MEDIA LITERACY MATTERS
Functional and Critical Skills for a Digital World
ABOUT
The New Normal
Knowing how to read and write is not enough anymore. The paradigm shift in learning and education has already started. Literacy in the digital age is a set of skills, knowledge and practices that allow people to access, critically evaluate and use, and create variable media and content. Media, Information and News Literacy is a new approach to education and participation in knowledge by focusing on learning; developing creative and critical skills rather than accumulating information; aiming to increase understanding of the role, operation and impact of media on the construction of social reality; strengthening democratic civic engagement and self-expression in a digital world.
CAPACITY BUILDING
Functional and Critical Skills
CRITICAL SKILLS
What Things Are About
What things are about
How to do things
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
MEDIA SKILLS
How to communicate
DIGITAL SKILLS
How to do things
THE NEW LITERACIES
"The 21st century approach to education provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with 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." (Centerl for Media Literacy, 2016)
Media Literacy
"Information Literacy encompasses knowledge of one's information concerns and needs, and the ability to identify, locate, evaluate, organize and effectively create, use and communicate information to address issues or problems at hand; it is a prerequisite for participating effectively in the Information Society, and is part of the basic human right of life long learning" (UNESCO, 2003)
Information Literacy
Skills required for responsible local and global citizenship help us develop critical thinking skills in order to judge the reliability of content on any medium, by sorting overwhelming amounts of information, checking source authenticity, balancing speed and accuracy, recognizing misinformation, managing biases when accessing content on the Internet and Social Media (Stony Brook University)
News Literacy
Ability to define, access, manage, integrate, communicate, evaluate and create information safely and appropriately through digital technologies and networked devices for participation in economic and social life (UNESCO, 2018)
“The full potential of the Internet remains untapped, especially for low-income and less educated users.” (ITU Society Report, 2018)
Digital Literacy
