MYP Personal Project 2019-2020

Information literacy skills

Media Literacy Skills

• Use a wide range of sources and types of sources

• Selects resources deliberately

• Collect, record and verify data

• Make connections between various sources of information

• Collect and analyse data to identify solutions and make informed decisions

• Process data and report results

• Evaluate and select information sources based on their appropriateness

• Use critical literacy skills to analyse and interpret media communications

• Understand and implement intellectual property rights

• Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct a bibliography according to recognized conventions

• Identify primary and secondary sources

• Evaluates a source using the CRAAP test (Currency, Relevance Authority Accuracy Purpose)

• Uses consistent and proper citations (Harvard)

• Locate, organize, analyse, evaluate, synthesize and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media (including digital social media and online networks)

• Understand the impact of media representations and modes of presentation

• Seek a range of perspectives from multiple and varied sources

• Compare, contrast and draw connections among (multi) media resources