Submissions for TeachTech are due February 15, 2010. No submissions will be accepted after that date.
All proposals must be submitted via the TeachTech Award Proposal Form. All entries will become property of Columbia University. The project descriptions of the finalists and winner of the annual TeachTech Award will be made available to all NALS schools.
Only faculty members at NALS schools or individual NALS members are eligible to apply. All qualified faculty members are urged to consider entering the 2010 awards program. Winners and finalists will be announced on March 15, 2010 and will receive their prizes: $5,000 for winner and $500 for finalists.
Proposal Guidelines
All project proposals should include, in addition to basic information about the project, the following sections.
Describe the classroom project that you are proposing for consideration. In what educational setting was the project deployed (e.g. sixth grade science, third grade integrated art and mathematics)? What are the learning objectives and pedagogical goals? What was the project's duration? Provide a brief "use case" scenario--that is, a description of how the project was experienced from the perspective of a student or teacher from the beginning to the end. What were the activities in which the participants were involved? In what way did the students' experiences prepare them for independent exploration of technology? You may include demonstrations of student work emphasizing the achievement of the pedagogical goal. It may be in the form of schematic, flow chart, screen diagram, or link a video or other supplemental materials such as an appendix. Although this is not an absolute requirement, you are strongly encouraged to include it electronically.
What opportunities, challenges or problems -- educational and/or technological -- did this project address? Why might this project be of value to teachers and/or students in other classrooms at other schools? What is the generic approach of incorporation of this technology in pedagogy in settings other/ different than yours (for e.g. if your project is targeted towards a fifth grade mathematics class, can it be adapted to a seventh grade history class, and how)? How did you measure the effectiveness of the educational value of the project?
What experiences and/or ideas led to your design and implementation of this project? Were there any similar or analogous projects that you investigated when designing your project? If so, how did it benefit your study? What technologies or technological concepts helped contribute to your project's design?
Provide a detailed description of the technologies that were used to implement your project. Why were these technologies selected as opposed to other alternatives? What were the complications -- expected and unforeseen -- faced by the participants (students and teacher/s) during the implementation of the project? How were these overcome? Was the implementation seriously affected by any of these?
Questions regarding the grant may be directed to ccnmtl-teachtech@columbia.edu.