In the context of the continuous development of the economy, new requirements are constantly being put forward for the importance of the process of training and education. At the present stage, the focus of the world education reform has shifted to national quality education. The priority of such education is the upbringing of an all-round literate and educated person. Media technologies are one of the tools of modern influence on the process of teaching and upbringing. The authors consider media technologies as a set of systemic methods and actions of media education aimed at the formation of a personality, possessing a culture of mass communication, interaction in society based on humanistic ideals and values. Spiritual and moral education is the highest priority in education. The article highlights the question of how to reasonably use media technologies in order to develop the moral education of students and minimize the negative impact of new media on the ideological and moral level of students. The authors analyze the possibilities and problems in the moral education of students in the environment of new media.