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18 Jun 07

ALA | Intro to Info Lit

  • Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information.
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  • “Ultimately, information literate people are those who have learned how to learn. They know how to learn because they know how knowledge is organized, how to find information, and how to use information in such a way that others can learn from them. They are people prepared for lifelong learning, because they can always find the information needed for any task or decision at hand.”
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Cable in the Classroom - I. What is Media Literacy?

  • Access: Knowing how to search for and find relevant information, whether online or on a library shelf.

    Understand: Knowing how to decode and make sense of the way information is presented, whether reading text or "reading" the multimedia content of a Web page.

    Analyze: Examining the content to ascertain purpose, point of view, validity, and reliability.

    Evaluate: Determining the value of the content for you and for others.

    Create: Producing your own media messages, from letters to signs to videos and PowerPoint presentations, to Web pages and cell phone text messages.
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14 Jun 07

Media Literacy: A Definition... and More

  • Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms.
  • Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy.
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