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DEBATE TIME! IS INFORMATION LITERACY A FAD AND A WASTE OF TIME? Information literacy   involves recognizing when information is needed and being able to efficiently locate, accurately evaluate, effectively use, and clearly communicate information in various formats. For me, it is not a fad and a waste of time because why is it a waste of time when you gain information and knowledge? In our life, we have to keep on learning and experiencing something new. That's how we will grow and survive in this world. Both teams defended their side very well. The affirmative team said that, yes, it is a waste of time because you have your common sense. All started with common sense. As one of the opposing team, I get their point that it all started with common sense. Because how can you learn something if you dont have common sense, right? However, I still believe that yes, we have common sense, but it should not limit ourselves in gaining and learning more informations. And we...

FACIAL MESSAGE RELAY The objective of this game is to pass on the correct message to the last person in line. Our class was divided into three groups.  Mechanics of the game:  The value of each facial gesture is as follows: a) Raising the eyebrows = 1,000 b) Nose movement = 100 c) Kiss motion = 10 d) Wink  = 1 Instruct the first people in the line to relay a certain numerical value using the designated facial gestures only. For instance, if the value is 1,295, the participants must relay 1 raising the eyebrows, 2 nose movements, 9 kissing motions, and 5 winks. Each participant must face away from the first person in each line. Once a person has been tapped, he/she must focus on the facial message relayed, and pass it on to the next person. Once the message has been successfully passed to the last person in line, the last person will write the value on a piece of paper. The teams to ...

TRADITIONAL MEDIA VS. NEW MEDIA & CONTROLLED MEDIA VS. FREE MEDIA THE FIRST DEBATE When Sir Haren, our Media and Information Literacy teacher, divided our class into 4 teams. He told us to prepare for debate: Traditional Media vs. New Media & Controlled Media vs. Free Media. Then this thought pop up in my mind: Why do we still have the traditional media and new media debate? In my own opinion, it's obvious that the new media will win. Why? because in the current age of technological advances, it seems that traditional media is facing competition from ever-expanding new forms of media. Nowadays, people can easily communicate and gain information by more kinds of media tools such as mobile phones and computers because of the development of technology.  That's what I thought.  I remembered someone from the Traditional Media team when the debate started, he said that "Traditional media started it all. Without it, there will be no New Media...