The Formation of Infomedia Literacy of Students in a Media Tournament

The article touches upon the problem of forming Info media literacy of high school students in a media tournament. The concept of info-media literacy is described. It is substantiated that the modern form of extracurricular work is a media tournament, participation in which can affect the level of info-media literacy of young people. The experience of organizing and conducting a media tournament within the framework of the grant project of the Council for International Research and Exchanges (IRX) is described, which included a number of events (Bar-camp “Online Tools”, Workshop “Media literacy tools in the study of literary works”, Workshop “Formation of skills of evaluation and interpretation of media information”, Training “Language media master” and four checkpoints). The effectiveness of the media tournament has been proven statistically. According to the results of the selection of teams for the Media Tournament, it was revealed that Ukrainian schools do not have a policy of conscious formation of information literacy of students.