Media integration in education refers to combining traditional educational ideas and methods with emerging digital and networked technologies, and providing students with more interactive and customizable educational experiences through various media forms including words, images, audio and video. It is one of the important directions of educational innovation in the digital age.

The characteristics of educational media are mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. Diversification: There are various forms of media used in educational integration, and different forms can be selected for teaching according to different educational needs, such as online courses, e-books and virtual laboratories.

2. Interaction: Education and media can establish closer contact between teachers and students, promote communication and interaction, make the teaching process more lively and let students participate in learning better.

3. Customizability: Educational media can provide personalized learning support and services for different student groups and different learning goals to better meet students' learning needs.

4. Practicality: Education and media emphasize that students need to carry out practical inquiry while studying, accumulate experience and knowledge in this process, and improve their comprehensive quality.

Educational media are widely used, including basic education, vocational education, university education and other educational fields at all levels. In the era of digitalization and networking, media integration into education has become one of the important means of education reform, providing students with richer and more comprehensive learning resources and tools, and at the same time providing educators with more teaching methods and strategy choices.

However, the development of educational media still faces some challenges, such as how to ensure the quality of education, how to protect students' privacy, how to make rational use of data, and so on, which require us to constantly think and explore. Therefore, the future development of educational media needs the joint efforts of educators, researchers and policy makers to achieve the best results.