The TMS Scope & Sequence template is intended to support K-12 schools exploring innovative approaches to integrating digital media tools and concepts into pedagogy and content through customized interdisciplinary curricula. (more…)
K-12 Curriculum Development
K-5 Schoolwide Workshop on Media Literacy Alignment
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 building student media literacy.
The Target Student Media Literacy Profile
To guide K-12 technology and media literacy integration, we suggest using a simple target profile of a student who is empowered with adaptable and flexible modern literacy skills and working backward from that objective when designing any use of media in teaching and learning. (more…)
TMS Article on K-12 Media Literacy for Common Sense Education
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
Keynote at URI Summer Institute
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. (more…)
Imagining a rooftop greenhouse learning lab in Brooklyn
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. (more…)
TMS at NYCDOE G&T Conference: Enrichment for All
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. (more…)
TMS Media Literacy Exchange #1.
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. (more…)
Interactive Map: Media Literacy in the K-12 School
This interactive mind map outlines the various strata related to the integration of media literacy in the K-12 school. (more…)
University of Rhode Island Summer Institute in Digital Literacy: “Best PD Ever!”
This past July I had the privilege of participating as a workshop facilitator in an amazing professional development (PD) experience at the URI Summer Institute in Digital Literacy in Providence. “70% of participants rated it the BEST professional development program they have ever experienced in their entire career!”*
