Public Media Innovation
PMI Program Updates
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
ROUND FOUR PROJECTS SELECTED
Round Four of the PMI Fund focused on funding educationally-oriented projects that support public broadcasting's role to increase economic and financial literacy. Investments were placed in new media educational tools, applications and content aimed at helping students — both adults and children — , teachers and parents understand and cope with the current economic crisis.
The total funds available for this round was $205,000.
Funded projects are:
* KQED/San Francisco - "Financial Literacy in the ESL Classroom"
* WPSU/University Park PA - "Responding to the Job Crisis"
* Maryland Public Television (MPT) - "SCOPE (Students Create Original Projects to Educate"
* KNBA/Anchorage - "What's Going on in Alaska?"
* Wisconsin Education Communications Board - "Financial Literacy: PARENT IT"
* KUEN/Salt Lake City - "Financial Media for Utah Teachers"
* North Country Public Radio/Canton NY - "Common Wealth, Common Wisdom"
| Grantee | Project | On-line Information | Report |
| KQED | Financial Literacy in the ESL Classroom will create a media-rich on-line financial literacy curriculum for ESL (English as a second language) educators and their adult students via repurposing existing tools, content, etc. from the public media system and enhancing these with structured lesson plans. | http://www.kqed.org/ | |
| WPSU | Responding to the Job Crisis will develop a web-centric, map-driven educational resource to help users in central Pennsylvaniaq understand and respond to the job crisis in their communities. | http://www.wpsu.org/ | |
| MPT | SCOPE (Students Create Original Projects to Educate) will help local school districts enhance and support the existing financial literacy curriculum by having high school students create on-line games and other digital media that will be used to teach younger students about key financial concepts. | ||
| KNBA | What's Going on in Alaska? will create, publicize and deliver a radio and web series on the current economic crisis, its efects in Alaska and basic economic and financial concepts to help build economic and financial literacy in the south-central Alaska community with emphasis on Alaska's native American population. | ||
| Wisc ECB | Financial Literacy: PARENT IT will add a parent component to ECB's current teacher development personal financial literacy project by providing a wide range of on-line support materials and short videos that use model parent-child conversations to show parents how to talk to kids about key financial issues. | ||
| KUEN | Financial Media for Utah Teachers will create a multi-media K-12 financial education web-site, a week long series of financial and economic broadcast programs and a web-based teacher development program to help meet the state's newly mandated financial education standards. | ||
| NCPR | Common Wealth, Common Wisdom will enable a group of local teenagers to work with community "elders" who lived through the Great Depression to capture their key experiences and lessons learned from that era. The project will share these experiences/learnings via a wide variety of multi-media and face-to-face presentations to build a "social space" where financial survival and entrepreneurial skills and stories can be shared across generations and economic strata. |
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