The purpose of the research is to explain the current trends and importance of media literacy in basic and university education, where the analysis, interpretation, understanding of the messages transmitted to us by various communication media is promoted, reading and interpreting them effectively and efficiently for optimal decision making. The research corresponds to the bibliographic review methodology. Different databases were used, these were: Scopus, Wos, Dialnet, Redalyc, Scielo, ResearchGate, RIDU (UPC Journals) and RevCom, researches from 2000 to 2020, forty were reviewed Research validated by the importance of the information, articles from different countries, English and Spanish languages were considered. The study concludes that media literacy is fundamental in basic and higher education who have the responsibility of providing media education or media education, in which media knowledge is inserted in students from the interpretation that they make of the information, necessary because they spend most of their time exposed to social networks and interacting with multiple media.