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K-12 Curriculum Development

Podcasts: student thinking, student voice, and school culture

Audio recordings that amplify initiatives, celebrations & student voice to the community

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K-12 Curriculum Development Productions

Sustainability PSAs: Recycling at Eagle Academy

Environmental Public Service Announcements filmed and edited by middle school students.

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K-12 Curriculum Development

School Vision Productions at TAOTS

Students & Staff define & articulate their K-5 school experience.

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K-12 Curriculum Development

The Climate Activists of Class 5-318

“Beware Climate Change, Class 5-318 is going to save the world!!!”

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K-12 Curriculum Development Productions

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

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.

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K-12 Curriculum Development TMS Custom Resources

Media Literacy Scope & Sequence Template

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.

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K-12 Curriculum Development Presentations & Notes

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 that end.

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K-12 Curriculum Development TMS Custom Resources

The Target Student Media Literacy Profile

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

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K-12 Curriculum Development TMS Custom Resources

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

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Higher Ed Teaching K-12 Curriculum Development Presentations & Notes

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.