Course Description:
The Media and Information Literacy (Enhancing Education through effective Communication) is specifically designed for senior high school students in order for them to understand the key concepts of media and information and use them to effectively communicate and access information using the technology on hand.
This book aims to develop the critical thinking skills of the students by acquiring the appropriate knowledge in media and information literacy. Learning and developing these skills will guide the students on how they can become responsible users of different forms of media.
This module also focuses on enhancing the student’s technology literacy skills so that they can become competent producers of media and information in the future. It will introduce the students as well as the educators to the different sources of media and information and how they can be utilized to access useful information efficiently. The characteristics of different forms of media and how they are designed and produced to provide relevant information will be discussed thoroughly in this book. In addition, the students will learn how to evaluate and rate the output of the different media platforms’ measure the students' learning abilities, each lesson provides a variety of activities to gauge their understanding and insight about media and information literacy. These activities will also give students the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills by creating samples of different media platforms.
