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.
K-12 Ed
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
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…)
Media Literacy in the Public Service Announcement (PSA)
At any level within K-12 schools analyzing and/or making Public Service Announcement (PSA) is a fantastic way to engage students in real-world issues, argumentative writing, and civic action. (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…)
TMS writes chapter on Blending the Common Core with Media Literacy
The Media Spot’s Rhys Daunic contributed the following chapter to Media Literacy Education in Action, Theoretical and pedagogical perspectives, edited by Belinha S. Deabreu and Paul Mihailidis. (more…)
Vertically Integrated Schoolwide Media Literacy Planner (2013).
To simplify the infusion of digital and media literacy into complex public school curricula, TMS often suggests “production-based media literacy”, which recommends that schools: (more…)
The TMS Media Literacy Unit Planner
The TMS Media Literacy Unit Planner is used as a tool for the development of units of study that connect existing curriculum objectives, essential competencies of media literacy, and the Common Core State Standards. (more…)
