the steps as well as can accomplish your have already did an ethical
terms and policy application forms and successful way of
agreement before accurately and early applying online
applying and placing your before the deadline. registration.
personal information
online.

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SOURCE OF INFORMATION

A Primary source A Secondary source A Tertiary source of

of information is of information is information consists
material that has of secondary sources,
first-person,
been taken from such as books and
original primary sources and articles that have
information then synthesized. been gathered in an
index or database.
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EVALUATING INFORMATION
• Accuracy refers to the trustworthiness of a source.
• Authority refers to the credibility of the source’s
author.
• Currency refers to how recent the information in a
source is.
• Objectivity has to do with whether the information is
presented in a fair.
• Relevance considers the importance of the
information for your research needs.
ORGANIZING INFORMATION
• Location is important when the information has multiple different sources and
locales.
• Time arranges the information in the order that the company opened each location.
• Category when the information needs to be sorted by similarity or relatedness.
• Hierarchy is useful when showing how one piece of information is connected to
another in order of importance or rank.
• Alphabetical Arrangement works well when people know specific terms and topics
they are looking for.
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Reference:
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Information Literacy

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