In the first video, with Alannah Young (First Nations counsellor)

What caught my interest:

• Communities define elders.
• Through ceremonies: build relationships.

 “Wholism” was linked with

• balance of male and female
• giving value to locals

Amy Parent (Masters student in Educational Studies)

Her research focused on Aboriginal youth their relationship to traditional knowledge in urban settings.

• Indigenous knowledge important in their lives
  • Wholism meant something to them
• Indigenous knowledge a process for native youths
  • Indigenous knowledge can be expressed in different ways
  • No youth talked about technology / hip hop
• Need for place based education; getting out of the city
• Youth want to know about their languages

LOVE THIS:
Real Youth:

• film / taught how to make claymation videos
• Film competition
  • Won awards

Of course I am the Digital Film Communication Curriculum Leader at my school and I really do believe that digital film can be an incredible means of expression for young people.

When making a simple animation; a public service announcement or a short narrative, students take charge of their learning. That’s why they did not want to leave at the end… it was “their” film… they took ownership. That’s powerful!

The reason why young Aboriginals did not talk of the technology, in my opinion, is that they were talking of substance, not tools. In education, technology should be a means to communicate. Not a goal in itself. That being said, we all know that it affects the message…

 

 

 

 

 

 Amy Parent