The Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) is pleased to present a draft of its new Framework for living and thriving in an information society. This draws from real life examples provided by sector representatives from the Information Literacy Group (ILG) at CILIP.
The purpose of the Framework is to demonstrate what media and information literacy means for people in everyday life and in various recognisable settings. It thus seeks to make media and information literacy understandable by relating it to situations with which everyone can readily identify. To do this, the framework identifies five lifelong aspirations:
- be informed
- be empowered
- be healthy
- be socially conscious
- be connected
The Framework is intended for all of us (whatever our walk of life, interest or need for information) to reflect on how we get the most out of the information that we encounter, use and create; and how to reach decisions about the nature, relevance, usefulness and quality of such information, in the context of the five aspirations. The Framework may be viewed and downloaded below.
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