MIL - Media and Information Literacy Reviewer PDF

MIL - Media And Information Literacy \- The essential skills and competencies that allow individuals to engage with media and other information providers, as well as develop critical thinking and life-long learning skills to socialize and become active citizens. - Communicatio...

MIL - Media And Information Literacy \- The essential skills and competencies that allow individuals to engage with media and other information providers, as well as develop critical thinking and life-long learning skills to socialize and become active citizens. - Communication is from the Latin term COMMUNICARE, which means "to share" or "to divide out." \- Latin word communis means "working together" I. Humans are social beings. II. Communication is a natural and inescapable fact of life. - Media \- Plural form of "medium" It also refers to any physical object used to communicate messages. \- helps us spread information in different forms and devices. \- Information and communication goes hand in hand with media, because these concepts are at the core of what media actually is. - Literacy \- The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. \- The term literate is defined as being well-versed in a particular subject, letter, erudite, conversant, informed, widely-read, enlightened or well-grounded. - Functional Literacy \- The classic or conventional literacies of learning how to read, to write, and to perform numeric calculations and operations - Media Literacy \- The ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms. \- It aims to empower citizens by providing them with the competencies necessary to engage with traditional media and new technologies. - Information \- A broad term that covers processed data, knowledge, experience, instruction, signals or symbols. - Information Literacy \- The ability to recognize when information is needed, and to locate, evaluate and effectively communicate information in its various formats. - Technology \- Deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science. - Technology Literacy \- The ability of an individual to responsibly, appropriately, and effectively use technological tools. - Computer Literacy \- The set of skills, attitudes and knowledge necessary to understand and operate the basic functions of information and communication technologies including devices and tools I. Hardware literacy II. Software literacy - The Evolution Of Media I. Pre-industrial Age II. Industrial Age III. Electronic Age IV. Information Age 1. Pre-industrial Age (before 1700s) \- People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper, and iron. i. Cave painting (35,000bc) \- It was discovered in Southern France \- Show evidence of symbols etched on the walls ii. Clay tablets (2400bc) -Were found to have some form of symbolic expressions that make up ancient language \- The most important discovery of such is the Code Of Hammurabi dating back to 1772 BCE. \- It contains written laws and codes of Babylonian king named Hammurabi who ruled during those times iii. Papyrus (2500bc) \- Discovered by ancient Egyptians This eventually led to the advent of paper iv. Acta diurna (130bc) \- Daily roman official notices, A sort of daily gazette \- Daily acts or daily public records v. Dibao (2nd century) \- Earliest and oldest newspaper in the world vi. Woodblocks printing press (220ad) \- It was developed when Chinese and Korean crafts people "wrote" letters on textile or paper using letters carved onto wood blocks. - Movable Type of Printing Press by German Goldsmith Johann Gutenberg 2. Industrial Age (1700-1930s) \- People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products. I. Newspaper- London Gazette (1640) II. Typewriter (1800) III. Daguerreotype System (1839) IV. Telegraph (1844) V. Telephone (1876) VI. Phonograph (1877) VII. Gramophone System VIII. Kinetoscope IX. Celluloid Film And Kodak Camera (1888) X. Cinematographe XI. Motion Picture Photography/Projection (1890) XII. Commercial Motion Pictures (1913) XIII. Motion Pictures With Sound (1926) XIV. Television - Daguerreotype System \- Frenchman Louis Daguerre \- Somehow, he ushered what we know now photography - Celluloid Film & Kodak Camera \- Invented by George Eastman \- Making photography accessible to the masses in 1888. - Telegraph By Samuel Morse \- The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. - Telephone \- It was invented by Alexander Grahambell in 1876 - Phonograph \- Was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 \- A device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound \- Phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound - Gramophone \- It was invented by Emile Berliner in 1887 \- It played back music recorded on flat discs or records - Kinetoscope \- A single viewer film system invented by Thomas Edison - Cinematographe \- It was invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere\ - Had the capacity of a film projector to project the film onto a big screen - Motion Picture/Projection 1890 \- Also called film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected on rapid succession onto screen by means of light. 3. ELECTRONIC AGE (1930s-1980s) \- People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. \- In this age, long distance communication became more efficient. I. Transistor radio \- A small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry.. II. Television (1941) III. Large electronic computers \- EDSAC (1949) \- Electronic delay storage automatic calculator \- An early British computer considered to be the first stored program electronic computer IV. UNIVAC 1 (1951) \- Universal automatic computer \- A line of electronic digital stored-program computers V. Mainframe computers \- IBM 704 \- The first mass-produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware. VI. Personal computers VII. Ohp, lcd projectors 4. INFORMATION AGE (1900s-2000s) \- The internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network. \- Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. I. Web browsers \- A web browser is a software application for accessing information on the world wide web. II. Blogs \- A blog is a discussion or informational website published on the world wide web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries. III. Social networks \- A dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc. IV. Microblogs \- A social media site to which a user makes short, frequent posts. Video V. Augmented reality/virtual reality \- An enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device (such as a smartphone camera) \- is a computer-generated simulation in which a person can interact within an artificial 3D environment using electronic devices, such as special goggles with a screen or gloves fitted with sensors. VI. Videochat VII. Search Engines VIII. Portable Computers IX. Smartphones X. Wearable Technology \- Also known as \"wearables\", is a category of electronic devices that can be worn as accessories - PRINT MEDIA \- Media consisting of paper and ink, reproduced in a printing process that is traditional or mechanical. \- Also known as the PRESS - BROADCAST MEDIA \- Refers to media such as radio and television that reach target audiences using airwaves as the transmission medium \- They are considered as "household media" -. NEW MEDIA \- Contents are organized and distributed on digital platforms \- New media is used to describe content made available using different forms of electronic communication made possible through the use of computer technology. Blogs Virtual Reality Social Media Online Newspapers Digital Games - MEDIA CONVERGENCE \- Converge means meeting at a point, it is synonymous to the words: join, unite, intersect, merge, connect and coincide \- It allows media texts to be produced and distributed on multiple media devices. \- It is the ability to transform different kinds of media into digital code, which is then accessible by a range of devices. \- The co-existence of traditional and new media.