Media and Information Literacy: Agosto 2018

Activity 4: Media and Information Sources

REFLECTION

I’ve learned many things about codes and conventions in media. The Philippines uses enthused postcards as media by means of highlighting different beautiful and spectacular sights in our country. Some of these are the Caramoan Islands in Bicol, Chocolate Hills in Bohol, Banaue Rice Terraces etc.,. These postcards includes quotes and good saying about the country. In general, our country is picturize as a natural and beautiful country in most postcards.

If I were given the chance to create a postcard of a particular place or organization. I will collect pictures as my symbolic code that will concretely show the different cultures and traditions of our country. With the use of hi-tech graphic application software and beautiful sceneries that is only here in the Philippines will serve as my technical and symbolic codes respectively. Through the use of codes I can deliver the important and good information about our country.

Conventions are the generally accepted ways of doing something. There are general conventions in any medium, such as the use of interviewee quotes in a print article, but conventions are also genre specific. Codes and conventions are used together in any study of genre – it is not enough to discuss a technical code used such as camera work, without saying how it is conventionally used in a genre. Working all in all together makes the information more informative

I’ve realized that there are many way to make information more informative. That is with the use of technical and symbolic information. These give the text meaning and determine the response of the viewer. They can be used as a basis for simple text analysis.

Activity 2: Information Literate Individual

IMPORTANCE OF IMPORMATION LITERACY

Information literacy take a big role in the understanding development of the 21^st century learners. Especially nowadays, where information is reachable whether they are using a computer or a smartphone with internet connectivity. Information is a process of adding direct or indirect knowledge through personal experience or someone else’s experience. Students should be able to show skills to use the information based on their needs. Information literacy gives an understanding and set of abilities which enabling each individuals to recognize information and have the capacity to locate, use, and evaluate the information needed.

Today, students live in an information society where information is essential for personal, organizational, national and societal success. To become successful in the future, student should become information literate people. It enables people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information. Focuses on analysis and the delivery of information through varies means of media.

The implementation of K-12 curriculum and inclusion of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) would be a great help for us students. Its purpose is to prepare us to become engage in the digital environment. One needs to understand, inquire, create, communicate and think critically.