Lesson 1 & 2 Flashcards
- The plural of medium;
- broadly describes all channels of communication;
- from printed paper to digital data.
Media
It is the raw material that fuels our decision-making, enables us to learn and grow, and helps us to communicate with one another. The building block of knowledge.
Information
The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.
Literacy
Describes a set of abilities that enables an individual to acquire, evaluate, and use information.
Information Literacy
The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create, using all forms of communication.
Media Literacy
Empowers people to think critically about information and use of digital tools.
Media and Information Literacy
The ability of an individual to responsibly and effectively use technological tools to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create, and communicate information.
Technology Literacy
People or groups of people imparting or exchanging messages through speaking, writing, gestures, or even using symbolic forms.
Communication
It is defined as an event or set of events that prompted a different course in history.
Turning Points
Refers to the time before machines were introduced to produce goods on a large scale.
Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)
Rock/cave paintings
Pictographs
Rock carvings
Petroglyphs
“wedge-shaped”
People wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet. It was done by the Ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia.
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
What is the definition of the Greek word, “hieros”?
Sacred
Hieroglyphics
What is the definition of the Greek word, “gluptien”?
Carved in stone
An official acquittance certificate inscribed onto a copper plate A.D. 900. Earliest known calendar-dated document found within the Philippine Islands.
Laguna Copperplate Inscription
Where was the Laguna Copperplate Inscription found?
Lumban, Laguna
One of the Philippines’ precolonial writing system
Baybayin
What is the definition of “baybay”?
To spell
Crafting cloth sheets to record their drawings and writings.
Silk papers in China (2,000 years ago)
Mixture of mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into pulp, pressed out the liquid and hung the thin mat to dry in the sun. Created in in Lei-Yang, China.
First invention of papers
The writing material of ancient times and also the plant from which it was derived, Cyperus papyrus.
Papyrus
Enabling widespread publishing of a variety of texts, and the dissemination of knowledge and literacy.
Woodblock Printing
Tang (618-906) and Song (960-1279) Dynasties
The movable metal type printing machine, that allowed for easier publication, was invented by whom?
Johann Gutenburg (1394-1460)
