Student’s Media Literacy Training As A Factor Of Personality Development In The Inclusive Education

Abstract

Media literacy development is crucial for socialization and personal development in current circumstances. Media literacy allows to safely use media space, to critically question the incoming media information, not to get exposed to fraud or disinformation. The use of digital technologies in the inclusive education gives the opportunity to enlarge the media use for educational purposes as well as for creating the environment for schoolchildren to produce their own media products. The Internet communication skills help people to be more viable in the labour market. It is important to develop media literacy since the school days. The Federal Law of the Russian Federation on education states the notion of integrated (inclusive) education which allows the children with special needs acquire proper education. By the time young people graduate from school they are to have certain skills, possess required knowledge and capabilities to live self-sufficient lives in the future. The inclusive education should contribute to acquiring these skills including media literacy. The author gives the definition of the notion “media literacy” for a modern school child, shows the importance of media literacy for the student’s personality irrespective of their health condition and states the difficulties a teacher is about to face when working with children with special needs (teaching media literacy). The model of media literacy training for the school children in the context of inclusive education digitalization is presented in the article.