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Digital Media Center

Welcome to KQED's Digital Media Center, the place to explore, create and showcase media for and by the community. KQED strives to engage you in the media production process with community and educator trainings, tools, content, and outreach. As part of our community, we hope you will help us build this innovative and creative Digital Media Center. This space will grow and change with our collective creativity.

Media Literacy

Foster independent thinking and 21st century literacy skills with KQED Media Literacy resources. The ability to think critically about the powerful images, words, sounds, and messages that saturate contemporary culture increases students' chance of success in and outside of the classroom.

KQED works closely with the national Alliance for a Media Literate America to provide essential media resources for educators across disciplines. Through tools, workshops, and in-class materials and programs, you can encourage your students to ask key questions about who creates media messages, why? and to what effect.

Digital Storytelling

Help students of all ages find, tell, create, and publish the stories of their lives with Digital Storytelling activities. Through hands-on training in multimedia production and story theory, educators and community members can guide the creation of compelling and authentic digital stories within a learning environment.

Digital stories can lead students and community members to discover first-hand how narrative education can provide knowledge and inspiration. By creating their own media projects, storytellers can also develop important critical thinking skills that help them interpret 21st century culture.

Teachers' Domain

Featuring public television content, Teachers' Domain provides multimedia classroom resources and professional development courses to K-12 educators. KQED contributes to the collection of resources within the archive with content from KQED programs that focus on local topics related to science, the environment and nature. Teachers' Domain is a searchable database of free, high-quality multimedia content available to stream, download, share and remix.

The resources found in Teachers' Domain include video and audio clips, interactive features, images, and documents prepared from the best of PBS programs and universities across the country. You will also find accompanying explanatory background articles and media-rich lesson plans - all correlated to state and national curriculum standards.

Blog: media.infusion @ PBS Teachers

Meeting the Needs of Adolescent Learners with Media and Technology

October is Month of the Young Adolescent (MOYA), a time to celebrate the skills and accomplishments of 10 to 15-year-olds while focusing on the unique needs of this age group. During these years when young bodies and minds are changing rapidly, educators must be mindful of providing academically rigorous learning while supporting the developmental and social needs of the middle level student.

This We Believe: Successful Schools for Young Adolescents, the foundational position paper of National Middle School Association (NMSA), describes the characteristics that such schools must exhibit. Among the recommendations are that learning must be relevant, challenging, integrative, exploratory, collaborative, and active. Students must be able to see how subjects are connected and how learning is connected to their lives. They must be led to use critical and higher order thinking skills and experience a variety of teaching methods. I can think of no better way to address these needs than through the use of technology and media!