E-learning ‘key to indigenous education’
I read an interesting article today in the Sydney Morning Herald, on how e-learning is the key to success for indigenous students. The article suggests that the language barriers at remote Aboriginal bush schools can be overcome with digital learning.
According to the National Assessment Program in Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), the NT has the highest number of students falling below the minimum standard across each year level in all areas of reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy. A lecturer at Charles Darwin Uuniversity, Ruth Wallace said the e-learning software was proving to be an effective tool in the education of Aboriginal children.
In the article she states ‘it’s about bringing in content that’s relevant to the indigenous learner’s world and connecting them with other worlds that may be similar or of relevance to them’.
Here we have another example of the great opportunites that digital technologies bring to our students!
The article can be found at:
http://news.smh.com.au/national/elearning-key-to-indigenous-education-20081107-5jx1.html
