Digital Literacy / Media Literacy -whats the difference?

I'm not really sure why we should focus on the differences between digital and media literacies.  They both seem to go hand in hand and I wouldn't examine one without the other.  It seems kind of like comparing nectarines and peaches.  Similar colour and shape but different texture and taste.

Certainly as you have said Leslee, some lessons seem to fall into the category of digital literacy and others into media literacy.  I have also taught similar kinds of lessons with my students.  Perhaps the one thing that resonates with me is that digital literacy is more about the creation of a digital footprint in the world whereas media literacy is more concerned with understanding the media that we make and that is presented to us with a critical lens. 

I was trying to figure at what age do I teach certain concepts to and I realized that I have been teaching things like perspective to students in Kindergarten. A book I really like this year that is great at looking at different perspectives is: SSPBOY "They All Saw a Cat"        -Brendan Wenzel

Some words that help me to distinguish the two are manage (digital) and create (media). Digital literacy seems to be in the house of management of personal issues such as email, passwords and online chats and safelty and media literacy goes along with our creations and experiences through technology.  In the diagram for "What Google Knows", both digital and media seem to be intertwined to some degree. Either way, I was astounded by the amount of information that is tied to us through Google.  Kinda Scary- Big Brother- Big Google!

To mend the digital divide? Providing different kinds of activities that enable one to become more media literate. Students love to spend time creating on iPads and making cool projects which is great, but I also notice the need for basic computational programs such as Word.  

Here is a Symbaloo webmix for digital and media literacy that I have been curating.

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