The Nomadic Professor: Media Literacy
Teach teens to dissect headlines, decode bias, and cut through media noise using real-world tools, short videos, and sharp analysis. A one-semester course that builds brains, not just opinions.
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2025 Eleventh-Grade Curriculum Kit
The Nomadic Professor: Media Literacy
The Nomadic Professor: Media Literacy doesn’t sugarcoat the news—it hands your teen the tools to spot half-truths, spin, and straight-up nonsense in a world where everyone has a platform. With short videos, insightful explanations, and real-world exercises, this online course teaches students how to cut through headlines and hashtags with actual discernment.
Across five units—The Fundamentals, History, Politics, Language, and Tools—your student will unpack how media shapes perception, where “the media” came from (spoiler: it wasn’t invented by TikTok), how politics drives coverage, and how to separate facts from well-dressed fiction. He’ll evaluate political cartoons, decode rhetoric, and fact-check like pros using lateral reading and cognitive resistance techniques.
This one-semester digital course meets the 65-hour benchmark for ½ credit in language arts. Looking to kick it up to honors level? Add the recommended text and assign a research project to sharpen those college-ready writing skills.
The Nomadic Professor: Media Literacy is ideal for high school juniors and seniors and doesn’t shy away from the messiness of real-world news. Whether your student’s future involves journalism, law, STEM, or anything in between, he’ll walk away from this course with a better filter and sharper judgment—exactly what today’s information-saturated world demands.
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
The Media Literacy course includes a research and writing assignment that supplements the core content. The paper is largely taught through outside readings in So What?: The Writer's Argument. A student could take the course without the book if they wanted to plan on finding alternative (free) resources for those lessons or exclude the paper from the course altogether. Excluding the paper would change the hours they put into the course, but essentially, it would be the difference between a standard version of the course (without the paper) to something like an honors version of the course (with the paper).
