Church schools are to embark on a new push to promote media education.

Although they had introduced the concept in 1981, it weakened along the years and a seminar was held this morning to give the concept a new push.

During the seminar, the Personal and Social Development and Media Education Department presented 65 PSD teachers at church schools with resources to help them promote the topic.

Such resources included lesson plans on how to tackle certain subjects such as sexual orientation and virtual addiction through the media lens.

Head of Department Edward Wright said spoke on the plan to start promoting media education in other subjects, including languages and teacher training, as from next year.

The Archbishop's delegate for social communications, Fr Charles Tabone, said media education should not be just digital skills as that would make it just an extension of education technology.

Media education, he said, was the critical evaluation of the media based on a set of values that benefitted the person as a whole.

It was indispensable in today's world so it was an educational aspect that should be strengthened.

Fr Joe Borg, who pioneered media education in 1981, spoke on the new internet generation.

He said media educators should strengthen the sovereignty of the audience by allowing them to read texts their way and keep them from becoming sponges.

Children, he said, had to be taught how to transform risks into opportunities, reducing harm.

Technological qualities, he said, developed into cultural qualities and consequently in personal characteristics.

"Technology is changing the make-up of society," he said.