The Value Of Being A Media & Information Literate Individual
Media & Information Literacy Recognizes The Primary Role f Media & Information In Our Everyday Lives.The Purpose Of Information & Media Literate Is To Engage In A Digital Society; One Needs To Be Able To Use,Understand,Inquire,Create,Communicate And Think Critically. It Is Important To Have Capacity To Effectively Access,Organize,Evaluate, And Create Messages In A Variety Of Forms.Information & Media Literacy Enables People To Interpret And Make Informed Judgement As Users Of Information & Media As Well As To Become Skillful Creators & Producers Of Information & Media Messages In Their Own Right.
To Become A Media Literate Is Not To Memorize Facts Or Statistics About The Media But Rather To Learn,To Raise The Right Questions About What You Are Watching,Reading,Or Listening To And To Be Information Literate A Person Must Be Able To Recognize When Information Is Needed & Have The Ability To Locate,Evaluate,And Use Effectively The Needed Information.Students Are No Longer Limited To The Desktop Computer.Students Use Mobile Technologies To Graph A Mathematical Problem,Research A Question For Social Studies,Text Message An Expert For Information As Well As Send Homework To A Drop Box.Media & Information Literacy Therefore Is About Helping Students Become Competent, Critical, And Literate In All Media Forms So That They Control The Interpretation Of What They See Or Hear Rather Than Letting The Interpretation Control Them.
