One question that may have come to minds of those examining technology and Indigenous education is the language barrier. Do the tools that are used to facilitate contemporary online interaction restricted in their ability to interface with traditional languages?

http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tetaka/PDF/IndigELearn.pdf

This very interesting paper from New Zealand documents the adaptation of interfaces towards Maori language. This paper outlines some of the fundamental challenges that need to be overcome in any such adaptation. Some basic ideas that are assumed to be ‘universal’ in fact do not have a role within traditional indigenous cultures and needed to be considered in any redesigned technology interface.