Project Grant SPO50022GR0028

This Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support the WGBH Educational Foundation in creating educational resources to improve access to public media archives. Under the $213,358 award provided through the National Leadership Grants program, the Foundation will develop 20 sets of primary resources featuring archival public television and radio programming aligned with commonly taught topics in American history and current events. The sets will include teaching...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $200,000 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to engage high school youth in Philadelphia in learning about algorithmic justice through audits of machine learning applications. The one-year study involves high school students designing everyday machine learning apps and collaboratively conducting algorithm audits to understand issues of fairness, accountability, and justice....

This federal Project Grant award of $1,128,776.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the American History and Civics Education program (CFDA 84.422), supports KQED Inc.'s "Action Civics" initiative. The project aims to connect middle and high school social studies curriculum to media creation, targeting students from low-income and underserved populations. The one-year project, commencing on October 1, 2024, and concluding...

The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) was awarded a $164,340 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program. The grant will fund the development of the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliterature, a dynamic and sustainable collection of open educational resources to enhance algorithm, data, and media literacy for learners aged high school and above. The project focuses on three areas: algorithm and AI...

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...

The Christa McAuliffe Center for Integrated Science Learning at Framingham State University will implement a team mentorship and project-based learning program for local high school students under a $202,094 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America program. The program will task participants with creating campaigns in the form of exhibits, videos, and presentations to increase awareness of environmental challenges. This will help participants...

This Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program, will fund a two-year applied research project to investigate methods for preserving personalized digital advertisements viewed live by users. The award of $398,927 to Drexel University, in collaboration with Old Dominion University, aims to develop best practice guidelines and tools for reconstructing ads from archived web content and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program provides $200,000 to support a time-sensitive project that aims to empower teachers to harness the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to create interactive, personalized STEM learning resources. The project team, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will partner with WGBH Educational Foundation to develop a teacher-AI...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc. a $100,000 project grant under the National Leadership Grants program to produce One Brooklyn TV in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. One Brooklyn TV will bring educational media content to over 550,000 households in Brooklyn, providing students access to remote curriculum and instructional videos regardless of internet access. Now in its second year, the program will focus on creating...

The American Film Institute (AFI) received a $132,708 project grant award from the U.S. Department of Education under the Education Stabilization Fund program. The grant period runs from July 31, 2021 through July 31, 2022. The Education Stabilization Fund program provides funding to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. AFI will use the grant funds to deliver services that address the impacts of the pandemic on the education sector in Los Angeles, California. While details...