The influence of media on formal and informal education

The paper "The influence of media on formal and informal education" focuses on practical applicative dimension through which the media is the one that develops new interests, leisure time skills, offers new options for entertainment and culture for the sphere of preoccupations of school children. With excessive consumption of media messages are substituted cultural activities with a valued content, and there are disturbed the learning activities of learners. Promotion in Romanian education of media literacy method must be supported by educational offer nationwide through which learners should be enriched with a tool of intellectual work useful in learning and training experiences. The main challenge of the curriculum is planning some learning situations appropriate to the rational education for media, through which learner can develop his communication competence, critical thinking, cultivate his responsibility, tolerance, develop his aesthetic sensitivity, and capitalize his own experience by relating to experiences and social reality. The study capitalizes theoretical aspects crystallized in educational research concerned with the issue of media influences on formal and informal education in Romanian socio-cultural reality concerned with the training needs of students. Education for media aims to overcome the current state of society that influences the educational field, which represents the mentality of audience. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).