Grant Proposals
Internal Grant Proposals
TLT Proposal 2017
Multilingual Multicultural Multimedia: Globally Connected Mobile Learning Projects
Abstract
The goal of this transdisciplinary project is to develop a research-based globally connected Multilingual Multicultural Mobile app that promotes world literature, history, and culture among K12 students. By collaborating with our graduate and undergraduate research students in this project, we plan to infuse 21st-century skills and develop global literacies through project-based learning activities in the K12 classroom while collaborating in-service and pre-service teachers. NYIT students in the project not only collect and analyze data and develop educational apps but also advance their own learning and contribute new understanding to the global scientific community. There are three main outcomes of this open-source and multiplatform project:
Educational app that is replicable and publishable in mini book format and open to public to collaborate and contribute to an online digital library repository.
Student and teacher tested, research-based Global Curriculum Library Toolkit that can be used in K12 classrooms.
GoSTEAM projects that promote international collaoration, co-publications and co-presentations between students sand faculty in NYIT and Baku American Center, Azerbaijan.
ISRC Proposal 2017
Investigating the role of Global Competencies and 21st Century Skills in Promoting Healthy Eating Behaviors Among Children: Engaging Pre- and In-Service teachers in Developing Globally Connected Project Based Activities: Participatory Action Research
Abstract
The Global Kitchen Project promotes global competencies, health education, and 21st century skills educational technologies among K-12 students, offers creative strategies for developing culturally and linguistically responsive Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework while integrating global education and media literacy skills into the K12 curriculum with limited resources, and describes participants’ reactions, discoveries, and experiences with new media. Situated within the context of teaching and learning, this Participatory Action Research (PAR) project aims to advance scientific knowledge of transdisciplinary, project-based curriculum revolving around global nutrition education as a means to promote healthy eating habits among young children in low-income schools while developing media literacy skills and global competencies and offering the tools to teach children ages 8-15 years about nutrition in a meaningful, integrated way as well as outlining the impact of globally connected classroom projects.