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Media Literacy Online Course

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052699
Grade 9-12
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Media Literacy Online Course
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$175.00
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Product Overview

  • One-semester, half-credit Elective Course for high school
  • Flexible pacing with video lectures, on-screen text, and guided notes!
  • Learn to spot right, center, and left-leaning slants in reporting

Important

Non-returnable. Is, or contains, a digital item.

Description

Equip students to navigate today’s complex media landscape with discernment and confidence. This one-semester online elective course teaches students to evaluate news, social media, advertising, and other information sources; recognize bias and logical fallacies; analyze rhetoric; and separate fact from fiction.

Designed as a one-semester, half-credit elective, this program guides students to complete approximately 70 hours of coursework through self-paced lessons, video lectures, guided notes, vocabulary practice, auto-graded quizzes, and interactive assignments. Each session takes 30–90 minutes to complete. The Instructor Guide includes additional guidance for documenting hours, assigning transcript credit, and using the rubrics for efficient grading.

Units Covered:

  • Unit 1: The Fundamentals — What is media literacy?
  • Unit 2: History — Where did “the media” come from?
  • Unit 3: The Political Landscape — What is the political spectrum?
  • Unit 4: Language — Bias and point of view, framing, political-speak, fallacies, persuasive techniques, artificial intelligence, and more.
  • Unit 5: Tools to read like a historian.

Students will complete an argumentative essay that requires them to respond persuasively to a set of sources addressing a specific question. The book So What? The Writer’s Argument by Kurt Schick and Laura Schubert is required to complete this assignment.

Publisher's Description of Media Literacy Online Course
This course is made in partnership with Ground News, the premier website and app for gathering all the world’s media in one place so you can compare coverage from the left, right, and center. This course is currently being “dripped” out a session at a time. See the course preview below for a view of what’s available now, and what’s still to come. Purchase the course now, and get instant access to new content as it becomes available!

Cut through the noise
Our Media Literacy course takes an innovative approach to navigating an increasingly complex world of information:
  • Follow today’s headlines and partisan news coverage with clear insight into the interests of your sources
  • Find the range of sources that will constitute your healthy news diet
  • Learn to understand and get behind the surface of language and images like a professional
  • Gain perspective on the political landscape of our information environment, and arm yourself and your students with lifelong skills for discernment and judgment
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Product Format:Other
Grades:9-12
Brand:The Nomadic Professor
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