Media Literacy Working Group
“ELA educators are responsible for preparing students for a future with an evolving media landscape. As society and technology change, so too does literacy (NCTE, 2019b). While some instructional practices of media education can be generalized across disciplines, many areas are unique to disciplinary literacy within ELA education. Because English teachers have a professional responsibility to prepare students for work, life, and citizenship, media education must be an essential component of the professional identity of teachers. We believe that ELA educators are creative individuals who are familiar with the power of digital media authorship in their own lives.” – NCTE Position Statement, Media Education in English Language Arts
Calling secondary and college members! 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.
The deadline to apply for the Media Literacy Working Group is 11:59 p.m. ET on Sunday, October 13.
Apply today!