Media Literacy Working Group

As part of its efforts in media literacy, NCTE is partnering with AverPoint to lead a Media Literacy Working Group (MLWG) in the autumn of 2024 and the spring of 2025. The group of English educators and scholars will collaborate with AverPoint to produce an effective, living, cognitive media literacy playbook that includes:

• The metric(s) of cognitive media literacy
• Scaffolded learning goals and lessons for each level
• Content including sample lesson plans with curated articles, research prompts, and writing prompts
• Interaction and measuring tools through AverPoint
• AverPoint software and personal guidance to get started
• Clear connections to existing classroom goals

MLWG members will receive free access to and training on AverPoint software starting in November 2024. Educators will develop, execute, and assess lesson plans using AverPoint in the winter and spring of 2025, meeting monthly to share their progress and collaborate with their peers. Lesson plans will use NCTE’s ReadWriteThink framework and be peer-reviewed as part of the cognitive media literacy playbook.

MLWG members will also receive a substantial discount code for the NCTE Store in the spring of 2025 for their contributions. Please email profdev@ncte.org with any questions.