GROUP 4 (MIL)

The Digital Divide, or the computerized split, is a social issue alluding to the varying measure of data between the individuals who approach the Internet and the individuals who don't approach. The term got well known among concerned gatherings, for example, researchers, strategy creators, and promotion gatherings, in the last part of the 1990s. One of the watched solid circumstances are the admittance to computers in schools. The powerful utilization of innovation in homerooms and educating of fundamental innovation abilities to understudies. For instance, a state funded school up in the mountains can't have this sort of instructing as they do not have the assets to assemble and have appropriate types of gear to show their understudies, though tuition based school in the fundamental city can have access to these devices without any problem. Additionally, as students at any rate give old contraptions and convince others to give as a minor help for the understudies up in the far grounds. 

 The idea of the digital divide refers to the growing gap between the underprivileged members of society and to the privileged ones. Also, the gap of access information of the youth compared to the elderly can also be a factor. The access to information in the developed countries or places is much better as compared to the case in the underdeveloped and progressing areas. As a student, simple actions may lead to meaningful results. We can help to bridge the gap in a way of sharing worthwhile information, letting them know and experience community organizations that offers access to information  and lastly educating ourselves, with that we can also educate others to close the conflict of digital divide. The youth of today are labeled as technology literates/digital natives. We are the most apparent individuals who are active on social media, trends among others while the digital immigrants have difficulties in participating online like communicating and obtaining information especially the advent of mobile gadgets. By practicing the digital citizenship to break the digital divisions as students, we will discipline the digital natives/ourselves the proper way of behaving online with the utmost value/netiquette, respect. 

Piracy is an illegal form of unconsented distribution of materials that are protected by copyright. Whoever does this crime is responsible for the law/s that he or she violated. Aside from that major setback according to “siia.net” other consequences are: software malfunctions may rise, no warrants that guarantee the security of themselves, “increase their risk of exposure to a debilitating virus that can destroy valuable data” & “risk potential negative publicity, public and private embarrassment.” The simple entry to innovation has implied that throughout the long term, theft has gotten more wild. For instance, CD scholars are accessible off the rack at exceptionally low costs, making music robbery a basic issue. One of the difficulties in theft are; Quality of pilfered motion pictures and tunes probably won't be as exact and precised when contrasted with unique duplicates. It may not be as lovely to watch or tune in when contrasted with the first duplicate. In spite of the fact that downloading music and film makes it effectively accessible to the majority, it additionally makes it spread all over. In any case, considering something that is effectively accessible is normally of a lesser worth. Something that is scant is valuable while something that is abundant will in general be of a lesser worth. Subsequently, this outcomes in the cost of the music or film to devalue. 

Pirating in its very nature is illegal and is actually a form of theft of intellectual property. One of the numerous drawbacks of piracy is the fact that individuals are not paying any cash for the movies, music, or program. The profit is significantly impacted and the cost to create the material remains the same. This basically costs the maker of the pirated material the distinction and makes it exceptionally difficult to decide how successful the fabric was with the public. Most artists are against piracy since it is affecting the amount of cash they earn.

Today, Information has become a fundamental component of education, and literacy is considered a responsibility of all practitioners. In the new period of information today, there are numerous challenges to induce information since it comes from numerous sources. All the sources must be sifted and managed carefully to induce the quality of the information. The skills to find, assess, and use information are exceptionally vital especially since the advent of the online library and Internet resources.

The social era allows us to research information instantly however unlike published books that went through a process of editing and revisions before publishing, the contents online are not all thoroughly checked. Additionally, anybody can post which is not reliable. According to Quipper (2020) “Information literacy forms the basis for lifelong learning” gives us accountability to recognize the need and evaluate the reliability and credibility of information and the source of our knowledge and ethics. 

In this period of time, the availability of information is anywhere. You can access it whenever you are going. Simply being exposed to a great deal of information will not make you an informed citizen, hence it is one way for people to critically evaluate and use this information effectively. Not all you see and read especially in social media applications are reliable and truthful. With that, we need to understand how to be an Information Literate in this era. Information literacy is important for today's learners since it promotes critical thinking skills like asking questions and seeking answers, finding reliable and credible information, and evaluating sources in fostering successful learners and effective contributors of information in this Social Era.

Media and information literacy assist us and gives us the empowerment to have an ability to develop and adapt yourself /others to the rise of technology.  An individual must be media and information literate to be vigilant and survive the knowledge and issues the world imparts to us. Everyone is expected to utilize the available sources of information from media in a responsible, ethical, and effective manner by being smart, critical user, and life-long learner.

Being media and information literate helps a person to think critically at all times and to strengthen his or her interpretation and observations from the information provided. Critical thinking permits an individual to look at an issue and realize there is extra information to discover, assess, and apply before coming up with conclusions. Information proficiency provides the puzzle pieces needed to unravel, decode, or evaluate information gathered from observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication.

The value of a wise and careful media user will result in well-informed individuals. These two values are interconnected with each other, being careful is being wise as well. It is because being wise helps people to discern faulty information from truthful ones. To be able to think twice if those sources of information are reliable and credible. In that way, we practice carefulness, we dissect even the smallest details of the specific information. We become well-informed individuals and also an example to the world who has a huge number of media users who easily believe in what they see and read and be scammed.