Abstract:

With the advent of modern technology, the education and training of students to properly assess the quality and accuracy of information is becoming one of the main tasks of the educational institutions and most of all universities. The activity of the young people in social networks has led to an unprecedented increase in the number of unconfirmed sources and fake news in the Internet. Their dissemination is a serious problem which effects on the young people and in particularly on the students.

The development of new information technologies has a decisive impact on all the major spheres of modern life, changes its living conditions and behavioural stereotypes. It is also necessary to create an information retrieval situation during which a positive experience in information activities will be formed. The formation of information literacy depends on the observance of principles such as: the principle of integrity and the principle of continuity. The first principle is based on building a unified strategy for the formation of an informative literate person. The second principle provides the use of all parts of the education system which will be in relation to each other to form an informative literate person.

This article presents basic methods and steps that can be used in the process of training the students in different specialities to improve their information and media literacy. The role of universities, as major institutions in this process, is also explored.

Keywords:

University, education, students, information, literacy.