Empowering Students as Caretakers of Place in the Digital Age
Digital tools make it easy to copy and publish media in seconds, but access is not ownership, and recording is not permission. In the latest Global GEG event, Aotearoa New Zealand educator Rachel Duckworth breaks down how to integrate indigenous knowledge and local narratives into the classroom without stripping away authentic cultural context. From exploring the Māori concepts of whenua (land connection) and tūrangawaewae (a place to stand) to implementing a five-step framework that turns passive consumers into responsible caretakers (kaitiaki), discover how to use the Google ecosystem to anchor students in the living stories of their own communities.
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