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4th Grade PSA on Global Warming
Class 4-302 at PS 124 produced a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on the effects of global warming and what we can do about them. After researching this topic as part of a social studies unit, class discussions determined that a class PSA could be effective by creating feelings of guilt in adults over their participation in things that could have devastating effects on the students' future.

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This is why I think it accurate to call television a curriculum. As I understand the word, a curriculum is a specially constructed information system whose purpose is to influence, train, teach or cultivate the mind and character of youth...
I refer, first, to the fact that television's principal contribution to educational philosophy is the idea that teaching and entertainment are inseparable...
The name we properly give to an education without prerequisites, perplexity, and exposition is entertainment.

— Neil Postman, Author, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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TMS proposes the "Media Literacy Learning Network" to MacArthur

November 1, 2007 by Rhys

The Media Spot recently submitted a proposal for for a Knowledge-Networking Award from the MacArthur Foundation to develop an area of our website into a Media Literacy Learning Network (MLLN), via an initial pilot program. The writing process helped us galvanize ideas we've been rolling around for awhile, and create a clear direction for the future of TMS and this website. A big thanks goes out to The Learning about Media Project, Renee Hobbs of The Media Ed Lab, Dan Storchan of AUSSIE PD, and Pablo Conrad at PS124 for discussing the ideas with us and agreeing to contribute to the pilot network.

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TMS proposes the "Media Literacy Learning Network" to MacArthur