Project Grant 2442221

This $263,712 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, supports a 5-year research project by The Johns Hopkins University to enhance privacy literacy for elementary school children. The project will develop a new learning model that builds long-term partnerships among families, schools, and community organizations to reinforce privacy concepts, foster critical thinking about privacy, and help young children navigate the digital landscape with confidence. Key project activities include conducting interviews, focus groups, and co-design sessions to identify opportunities and challenges in supporting these stakeholder partnerships, as well as a 3-year field deployment study to examine the long-term impact of this partnership-enabled privacy education approach on children's privacy literacy development. The research aims to yield a novel privacy education framework, design guidelines for collaborative tools, insights into the long-term impacts of privacy education, and an annotated dataset of children's privacy literacy progress.