The Role of Media Education in Reducing the Negative Consequences of Digitalization

Digitalization of all spheres of public life, including education, changes the practices of consumption, use and production of information.In modern conditions, the consequences of digitalization have both positive and negative tonality.Along with the availability of information, one can state the risks of information overload, data falsification, and a decrease in media culture.The aim of the research work was to study the impact of digitalization of education on students' practices of using and consuming information, perception of the value of knowledge and academic education, as well as traditional forms of education.The results of the study showed a deformation of value norms characterizing the attitude towards academic traditions in education.Excess information on the Internet devalues the value of knowledge obtained in the learning process.Students consider lectures to be an outdated practice; most of them would like to change the form of knowledge acquisition, moving from lectures in the classroom to "listening to videos".An illustration of the insufficient level of media competence of a student, the deformation of his media culture is the lack of understanding of clear differences between fragmentary information from the Internet and systemic knowledge obtained during training.The study revealed a low level of students' motivation to work with educational digital materials presented in the educational environment of the university.It is concluded that the key tasks of media education in modern conditions should include those that have a positive impact on reducing the negative consequences of digitalization.In the course of the study, they are systematized as follows: the formation of a healthy approach and conscious attitude to information in young people, the formation of skills for assessing the reliability of information content, the development of a subjective position in students when accessing digital services.It has been established that media education, with the increasing pace of digitalization, should take on the tasks of forming digital ethics among participants in the educational process, become the foundation for maintaining cultural norms and educational values of working with information, broadcasting the importance of academic traditions in the course of obtaining knowledge.