Recognition of Teachers about Students' Competencies of Media and Information Literacy for Social Network Services

This study investigated the opinions of Japanese High School teachers in terms of their perceived students' competency regarding media information literacy (MIL) for the social network services (SNS). The valid criteria used to evaluate competencies were recently advocated by UNESCO, and 25 performance criteria items in three competence categories were selected for the questionnaire method. In particular, "participation" competence of the middle-level of competencies was designed to compare and weight its performance criteria items, and paired-comparison and the geometric mean method were used to calculate importance. As result, students' "communication" competence was evaluated as a rather active situation and "monitoring" competence was evaluated as a rather inactive situation. In addition, counter "risk" ability was recognized as the most important item in "participation" competence. Through discussion, the author revealed the necessity to develop greater competence regarding risk and safety to use SNS.