Personal reflection (WEEK 7)

This week MLC class very intersting compare with last week. Lecturer use a very intersting way to choose the students give their opinion. haha...

Critical reflection 2 (WEEK 7)

According to the John Naisbitt, Megatrends’s srticle. He show 10 benefit of Media Literacy Education

1. Meets the needs of FCM students to be wise consumers of media, managers of information and responsible producers of their ideas using the powerful multimedia tools of a global media culture.

2. Engages students. . . bringing the world of media into the classroom connects learning with "real life" and validates their media culture as a rich environment for learning.

3. Gives students and lecturers alike a common approach to critical thinking that, when internalized, becomes second nature for life.

4. Provides an opportunity for integrating all subject areas and creating a common vocabulary that applies across all disciplines.

5. Helps meet state standards while, at the same time using fresh contemporary media content which FCM students love.

6. Increases the ability and proficiency of FCM students to communicate (express) and disseminate their thoughts and ideas in a wide (and growing) range of print and electronic media forms - and even international venues.

7. Media literacy's "inquiry process" transforms teaching and frees the lecturers to learn along with students -- becoming a "guide on the side" rather than a "sage on the stage."
8. By focusing on process skills rather than content knowledge, FCM students gain the ability to analyze any message in any media and thus are empowered for living all their lives in a media-saturated culture.

9. By using a replicable model for implementation, such as Five Key Questions, media literacy avoids becoming a "fad" and, instead, becomes sustainable over time because students FCM are able to build a platform with a consistent framework that goes with them from school to school, grade to grade, teacher to teacher and class to class. With repetition and reinforcement over time, students are able to internalize a checklist of skills for effectively negotiating the global media culture in which they will live all of their lives.

10. Not only benefits individual students but benefits society by providing tools and methods that encourage respectful discourse that leads to mutual understanding and builds the citizenship skills needed to participate in and contribute to the public debate.

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article667.html

Critical reflection 1 (WEEK 7)

What is Media Literacy ?

Media literacy is the method to access, analyze, evaluate and create information in a variety of media formats including print and non-print. It is mindful viewing, and reflective decide. Media literacy education can help people to critically analyze the messages to detect propaganda, censorship, and bias in news and public affairs programming, and to understand how structural features.


http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/medlit.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy

I also hope lecturers can leave their comments after reading our article. So we know where are our problem.

Critical reflection 2 (WEEK 6)

From your personal experience, what other media stereotype you have seen either on TV or in the movies?


While In my opinion, television have improved in its character of females, many of the women feature on TV to be someone's wife or girlfriend .Television children are generally cast in gender relate role, the girls playing with dolls and the boys play at sports. Similarly, the character of mothers-in-law, gays, police officers, and truck drivers tends toward the stereotypical.

Culture of stereotypes are also popular in television. However, minorities are portrayed stereotypically and rich as the white majority.

Because stereotyping will lead by children to form false impressions of societal groups, it is important that students recognize stereotypes and understand the role they play in television. Students must tune into the ways television treats people, recognize how they themselves relate to TV characters, and understand how these characters can influence their ideas about the real people in their communities.

Critical reflection 1 (WEEK 6)

Give a very short basic explanation of what media stereotype is?


Media stereotypes are inevitable, especially in the advertising, entertainment and news industries, which need as wide an audience as possible to quickly understand information. Stereotypes act like codes that give audiences a quick, common understanding of a person or group of people—usually relating to their class, ethnicity or race, gender, sexual orientation, social role or occupation.

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/

Personal reflection (WEEK 5)

I hope lecturers can give us comment when finish readig our article. So we can know our problem, beside we also can improve our article. That all thank you.

Critical reflection 2 (WEEK 5)

Jobseekers cheated by Internet recruiters
THE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) on Monday issued another warning against fraudulent Internet job schemes after another group of overseas job applicants fell prey to the scheme.

POEA Administrator Rosalinda Baldoz said several job applicants reported that they received unsolicited e-mail messages from a “multinational company” through a seemingly legitimate e-mail account congratulating them for being selected for specific jobs.
The e-mail contains details about the “hiring company,” the positions needed and a very enticing compensation package. The e-mail further states that the company had received a copy of the résumé of the applicant from a “résumé bank” or job site of their ac­cre­dited companies in the Philippines.

The applicants said that when they expressed interest in the job offer, the company required them to undergo a seminar/training for a fee, to pay for the reservation, OWWA membership, taxes and insurance through a courier service.
The applicants paid for the required fees and only realized that they were swindled when the company stopped communicating with them.

Baldoz admitted that the POEA is helpless against such fraud because transactions in the Internet are virtually unrestricted and impersonal, making it easier for illegal recruiters to prey on individuals in search of employment overseas through the Web.

Baldoz cautions recipients of e-mail job offers to verify the authenticity of the company, the website, as well as the telephone numbers before paying any money.

To avoid being victimized by Internet job scams, she said, applicants must make sure that the jobs actually exist by checking on the website of the employers, their complete addresses, post code and contact details through search engines like Google and Yahoo!, among others.

Baldoz also pointed out that job seekers must always be skep­tical of Internet employment offers that appear to be “too good to be true,” such as huge salary offer, free accommodation and food, free use of amenities. --William B. Depasupil
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/june/26/yehey/metro/20070626met4.html

That day I saw this article on internet. It is writing about the Jobseekers cheated by Internet recruiters. These problems especially happen in Philippine, Indonesia, Thailand and so on. This kind of news we can read from newspaper, magazine every day. Why this problem was happen? Because they fully believe the job offer on internet. They didn’t get any information and research become this kind of problem was happen, happen and happen.

Actually, jobseekers must check the background of company when they searching for job. They can checking on the website of the background of employer, example like their complete address, post code, contact number through the search engines. But this also not enough, some time the jobseeker can get the help from Employment Administration on their country to get more information.

In my conclusion, we must think carefully before we doing something. In addition, we must always be skep­tical of Internet, avoid the fraud will be happen. Do more research, get more information it will bring more benefit for you.

Critical reflection 1 (WEEK 5)

I cannot often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much. Some company use internet to make advertisement. So they are using the internet to promote their product to get the target and benefit. They will show the picture or article exaggeratory. For example, nowadays many people will go online shopping, sometime the things that we saw on internet will look different when the things deliver to our home.

Next, when we have problems maybe we will find some solution thought the internet, but in internet has many different type of solution and explain. So some information will make us very confuse. That because, internet cannot filter the information completely. So the wrong information will influence the audience mind. If this phenomenon keeps on, it will cause the social problem.

Nowadays, many people found the job from internet. We also cannot truth it fully. Sometime, the information was posted on internet are not very detail, so people will get different work compare with the work they saw on the internet and some job the search from internet need people pay the big amount of deposit before they go to work. So many people was been cheated.
In my conclusion, we cannot often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much. We need to think carefully before we do it.