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To understand the importance of your media and information literacy footprints (MIL footprints), reflecting on what digital footprints are helps. Digital footprints are data that users left behind on digital devices. They can be created in an active or passive way and are usually systematically collected by Internet services and companies for various and often commercial uses, which will, in turn, impact on users’ navigation experience, online profile, search results, and even privacy and security. Therefore, Internet users should be equipped with MIL competencies in order to be aware of what information Internet services and companies are collecting from them, the desired footprints that can enable positive personal and social change, undesired digital footprints that should be avoided and how to do so. When media and information literate users explain and share with others how they engage critically online, this can be called “MIL footprints”.

What are some types of MlL footprints?

• MIL related content you share on your social media networks
• Online tools you use to promote your MIL activities
• Online news articles or videos that cover your/your organization’s MIL activities
• The different types of online media you use to advocate for your goals
• Intended information you give about you or your organization’s activities

What are ways to create MlL footprints?

• Search and view/hear MIL-related content
• Share MIL-related content with others

Use these posts to increase your MIL footprints. Social platforms’ algorithms use data to provide you with similar content to what you have interacted with before and also suggest organizations and people with whom you might share the same interests. Seek to train these algorithms to give you more of the content that you want. Nevertheless, be proactive and explore, rather than just accept what the system recommends.

Leave MlL footprints by deciding to:

• Promote the use of social media for informed engagement with the communication ecology
• Promote the use of social media whereby citizens exercise their freedom of expression and be active participants of their society
• Use social media to share critical knowledge about their challenges and what solutions could be executed or implemented.
• Use social media to expose and report misinformation. Share fact-checking websites to help your peers do the same. This way you constitute yourself as a trusted source and leave MIL footprints for others to trace.
• Initiate MIL related discussions online connected to certain social issues. For instance, how can MIL empower people to detect gender stereotypes in information and online content and to develop counter narrative content.

Tips:

• Post a news story about MIL in your profile or in a specific group
• Tell people your point of view on how MIL enables you to understand your content feed better in terms of what the providers’ algorithm was presenting to you
• Invite people to tell you their point of view
• Reply to people’s opinions regardless if you agree or not, while ignoring trolls who are not interested in civil discussion
• Tell them how the discussion influenced your point of view

In summary: as discussed earlier in this Curriculum (Part 1) various pedagogical approaches are possible. Please review the list in Part 1 and decide which approach to apply to the suggested Activities below and others that you may formulate.

• Share a short video to promote MIL on a current topic and ask what others think.
• Visit the , social media MIL learning initiative. Search for "MIL footprint" to find related resources. Search for other themes of interest to you. Use these resources in the instructing and learning experience and share your experience online, tagging #MILCLICKS;
• Set up a MIL Club in your learning space, library or community. Prepare a basic project document, articulating development objectives, expected results, inputs, outputs, activities/strategies, sustainability strategy, resources needed, etc. Make sure to acquire necessary permission if applicable. Encourage club members to become , and MIL footprint “ambassador” in their own family/social group/community.

Facebook: Go to Timeline Settings under Apps and website and check:

• In which websites did you log on using Facebook?
• Which apps have active access in your data?
• What data are they using?
• Edit the types of information they can access
• What happens with your data in apps that expire or apps you have deleted?
• How can you ask them to delete the info they have about you from Facebook?

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Websites

• (Canada)
  The AML is a not-for-profit, charitable association of teachers, librarians, consultants, parents, cultural workers, and media professionals concerned with helping people develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of media, their techniques, and their impact. The Key Concepts for Media Literacy, developed in 1989, are the basis for core MIL concepts for many organizations around the world.
• (Global)
  Adopting CML’s basic framework creates a common vocabulary, generates common understandings and promotes consistent instructional methodology across disciplines, across grade levels, across schools and districts, even states and nations.
• (USA)
  The Connected Learning Alliance supports the expansion and influence of a network of educators, experts and youth-serving organizations mobilizing new technology in the service of equity, access and opportunity for all young people.
• (Canada)
  MediaSmarts is a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization for digital and media literacy. Its vision is that children and youth have the critical thinking skills to engage with media as active and informed digital citizens.
• (USA)
  The Northwest Alliance for Responsible Media is committed to monitoring the infuence of news and entertainment media on our society, educating the community about this infuence, and working with media professionals to infuence the industry to act responsibly in helping to create a thriving cultural environment for all.