Activity 1

Name: Vincent B. Domingo

Yes/Sec: III-BEED-1
1. How Media Literacy and Digital Literacy are related?
Digital and media literacy are both mechanism to develop our critical thinking skills to
response in the particular problem. Both of Digital and Media literacy are very useful to create
a new concept of information that provide new skills. Media literacy commonly focused in
different type of media. However media literacy help us to prevent media abuse and to
understand the cyber literacy and information literacy, while digital literacy brought
understanding about wise of using digital platforms with discipline. In my general observation
those literacy are interconnected to each other since it build of new literacy’s skill that we can
used to work collaboratively and share the necessary information in different person using
network field. Digital and media literacy create comprehensive changes among 21 st century
youth.
2. How Critical Thinking is important to both Digital and Media Literacy?
Critical thinking is important since it required of severe analysis toward particular
information. In order to be more media and digital literate it required to evaluate and analyze
all information. The role of critical thinking is very beneficial to formulate a deep understanding
in using media information and digital technology.
3. Internet is a global jungle of human communication embracing truth and falsehoods,
honesty and deceit and good and evil, how will you know that the information or
messages you read are not scam or any form of cybercrimes?
a) The message is irrelevant to you
One way to identify a text scam is that the message is unprompted, random or
unrelated to any activity you’ve had with the business or individual. Common scam text
messages will say you’ve won a contest, a prize or free money. And an increasingly popular text
scam will say there’s a delivery issue with a package.

b) The message’s tone is urgent or requests your immediate action

Another sign of a text scam is that the message is pushing you to act now. These types
of text scams are effective at tricking us because they play on our emotions. The sender may
pretend to be your bank or a government agency. Or they may claim to be someone you know
in need of your help to get out of a crisis.
 c) The text message is coming from a lengthy phone number or sketchy email
address
A clear sign of a text scam is by checking the sender’s contact information. If it’s a
lengthy, random email address or the phone number is much longer than your average 10-digit
phone number or common five or six-digit phone number, it may be a text scam.

d) The text message contains a suspicious link

Scam text messages won’t always contain a link, but those that do may direct you to
download malware or enter your credit card information or personal details.