Category: K-12 Curriculum Development

Remote Media Production: Student Expression on Activism & COVID-19

Post author By The Media Spot
Post date Jul 19, 2021

Using media literacy and social justice theater pedagogy, students document a peaceful protest at their school, ask each other what it means to be an activist, then use a variety of performance and media to reflect on and celebrate surviving the COVID-19 era.

K-12 Curriculum Development TMS Custom Resources

Media Literacy Scope & Sequence Template

Post author By The Media Spot
Post date Jun 16, 2018

Use our media literacy scope and sequence planner to vertically integrate the use of technology and media to serve and enhance your school vision, and build towards a target profile of competencies for your students.

Tags K-12, Planners, TMS Highlights., TMS Media Literacy Resources

K-12 Curriculum Development Presentations & Notes

K-5 Schoolwide Workshop on Media Literacy Alignment

Post author By The Media Spot
Post date Nov 7, 2017

Each grade team at PS 682 (K-5, Brooklyn) worked backward from the TMS Media Literacy Target Profile for their graduating 5th graders, by aligning and coordinating all media related practices towards that end.

Tags integrated curriculum map, K-12 Ed, K-5, TAOTS

K-12 Curriculum Development TMS Custom Resources

The Target Student Media Literacy Profile

Post author By The Media Spot
Post date Sep 29, 2017

Wherever media is used in education, it can steer students towards this target profile of a media literate citizen.

Tags K-12, Standards

K-12 Curriculum Development TMS Custom Resources

TMS Article on K-12 Media Literacy for Common Sense Education

Post author By The Media Spot
Post date Sep 22, 2017

With a recent focus on “fake news” and the realization that many of us (adults and kids alike) get our news primarily through social media, the concept of “media literacy” is buzzing. Read the full article on CommonSense.org

Tags Common Sense Media, K-12 Ed, media-literacy-education, publications, TMS Highlights.

Higher Ed Teaching K-12 Curriculum Development Presentations & Notes

Keynote at URI Summer Institute

Post author By The Media Spot
Post date Jul 31, 2017

Slide deck and video (courtesy of Renee Hobbs) of The Media Spot’s keynote address and live media production exercise at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Summer Institute in Digital Literacy.

Tags Higher Ed, K-12, Keynote, URI Summer Institute

K-12 Curriculum Development Productions

Imagining a rooftop greenhouse learning lab in Brooklyn

Post author By
Post date May 7, 2017

Working with students, parents, teachers and Principal Donna Taylor, TMS helped Brooklyn School of inquiry (and donors!) imagine a sustainable rooftop farm for interdisciplinary, hands-on learning to serve students and educators across New York City and beyond.

Tags bsi, inquiry, K-12 Ed, K-5, Sustainability

K-12 Curriculum Development Presentations & Notes

TMS at NYCDOE G&T Conference: Enrichment for All

Post author By The Media Spot
Post date Jun 7, 2016

Rhys Daunic and Emily Bailin of The Media Spot ran the following workshop for teachers and adminstrators at the NYCDOE Enrichment for All Conference June 7, 2016 at the Brooklyn Marriott.

Tags bsi, media literacy, NYCDOE, presentation, Scope and Sequence

K-12 Curriculum Development Presentations & Notes

TMS Media Literacy Exchange #1.

Post author By The Media Spot
Post date Jun 7, 2015

Media literacy curriculum planners will gather from nine New York City Schools, led by Rhys Daunic and Kwaku Aning from The Media Spot, with support from Renee Hobbs and Jonathan Friesem from the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab.