Project Grant SCI80020GR0009

This $177,306 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support "RESPONSIBLE, ETHICAL, AND EFFECTIVE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES FOR THE INTEGRATION OF GENERATIVE AI IN US SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND BEYOND". The project will convene a Generative AI (GenAI) Working Group comprised of diverse school and district leaders to: Write, adapt, and share sample GenAI Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) for a range of district contexts. Work with their...

This Project Grant award of $342,906 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey's Newark campus. The project aims to explore how children's early media experiences shape their expectations for learning from digital media devices, and how those expectations impact their STEM learning outcomes. Using a combination of behavioral, physiological, and computational approaches, the research will examine...

New York University was awarded a $374,400 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the development of curricular resources and tools to advance middle school students' critical data literacy skills. Over the three-year period from July 2023 to June 2026, New York University will collaborate with 10 teachers across four schools to co-design curricula and remixing tools that...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides $156,000 to Northwestern University to rapidly develop and research a set of "unplugged" hands-on learning activities for teaching middle-school students about artificial intelligence (AI). The project aims to create an open-source repository of up to 15 hands-on, low-cost AI literacy activities that can be led by educators...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings provides $902,020 to Indiana University from May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2026. The funding supports development of a curriculum to teach middle school students network visualization and data literacy concepts through exploration of topics relevant to their identities and communities. Specifically, the awardee will design, implement and study an instructional...

This $1,736,866 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports research on community-situated data practices in multiethnic, youth-led research partnerships. The project aims to broaden STEM research and education by centering the cultural epistemologies of racially, ethnically, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse communities. The research team will conduct a multi-year qualitative study to explore how...

This $125,843 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports the development of digital safety educational materials and training for elementary school students. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the North Carolina State University project will design a comprehensive suite of materials covering topics such as cyberbullying, digital security, privacy, identity, and proper online communication. The materials will be disseminated through workshops training 40...

The Santa Clara County Office of Education was awarded a $924,479 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. The grant will support the "Culturally-Responsive Teaching for Supporting Positive Computer Science Identities among Latinx Girls" project from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. Under this award, the Santa Clara County Office of Education will implement culturally responsive teaching methods to support...

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...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research and development focused on customizable integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum for middle school classrooms. The $849,931 project aims to work with 18 teachers and up to 4,800 students in underrepresented STEM populations to investigate how teachers can customize computationally-rich, Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-aligned curricular...