Help keep flame wars under control

By: Shierlynne Besares

Meaning

It means to settle the conflict or misunderstanding between two or more person. You must serve as a mediator.

Example

My friend posted her picture online. And one of my friend commented on that photo. But my friend who posted the photo reacted to my friend who posted a comment. And then the conflict between them started. As a media literate individual, I will help them to settle their misunderstanding.

Value of Being Media and Information Literate Individual

By: Shierlynne Besares

   According to Ian Selinsky, “Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive”. Being literate individual mean able to read and write, has a competency to understand things, and applied everything they learned in their daily lives. While a media and information literate individual are those who has the ability to understand different types of media and can evaluate a certain information and use it effectively. Hence, why does being a media and information literate individual is important?

          Nowadays, there are so many cases of scamming especially in social media like facebook, twitter, instagram and more. Here are some examples of top online scams used by cyber criminals, stated by Cristina Chipunci. First and the most popular scam is the money laundering which starts into an emotional message wherein they will disguise as a government official or a businessman who will ask help in retrieving a large sum money from bank and in return, they promise to give a large sum of money. But that was just a promise. Another one is the romance scams, especially male scammers who will send a romantic message to have the attention of the female victim and then their conversations lead into a romantic one, the scammer will set a place for meeting up the victim and she will be kidnapped and ask money from the family. So, to avoid scamming, we have to be a media and information individual. Because if we are literate one, we could analyze and determine which media is reliable and which information is true of not. Further value of being a media and information literate person is to keep away from being victim and to victim others in form of cyber bullying. And teenagers are mostly involved that lead into suicide. So, in every like, reactions, comments, messages of post we are going to make, we must think over and over and ask ourselves. “Is it okay”, “what if I could hurt his/her feelings?”. Yes, we have to be sensitive when it comes to their feelings and we must comprehend the information so that we know what we are going to do. Remember “be kind to others”, and of course for ourselves, to avoid cyber bullying let’s just ignore malicious messages and block that person.

      Therefore, we as an individual must know our limitations in using social media. Of course, don’t let social media as a reason in harming others life and also yours. And if you think that you are totally a media and information literate individual, share all your knowledge of learning’s through teaching or starting a campaign which many people will be aware in using any form of media and understand the real value of being a literate on.

Fairness

by: Arlanza, Glory Be M.

          One plus one is equal to two. This is the way on how we recognize the number, but how the number relate on ourselves. Many people have a doubt of why the situation is not all about the alignment of our lines. Base in the measurement of weight of individual are not totally the same, it has their own decimal points will consider as complex. But why the one plus one is equal to two relates to this topic so-called fairness?

            I am just focusing on the social and mental interaction where the people cannot live without others. Many people said that no one in an island so that we might concerning on our ability. The people we met every day are part of our life as a living being. And by using our mind there have a judgement, the way we think about others can give conflict. One day, I saw a man who’s seating in a bench while reading a book then there has a man who came where he is, and a man that have a book looking at him, stand out and leave because a man that have a book saw the guy who’s seating near to him is not having an appropriate outfit (pauper). If we talk about society it’s a very sensitive issue where we are mostly affected, especially to those feminist group and LGBT advocacy that promote equality on the Philippines. They are having an organizational work through the implementation of it to our country, one of their objective in that kind of empowerment is the society development but not totally believing that it has not included the 3rd gender or the same sex marriage. When I heard that subject into ABS-CBN news, President Duterte don’t want to declare it because he believes that God created a man and woman where there have only 2 genders which are the male and female. Yes. So, the aspect like spirituality is most higher than the happiness in applying worldly deeds. It causes more damage if we have that subject. As of now, our country not included to the percentage of countries implementing the equality or the gender equality.

            Even were not having a declaration of gender equality, we must respect others on what they are. Because some of them are not supposedly good or understandable about the society. Instead we are the hope by helping to make them good enough. In one plus one is equal to two is about human can help human, the body will help another body to be equal in any aspects even though it has no implementation and declaration to be a law.

Venn Diagram ( Differences and Similarities of Media, Information and Technology Literacy)

by: Shierlynne Besares, Lorelyn Zaragosa, Jean Jover

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