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Media Literacy through Digital Production
Documentary-style video produced by TMS for The Code of Best Practices in Media Literacy Education, demonstrating fair use of copyrighted material in the context of a classroom production at PS 124.

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Since our students will have watched approximately sixteen thousand hours of television by high school's end, questions should have arisen, even in the minds of officials at the Department of Education, about who will teach our students how to look at television, and when not to, and with what critical equipment when they do.

— Neil Postman

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PS 124 Poetry Videos at the 5th grade Film Fest

March 16, 2007 by Rhys

Class 5-302 showed off their video productions to a packed library full of students and teachers yesterday.

Since December, class 5-302 has been adapting original poems into videos. The 5th grade created "List Poems" in the Fall in response to Walt Whitman's There was a Child Went Forth on their blog.

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List Poetry Blogging & Poetry Videos at PS124

December 30, 2006 by Rhys

Poetry Unit > List Poems > Poetry Videos

This Fall, fifth graders at PS 124 created "List" or "Catalog" poetry while learning to blog, and currently one of the classes is producing video representations of poems generated through this project.