Abstract
Today, taking into consideration the both positive and negative sides of information, it is necessary to develop a person who is able to defend himself from the latter. Especially, against the backdrop of a real epidemic in the center of China, when the rest of the world, according to the world health organization (WHO), has erupted the spread of an excessive amount of information about the coronavirus, including reliable, but mostly fake. In this regards, it becomes very important to develop media literacy among young people. Hence, the paper is devoted to the development of students’ media competence which is relevant today in the field of education and upbringing. The authors consider ‘media competence’ will develop through media education in the sense of working with sources of information, learning to search for necessary, useful information, as well as to distinguish between true and false information. In this case, a competent person is characterized as a person who can correctly analyze media products, choose what he or she needs from the flow of information, and knows how to avoid the negative effects of harmful, inhumane materials. Therefore, the authors believe that conditions should be created for the effective solution of the problem raised in the pedagogical process of the university, and as one of them offers scientifically based psychological and pedagogical conditions for the development of students’ media competence. In our study, experimental work was organized on the basis of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University and Taraz Pedagogical University. To conduct the experiment, two groups of 188 students majoring in "Pedagogy and Psychology" and "Pedagogy and Methodology of Primary Education" were organized: experimental and control groups. The paper presents some fragments from the results of practical testing of psychological and pedagogical conditions.

Key words: information security; Internet; media; media education; media competence; psychological and pedagogical conditions.