Digital media education and its role in promoting moral and educational values ​​for middle and high school students
Authors: Muhsen Kazem Kaream 
Published: May 2023

As a result of the tremendous development in communication and media technology, and the combination of the communication process with the techniques of the World Wide Web (Internet), which resulted in electronic media, social networking sites, applications and various media with the so-called concept of digital media, through which many information is published that includes messages with informative content and content. With multiple goals and objectives characterized by an influential and directive power in the diversity of programs and their employment by attracting attention, influencing and persuasion. The digital media has made some of its users passive recipients who do not think and verify the media content, much of which affects the social, moral and educational values ​​of the target audience that interests us in our research students .
Media experts, the World Organization, UNESCO, and various countries of the world have pushed to search for what protects their citizens, especially students and youth, to immunize them from dangerous content and media content, and because of the huge amount of information that is sent by digital media via the Internet, making it difficult to control, block or censor, led This is the adoption of the concept of digital media education to meet the challenges of great media openness.
The research depends on important points, identifying the concept of digital media and education, the importance and goals achieved from media education and the most important advantages that qualify it to protect and fortify the recipient, and define the most important characteristics of digital media education that emphasizes the awareness of the recipient to the media about the risks and benefits that the student receives through realizing thinking skills The critic with analysis and interpretation, makes the student a positive recipient capable of how to deal with digital media in a positive and optimal manner, and to identify the problematic relationship between education and digital media to be two main pillars for the advancement of the educational process and its development and its relationship with the student and the school and the need to deal with digital media education within the curriculum of the Ministry of Education To create a conscious generation of students with a sound community media culture, given that media and education complement the other in community service. The research phenomenon was verified through field procedures for the research community, which is middle and secondary schools. Appropriate samples were selected from middle and second school students according to different levels of study from the middle and secondary classes, and samples were selected according to the mental level of the students and the gender variable for male and female students. The questionnaire was distributed, which was Directing questions related to the research and a variety of axes, including the role of digital media education in immunizing students from the negative and positive effects of digital media, knowing the most important types of media and applications in digital media, and the uses, motives, goals and functions provided in digital media, as well as the problems and obstacles facing students The impact of the use of digital media, and the need for a media education that cares and monitors the use of the media message, and immunizes them from the slippery slope of Western culture and the moral violations that tear the building of the student’s personality, which works to keep him away from the academic atmosphere and thus poses a threat to the future of a healthy society.