Lesson 11 CYBER - DIGITAL - LITERACY
Lesson 11 CYBER - DIGITAL - LITERACY
Lesson 11 CYBER - DIGITAL - LITERACY
Introduction:
In the twenty-first century, literacy skills increasingly reflect technology use and
the abilities necessary to problem-solve, collaborate, and present information through
multimedia (Pilgrim, 2013).
Digital literacy involves more than the mere ability to use software or operate a
digital device; it includes a large variety of complex cognitive, motor, sociological, and
emotional skills, which users need in order to function effectively in digital
environments. The tasks required in this context include, for example, “reading”
instructions from graphical displays in user interfaces; using digital reproduction to
create new, meaningful materials from existing ones; constructing knowledge from a
nonlinear, hypertextual navigation;evaluating the quality and validity of information;
and have amature and realistic understanding of the “rules” that prevail in the
cyberspace (Eshet-Alkalai, 2004).
However, it is the so-called old literaciess that will serve us just as faithfully in the
new contexts we find ourselves today as they have done in the past. To begin our
investigation, we must first understand the relationship between Media Literacy and
Cyber/Digital Literacy (Alata, et al, 2020).
Preliminary Questions:
* How does media affect the lives of people nowadays?
* Is it necessary to be digitally literate? Why?
I. CAPTIVATE
In its simplest terms, media literacy builds upon the foundation of traditional
literacy and offers new forms of reading and writing. Media literacy empowers people
to be critical thinkers and makers, effective communicators and active citizens
(https://namle.net/publications/media-literacy-definitions/).
The term “media literacy” is often used interchangeably with other terms related
to media and media technologies. To clarify the meaning of media literacy,
NAMLE offers these definitions:
o Media refers to all electronic or digital means and print or artistic visuals used to
transmit messages.
o Literacy is the ability to encode and decode symbols and to synthesize and
analyze messages.
o Media literacy is the ability to encode and decode the symbols transmitted via
media and the ability to synthesize, analyze and produce mediated messages.
o Media education is the study of media, including ‘hands on’ experiences and
media production.
o Media literacy education is the educational field dedicated to teaching the skills
associated with media literacy.
1. To guide your exploration of the media that surround you, the Center for
Media Literacy developed these five core concepts
(https://yali.state.gov/media-literacy-five-core-concepts/):
By considering the core concepts behind every media message, you equip
yourself with an ability to analyze and interpret a message — and to accept or
reject its legitimacy.
2. Challenges to Media Literacy Education
a. The school and the family share the responsibility of preparing the young
person for living in a world of powerful images, words and sounds. Children and
adults need to be literate in all three of these symbolic systems, and this will
require some reassessment of educational priorities
(https://www.medialit.org/reading-room/challenge-media-education-grunwald-
document).
b. Competent authorities must:
B. DIGITAL LITERACY the ability to read and interpret media (text, sound, images),
to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and
apply new knowledge gained from digital environments” (Jones-Kavalier &
Flannigan,2008).
4. DIGITAL LEARNERS
Rapetti and Cantoni (2010) coined a new term “Learners of Digital Era” (LoDE)
and suggest that age is not the sole factor to be considered. The LoDE perspective
is summarized by the following four facets:
a) focuses on “learners” rather than “persons”, who should realize the possibilities
and potentials
of digital technologies in their environments and recognize the value of
technology and the opportunity it presents the learner in his/her daily life;
b) argues that learners are not merely users or consumers of technology;
c) highlights the complexities of learner’s technology experiences;
d) rejects the generational boundary and any chronological generations that
exclude other types of actors who share similar practices (accept all learners);
e) does not assume any pre-defined learner characteristics; and
f) adopts a socio-cultural, anthropological, communicational and pedagogical
approach from the learners’ perspective.
III. COLLABORATE
Ponder on these questions. Then, share your points of view or expertise with
your classmates via Zoom or Googlemeet.
1. Do I know how to write and send e-mails; create documents and simple
spreadsheeets, use a web browser, and make sense of the search result returned by
the search engine?
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3. Do I have the ability to understand videoclips, vlogs, online advertisements,
and even animations and the like?
IV. CREATE
2. Choose a topic of your own preference. Look for a video clip that best supports the
significant details of the topic.
a. Attach the link
b. Critique the video based on the following:
* What is the message?
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* What are the values have you clarified?
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* What persona experiences can you relate?
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* How does it impact your way of life?
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V. ASSIGNMENT
* Watch a TED Talk online on a topic that is completely new to you. Create a
mind map of the speakers’ lecture, using only what you have understood from the
video. Then, ask yourself the following questions:
a. How many times do I have to watch the video? Why?
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1) Alata, Elen Joy & Ignacio, Elgen John (2020). Building & Enhancing New
Literacies Across the Curriculum. Cubao, Quezon City: Lorimar Publishing, Inc.
6) https://teaching.uncc.edu/sites/teaching.uncc.edu/files/media/article-
books/InformationLiteracy.pdf
7)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318508429_Digital_Literacy_for_the_21st_Cent
ury