Mechanisms of media education for children in an artificial intelligence environment : Between Empowerment and protection

Abstract

Artificial intelligence has become an essential element in children's daily lives, and this development is based on previous technological transformations brought about by television, the Internet, smartphones, tablets, and video games .The current digital landscape represents an important environmental transformation that has potential impacts on children's cognitive and emotional development that are not yet fully understood, because research In the effects of technology on children, it is complex and affected by the nature of screen activities, the child’s age, environment, and unique profiles Accordingly, it has become an urgent necessity to integrate media education into our educational curricula, activate the role of parental mediation, and review its mechanisms that are no longer sufficient to protect children and activate them with the accompanying educational, moral and cultural opportunities and challenges to enable children to achieve media awareness, critical thinking and safe and responsible use of media digital; This is purely the problem of the study: What are the effective mechanisms of media education that enable children to consciously deal with digital content produced by artificial intelligence? What are the ways to protect it from the risks of misinformation, manipulation and inappropriate content?