Enhancing Students? Digital Media Literacy through Project REAL NEWS (Reliable E-content and Authenthic Linkages for Nimble-minded, Efficacious, and Watchful Students)
Flordeliza Addatu | Marianne Jane B. Addatu | Annaliza Bunagan | Darwin Caronan | Ethel Joyce Layus | Reichelle Santiago
Discipline: Education
Abstract:
In the Philippines, education has transitioned to
remote and digital platforms, with teaching now conducted
virtually. Consequently, social media and the internet have
become the source of information, allowing them to share ideas,
information, and thoughts. However, this has affected the quality
of information being shared among individuals and the broader
community. The Project REAL NEWS, which stands for Reliable
E-Content and Authentic Linkages for Nimble-Minded,
Efficacious, And Watchful Students, is an assessment tool that
determines students' ability to discern factual events, pictures,
quotations, and information in History, Economics, and
Contemporary Issues in the Philippine setting. In this quasiexperimental study, all Grade 10 students in the Science
Curriculum of the University of Saint Louis Tuguegarao with
Full Online and Blended Learning modalities answered the pretest. Subsequently, students with a percentage of 74 and below
were taught to utilize the suggested digital media literacy
program. The pre-test and post-test questionnaires comprised 20-
item multiple-choice divided into three parts, each pertaining to
the factual information of three disciplines taught in Social
Studies at the Junior High School level. This study followed three
phases of data gathering: First, a pre-test was administered to
the 418 participants before implementing the proposed digital
media literacy program to determine the target participants and
assess their initial abilities in discerning factual information.
Second, participants with a percentage of 74 and below during
the pre-test were engaged in the proposed digital media literacy
program. Third, a post-test was administered after the
implementation of the Project REAL NEWS. Frequency and
percentage were used to interpret the pre-test and post-test
scores of the participants, while a paired-sample T-test was used
to test the significant difference between the pre-test and posttest scores of the participants. Results showed that the post-test
scores of the students were higher than their pre-test scores. The
study revealed a significant difference in the pre-test and posttest scores of the participants. Furthermore, it showed that they
have very satisfactorily developed their abilities in online factchecking information. Thus, the program or the intervention
effectively enhances the skills in online fact-checking information
of the Grade 10 students.
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