This Project Grant award of $1,380,596 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the collaborative development of 24 Spanish-English interactive e-books to enhance science learning for Latino children aged 4-7. The University of California, Irvine will work with Latino families in California and Michigan to co-design the e-books, which will feature AI-powered conversational agents and family discussion prompts to encourage parent-child...
This $1,117,913 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support the development and study of 34 Spanish and English language podcast episodes for Latinx families with children ages 5-9. The goal is to create "culturally situated" STEM podcasts that leverage existing family routines and values to engage children in STEM activities and conversations, with the aim of supporting STEM identity development. The...
This $733,043 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaboration among community leaders, educators, and researchers to co-create early engineering learning opportunities for Latinx families. The project focuses on leveraging Latinx families' oral storytelling practices to design hands-on engineering activities that are culturally relevant and meaningful. Over 90 Latinx caregivers and their 5- to 8-year-old...
This $299,997 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), is supporting the development of an AI-powered, app-based platform to deliver targeted instructional feedback and professional development to early childhood educators. The research team at the University of Notre Dame, the grant recipient, is collaborating with early education teachers to co-design the platform, which aims to provide timely feedback on teachers' shared book...
This $725,836 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support the integration of a culturally relevant digital curriculum into U.S. science dual language immersion programs. The project aims to improve science education accessibility and engagement for marginalized Latinx youth, particularly those of indigenous heritage, by incorporating indigenous knowledge and epistemologies into the science curriculum. The...
This $798,619 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to increase opportunities for success for STEM students at two Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in central Florida. The key products and services to be delivered under this four-year project include: Developing assessments using generative AI technology to provide flexible testing options, such as increased accessibility, multiple attempts, and sharing across instructors and...
This $787,042 federal grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a collaborative research project titled "From Stories to Solutions: Engaging Latinx Families as Design Partners to Advance Equitable Informal Engineering Learning Opportunities for Young Children." The project is a partnership between community leaders at Palenque LSNA, educators at the Chicago Children's Museum, and researchers at Loyola University Chicago. The...
This $554,667 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the development of an integrated artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum and educational robotics program for 4th and 5th grade students in linguistically diverse classrooms in Clark County, Nevada. The three-year project aims to cultivate AI literacy and computer science (CS) skills among elementary students, particularly those from underrepresented populations....
This $199,503 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will fund a large-scale, mixed-methods study to understand perceptions and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in K-12 education. The one-year project will survey a nationally representative sample of parents, teachers, and youth to identify opportunities, risks, and supports needed for integrating AI-driven learning tools. The study will employ both...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,920 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York. The grant, titled "RAPID: Exploring an AI Literacies Framework for Young Children: A Delphi Study," will develop an interdisciplinary framework for early childhood education (ECE) on artificial intelligence (AI). The project will convene a panel of 30 diverse experts from the fields of AI, child...