Relationship between Digital media literacy and traditional literacy

I think a key is to engage the students in learning, the more they are interested in something the more they will learn. Traditional literacy could be very dull and uninteresting to a student unless the teacher had a creative way to make it interesting. Teaching digital media literacy has a distinct advantage in that kids love to be on the computer and they know they will be directly using these tools every single day. Critical thinking is also a huge part to digital media literacy and is something that is not quite stressed as much in traditional literacy. Educators are always going to have to adapt to the world around them to effectively reach their students at an optimal level. So english teachers and general education teachers will have to embrace the teaching of digital media literacy or risk having their students unprepared for advancement and learning at a lower level.