The CPB STEM Digital Media Resources for Learning Production Grants will provide grant funding to enable public broadcasting stations to develop, produce and evaluate Digital Media Resources which may include audio, video, interactives, animations, documents, games, simulations and images. Funds are available for up to 12 grants of $75,000-$125,000. Grants will create content to support the Middle School (Grades 4-8) Earth Sciences with an emphasis on Climate.
Primary goals of this initiative include:
- Building an inventory of digital media resources for learning to be shared among public broadcasting stations and educational organizations;
- Creating content around STEM concepts that are difficult to teach and learn;
- Building upon and expanding content collections available via the PBS Education Digital Content Asset Repository (EDCAR), Teachers’ Domain, Thinkport, Utah Educational Network’s eMedia, and other public broadcasting digital media distribution systems;
- Fostering 21st Century learning skills, such as creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and communication and collaboration, in flexible learning environments;
- Increasing station capacity for partnering with state educational organizations, scientists, museums and science educators;
- Creating an economically attractive content production model and developing capacity of stations to create new digital media tools; and
- Measuring and evaluating impact of learning to help direct future content investments.