Media education and continuing teacher education

With the COVID-19 pandemic, it became visible that teacher education has gaps in the integration of digital resources with the professional development of teachers. Thus, there is media education, which is the process of teaching and learning about the media and involves an application of critical, meaningfuland reflective sense. Therefore, continuing education, seen as a process of professional improvement, needs to develop as digital competences of the teacher, focusing on a model of application of technologies that focuses on technological and pedagogical junction, with examples of teaching practices with technology and levels at be achieved within these competencies. The journey begins with exposure to digital technology, moving through media education, the development of digital citizenship, to the level of transformation, which is when the teacher feels secure and has the autonomy to integrate education and digital technology. The research stands out as bibliographical and documentary, based on references such as the Common National Curriculum Base (BNCC), Innovation Center for Brazilian Education (CIEB), Freire, Tardif and Ministry of Education (MEC).