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The Media Spot\'s bias: Use Project-based Units to blend DMLE with CCSS and scaffold basic tech skills.

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To simplify the infusion of DMLE within complex NYCDOE environments, my own bias has been towards what I call “production-based media literacy”, which recommends that schools:
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Engage new media resources (“technology”), ways of communicating, and digital literacy skills through content-driven student productions, and
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Layer core competencies of media literacy onto existing learning objectives during the production process.
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Each year students arrive at schools with greater operational capacity for working with digital tools. Nonetheless, schools must develop and refine a simple scope and sequence for assessing the acquisition of basic skills to lower the cost of entry for classroom digital production over time.

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This should be designed to minimize instructional time is spent introducing and reinforcing operational skills that students will gain fluency in through use within academic productions.

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The goal should be to scaffold the most transferrable skills possible to allow them to eventually independently adapt to new tools as they emerge.

MEDIA LITERACY IN THE MODERN NYC K-12 SCHOOL