### skill | literacy:

Information literacy
* competency needed by all.
* concept that has emerged to describe the task ahead.
* critical component in the education of students.
* encompasses computer literacy.
* forms the basis for life long learning
  - lifelong learning
* includes the skills needed to find, evaluate, and communicate information.
* includes, but goes beyond, information technology skills.
* involves critical thinking
  - the ability to find, evaluate, and critically review material
* is an essential skill for the office of citizen
  - important skill for students to acquire
  - increasingly important skill for everyone
  - another dimension of the digital divide
  - central to lifelong learning
  - critical in today's society
  - crucial in all three types of learning situations
  - essential to knowing how to learn
  - important to a liberal education
  - knowing how to find, analyze, and use information
  - more than computer literacy
  - part of the reasoning process
  - recognized as a critical life skill
* is seen as building up a personal knowledge base in a new area of interest
  - controlling information
  - using information wisely for the benefit of others
* is synonymous with knowing how to leam
  - the ability to access, interpret and respond to information
* is the ability to find and use appropriate information for a specific purpose
  - use information effectively
  - information, evaluate it, and use it effectively
  - find, evaluate and use information
  - identify, locate and analyze information in any format
  - retrieve, manage, evaluate, and distribute information
  - glue that binds many contents areas together
  - keystone of lifelong learning
  - new keyword in higher education
  - skill of finding, evaluating and using information efficiently
  - term being applied to the skills of information problem-solving
  - to learning as yeast is to bread
* key component of, and contributor to, lifelong learning.
* living literacy, needed for even basic operation in a wired society.
* pervades all learning.
* process applicable to all content areas.
* requires that students become judicious users of information
  - the critical evaluation of information

Legal literacy
* critical strategy in helping women recognize and advocate for their rights.
* extends beyond awareness of laws.
* is about making the law understandable and more accessible to ordinary people
  - low among both rural and urban-based women regardless of status and class

Low literacy
* has high cost consequences for society.
* is closely related to unemployment, poverty and crime
  - the socio-economic factor prison inmates have most in common
* limits life chances, regardless of how it is defined or measured
  - opportunities, resources, and the control which people have over their lives
* weakens communities and undermines the nation.

### skill | literacy:

Media literacy
* basic competency in today's world.
* can increase our enjoyment of media
  - make a passive relationship active
* concept that encourages inquiry about media.
* gives children the tools needed to interact successfully with media.
* is about being smarter than the advertisers
  - an essential part of exposing the consumerist goals underlying media content
  - associated with critical media initiatives
  - concerned with the process of understanding and using the mass media
  - education for social empowerment
  - known by a variety of names
  - necessary for responsible citizenship in a democratic society
* is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages
  - find, understand, and create media messages
  - successfully understand and utilize different forms of media
  - understand and evaluate all the symbol systems of a society
  - teaching of both the 'reading' and 'writing' of the mainstream media
* promotes more active citizenship
  - the practice of comparing the structure and motivation of different media