Abstract
The article first deals with the questions of the contexts in which the terms media pedagogy, media education, media didactics, media competence and media education arose, the relationship between them and the understanding with which they were used in the course of their development. The aim is to achieve a deeper understanding of the terms and their significance for the pedagogical engagement with media. At the same time, different understandings of the respective content of the terms can be classified or clarified. Against this background, recommendations for the future use of terms and for a possible structuring of media education are formulated.