Tag Archives: Technology

Wearable Tech/Immersive Learning (Module 3-Post 3)

Immersing oneself in an educational experience is common theme in Indigenous education. As discussed in post 1, technology has the ability to make this a reality when the necessary “experiences” are not readily available to the educator. Emerging wearable technology is seen as the technological bridge that could bridge human experience to simulated location. My research in making technology more emotionally sound, has resulted identifying technology that not only reacts to our emotions, but keeps us more in touch with our emotions. This webpage explores various wearable technology that simulates human touch (haptics), and augmented reality to create authentic educational experiences. These experiences align with the Indigenous vision of education, with the assistance of technology for the 21^st century learner.

http://www.edudemic.com/wearable-tech-mean-classroom/

Module 3 / Post 5: Teaching Indigenous Languages Books

Teaching Indigenous Languages Books is a webpage that features many articles on Indigenous language instruction. There are some great articles featured here that tie into my research quite nicely. Specifically, I like the articles on The Pedagogical Potential of Multimedia Dictionaries and Indigenous Language Revitalization and Technology. There are many more great articles on this site and this is definitely a good starting point for anyone wanting to learn more about Indigenous language revitalization.

Module 3.2: InTime (Integrating New Technologies into the Methods of Education)

Post 2: InTime (Integrating New Technologies into the Methods of Education)

http://www.intime.uni.edu/multiculture/curriculum/culture.htm

InTime is a website that is designed to help educators of all grade levels integrate technology and multicultural education into the classroom. They provide models, videos, case studies, and questions that educators can incorporate into the classroom to improve learning in all areas. While this site does not focus solely on Indigenous learners, the models and methods could be applied to any cultural aspects. Also included in this website is a section on culturally responsive education.

Module 3.1 – Intercontinental Cry

Intercontinental Cry is a magazine/web journal that serves to “amplify the voices and strengthen the efforts of Indigenous Peoples around the world” due to the significant lack of representation of Indigenous people in news media.

What I was particularly interested in at this point was the fact that this website is very focused on using Indigenous writers to speak on their own experiences. Much of the academic literature on Canadian First Nations, Aboriginal, Inuit, and Metis populations is written by white researchers, probably due to their familiarity with the publication cycle and their access to services that help them to gain publication. Fortunately a resource like IC helps authors with potentially less access to traditional streams of publication to have their voices heard, amplified, and shared with the world via the internet.

I think this could be a useful resource particularly at the high school level, for students to read and reflect on the impact of Indigenous voices on the Web.

Native Resolution, RezWorld and Skins

“By immersing Native Americans in their traditional languages and customs, Thornton hopes to teach them how to preserve parts of their culture in danger of dying out.”

The article linked to below explores the work of Don Thornton who created a language education game called RezWorld. The first iteration of this game was in Cherokee, but it can be adapted for any language. The article also leads us to the abtec website and to the Skins project (link below).

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/issues/issue_184/5652-Native-Resolution

http://www.abtec.org/

On the AbTec.org site is a network of people dedicated to encouraging aboriginal presence in the areas of “web-pages, online games, and virtual environments that we call cyberspace.” The site has articles outlining the curriculum for game design for First Nations youth (E.g.: Skins 1.0: A Curriculum for Designing Games with First Nations Youth).

Post by Trevor Price

July 4, 2015

Media Smarts

http://mediasmarts.ca/digital-media-literacy/media-issues/diversity-media/aboriginal-people/aboriginal-expression-arts-media

‘In the 19^th century, Métis leader Louis Riel predicted: “My people will sleep for one hundred years. When they awaken, it will be the artists who give them back their spirit.” Most Aboriginal groups in Canada have relied on the oral tradition to convey an idea, message or value.’

– n.a. Media Smarts

Discusses FN successes with tv, film and theatre, music and radio neworks and the Internet. Although not specific to youth, the article gives a good overview of media, but also points to a game – Path of the Elders (http://www.pathoftheelders.com/index.php) by FN people and for FN children.

Post by Trevor Price

July 4, 2015

Module 2: Post 5

Technology Making us More Human?

This resource is interesting in that it provides an alternative view to much of the research on technology and how it is making us less emotionally sound and less aware/considerate of our own and other emotions. However, alternative views such as the ones expressed in this article provide a scope that technology may be the answer to making us more human because it gives us the opportunity to change the circumstances that surround us more rapidly than ever before. Technology, according to this resource allows people to tap into their inborn creativity and becoming creators of extraordinary solutions. This perspective is of interest in that it provides an alternative view to my research that technology may provide us the opportunity to be more human, as apposed to shutting our humanity out of what makes us educated or productive.

https://medium.com/davos-2015/why-technology-actually-makes-us-more-human-70f574962d3b

Module 2: Post 3

Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability

This resource, created by UNESCO serves as an excellent guide to what separates Indigenous knowledge and education from formal education. It points out that sophisticated knowledge is not confined to science, but also rich experiences and emotions relating to the environment from which the knowledge hailed. Information on this website will serve as a guide to indigenous educational tactics, and provide a base for my research on how to use technology to deliver emotional education as apposed to the formal education currently being delivered via technology, which excludes the spiritual, emotional and is weak in local knowledge.

http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/mods/theme_c/mod11.html

Module 2: Post 2

How Technology Affects Students Socio-Emotional Learning

This is a video page on the Oxford Learning Blog, where Sherry Turkle, a professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT points out that over the past 20 years there has been a 40% decline in college students on measurements of empathy. Turkle describes her research of where devices now, when used inappropriately get in the way of very basic important human feelings and that transforms the nature of the relationships. This resource is of interest in that it supports my initial research assumptions that technology negatively impacts emotional learning, and thus techniques must be innovated to harmonize educational technology and socio-emotional development.

http://www.oxfordlearning.com/2015/02/06/how-technology-affects-kids-social-and-emotional-learning/

Module 2: Post 1

Technology Enhanced Social-Emotional Activities

This website has been designed to describe technology activities that facilitate social emotional learning. This resource serves as a practical toolkit for educators looking to enhance technology practices while maintaining and enhancing students’ emotional well-being. This resource is valuable in terms of my research topic, as I will be exploring methods in which technology can be used to interpret knowledge through emotional experiences, as apposed to traditional knowledge transfer.

http://seltechnology.weebly.com