What is MEDIA?
Media is a form of interactions towards other people and this has been a past time for youths. It is a form of interaction because media makes it easier for them to connect with their relatives and overseas families. Unlike in the past it is hard for us to communicate with our family overseas because media and technologies hasn’t been invented yet. Instead of using media, people used to send letters to their relatives who are in abroad which took either weeks or months before they receive it. Over years it has been a form of communication. We can meet other people in different countries and befriended them.
The most popular kind of media was social media. Wherein people likes to update their posts on applications like facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. They like to share the things that they have and likes to update people on what they are doing. Social media is a way of socializing with other people in different parts of the world. Many people are willing to get know you. Social media makes the world looks smaller.
Media has been way of entertainment for people especially youths which means this has been their past time. Mostly they entertain their self with media whenever they get bored and youth tend to express their feelings and ideas through media. This simple things makes some of them happy. Media also provides you updates about our society and news that are related with celebrities, politics, economy, etc.
Media and information literacy is extremely important for youth in a way that they can learn the most basic on using media, because today’s generation are more likely involved with technologies. This subject may help them to gain more experiences and knowledge about medias. Media and Information Literacy develops their creativeness and critical thinking through the use of technologies. With this subject they will be able to compromise their skills and knowledge about medias and it's histories. Now that students from now has no idea where the origin of media came from and where did it started.
Let's talk about the disadvantages of medias to the youths today. Medias are not safe to use when it comes to sharing your personal information. There are people who have bad intentions to others. Media is unsafe because there are people who makes dummy accounts which they use for black mailings, stalkings, bashings, etc. They may use your identity anytime if your personal informations are not in privacy. If you are asking if how will they get your personal identity? They get it through the use of hacking, in which they hack your account and if ever they see something interesting about you like wealth. They can also use your family as a way to destroy your life.
Tips on how to improve on Media and Literacy
- A student should listen very well to his/her teacher.
- He/she should participate in any group projects or outputs that the teacher may gave.
- Understand the lesson .
- Master every activities that your teacher gave because you may use it in the future.
- The student should enjoy his/her teacher's presence so that he/she would love the subject.
- Do your best in every activities and share your experiences to the class.
- Lastly, apply your learnings to the real world and share them to other people.
