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Title: "Those don't work for us": An Assets-Based Approach to Incorporating Emerging Technologies in Viable Hawaiian Teacher Support Tools for Culturally Relevant CS Education
Hawaiian bilingual language immersion (Kaiapuni) schools infuse curricula with place-based education to increase student connection to culture. However, stand-in teachers often lack the background and tools needed to support immersion learning, resulting in discontinuity for students in their culturally relevant education. This experience report describes a partnership between the Ka Moamoa Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ke Kula Kaiapuni 'O Pu'ohala School to design a teacher-substitute support platform via a hybrid of assets-based design methodology and emerging technology capabilities. We share insights offered by teachers and design requirements for such a platform. We also reflect on how HCI methodologies should adapt to center and respect Native Hawaiian perspectives.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2345488 2137784
PAR ID:
10548521
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT ‘24)
Date Published:
ISBN:
9798400706264
Page Range / eLocation ID:
224 to 230
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
EdTech Culturally-relevant CS Place-based computing Indigenous knowledge Hawaiʻi
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Atlanta GA USA
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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