High-tech history grants.New media, meet civics civics, branch of learning that treats of the relationship between citizens and their society and state, originally called civil government. With the large immigration into the United States in the latter half of the 19th cent. education. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private non-profit corporation which is chartered and funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting. The CPB was created on November 7, 1967 when U.S. president Lyndon B. has launched a $20 million initiative to take American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of history and civics education into the 21st century. With young people today being so comfortable with interactive technologies such as the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and video games See video game console. , it's the ideal time for "curriculum and content developers to design new, perhaps revolutionary, models for teaching and learning," says Eben A. Peck peck: see English units of measurement. , the corporation's director of government affairs. By awarding public/private partnership grants over the next three years, CPB's aims to help educators collaborate with content developers, broadcasters, documentary film makers and high-tech companies to improve American history and civics education in middle and high schools. The American History and Civics Initiative grants will fund media projects and methods that go beyond existing educational materials--such as documentaries produced by public television stations that have made their way into classrooms--in creativity and innovation. Proposals that enhance the teaching and learning of key events, people, documents, movements, ideas, values and principles that are fundamental to America are sought; the deadline is Nov. 1. Peck expects to see proposals for projects at the school, district, region and state levels and suggests that administrators contact their local or regional public broadcasters to explore project possibilities. www.cpb.org/grants/historyandcivics |
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