Some aspects of media culture formation in students of a secondary school

the article is devoted to the characteristics of some aspects of the formation of media culture in students of comprehensive schools. The education system is designed to form the ability to learn, gain knowledge, develop skills, and not absorb a coherent system of facts. In the context of the informatization of education, an urgent problem is to improve the information culture of the individual. This article pays special attention to the term "media education", which is understood by the authors in different ways. We proceed from the fact that media education realizes the ability to develop a person through media, forms a consumer of various information. It is noted that digitalization has firmly entered almost all spheres of activity of a modern person. This is explained by the active digitalization processes today. The mediatization of modern society significantly expands the traditional understanding of personal culture, including the ability to effectively function in the digital space along with awareness of moral values and self-determination. Media education is a fundamental element in the development of personal culture, determining the formation of information competence of high school students. In this context, it is important to teach the younger generation to navigate the media environment, critically evaluate incoming information, and skillfully use modern technologies to achieve one of the main goals of education – the formation of a comprehensively developed personality.

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