Topic outline
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The importance of being a media and information literate person is crucial nowadays, in a 21st century which challenges us with rapid growth of technologies.
This course consists of 5 modules. We invite you to introduce yourself, go through the course materials at your own pace and take the assessments at your convenience. After completing all the steps, you can download your course completion certificate.
We wish you happy learning!
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Click above to read and download the Moodle Practical Guide for Learners and Trainers.
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Welcome to the first discussion forum of our "Media and Information Literacy" online course.
Take a minute to introduce yourself to your trainers and peers.
Task 1. Answer to at least two of your colleagues' posts. Click the Reply button to enter your response.
Task 2. Create a new discussion topic to introduce yourself. Click the Add a new discussion topic button to post to discussion. Write your name and country in the Subject.
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Upon completing of the module, you will be able to:
- Understand media content and its uses
- Explain the role and functions of media in democratic societies
- Describe how communication is affected by media and information
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Objectives:
- Identify media around you
- Structure the content and ideas
- Give feedback
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Task 1: Start a discussion to share your media habits, lifestyles and preferences with your classmates.
Task 2: Reply twice to answer to at least two of your colleagues' posts.
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Receive a grade Receive a passing grade
- Gain your first Badge "Initiator"
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Upon completing of the module, you will be able to:
- Identify sources of information
- Define information need
- Determine the accuracy of content
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You are going to open a money-saving account. Share with your colleagues the main sources of information that you are going to use.
Objectives:
- Identify the right information for your task
- Structure the content and ideas
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Task 1: Start a discussion to share what you already know about opening a money saving account and tell us what you want to know about this topic.
Task 2: Reply twice to at least two of your colleagues' posts to suggest them solutions.
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Receive a grade Receive a passing grade
- Gain your second Badge "Explorer"
- Gain your second Badge "Explorer"
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Upon completing of the module, you will be able to:
- Access information effectively and efficiently
- Understand the key concept that media have social and political implications
- Understand the idea that media products may have both explicit and implicit messages
- Identify implicit messages in a media text
- Put into practice the understanding of the intellectual property
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You are looking at the poster advertising GotMilk (https://www.gotmilk.com/). The explicit message is obvious. Is this the only message? Of course not. Which might be the implicit message?
Objectives:
- Identify implicit messages in a media text
- Structure the content and ideas
- Give feedback
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Receive a grade Receive a passing grade
- Gain your third Badge "Researcher"
Gain your third Badge "Researcher"
- Gain your third Badge "Researcher"
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Upon completing of the module, you will be able to:
- Understand how media messages are constructed
- Deconstruct media messages
- Produce media and information content
- Comprehend how manipulative information and media is /are formally and informally produced, organized, and disseminated
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You are required to create an advertisement for your college/ school/ university. Promote it using what you have learnt and upload it for your colleagues in the forum.
Objectives:
- Product media and information content
- Structure the content and ideas
- Give feedback
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Task 1: Start a discussion to share your media advertisement via the forum.
Task 2: Reply twice to answer to at least two of your colleagues' posts.
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Receive a grade Receive a passing grade
- Gain your fourth Badge "Expert"
- Gain your fourth Badge "Expert"
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Upon completing of the module, you will be able to:
- Describe the different dimensions of media and information
- Evaluate the reliability and validity of manipulatives media and information and its sources
- Assess information sources against reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness, and Points of view or biases among several evaluation criteria
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Objectives:
- Evaluate a webpage
- Give feedback
Look carefully at the website.
Source: (Goodwill, 2020)
Analyze each part and then answer the following questions:
- Are there any funny or exciting things? Why is it entertainment?
- How is the website educational? Does it use good evidence to support its claims?
- What is advertising?
- Do they want to persuade? Who created it? How do you know? Why do you think it is persuasive?
- Is there a main scope of the website? Which one?
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Task 1: Start a discussion to share your understanding about using CRAAP criteria to evaluate a webpage.
Task 2: Reply twice to answer to at least two of your colleagues' posts.
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Receive a grade Receive a passing grade
- Gain your fifth Badge "Maestro"
- Gain your fifth Badge "Maestro"
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You have reached the end of the course.
Congratulations for going through all the online course modules!
The link "Download your certificate for the Media and Information Literacy course" will be available upon completing all the tasks listed below.
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Acknowledgement. This learning material has received funding from the European Commission under the ERASMUS+ Grant Agreement 2019-3-RO01-KA205-078053, “Strategic partnership to develop open educational resources for teaching digital citizenship - DIGCIT”.
Disclaimer. The European Commission's support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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