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Auld, Glenn; Dyer, Julie; Charles, Claire – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
This paper seeks to explore the risks of providing preservice teachers with professional experiences in remote communities. In particular this paper focuses on the risks associated with this kind of professional experience. Twelve pre-service teachers were interviewed whilst on a three-week practicum around Katherine and in Maningrida in the…
Descriptors: Practicums, Rural Areas, Indigenous Populations, Culture Conflict
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Auld, Glenn; Snyder, Ilana; Henderson, Michael – Language and Education, 2012
Despite massive funding from the Australian government, the literacy achievement of Australian Indigenous children remains significantly lower than for non-Indigenous. With the aim of identifying innovative ways to improve Indigenous children's literacy achievement, this study explored the social practices surrounding everyday mobile phone use by…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Literacy
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Darcy, Rose; Auld, Glenn – Australian Educational Computing, 2008
The use of ICTs to support literacy in a minority Indigenous Australian language is an important domain of pedagogy that is often overlooked by teachers in these contexts. The development of new technological configurations in remote communities can be highly supportive of Indigenous languages spoken by a small number of people. This paper reports…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Educational Technology, Family Environment, Teaching Methods
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Auld, Glenn – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
Members of the Kunibidji community are the traditional owners of the lands and seas around Maningrida, a remote community in Northern Australia. Most of the 200 members of the Kunibidji Community speak Ndjebbana as their first language. This study reports on the complexities of transforming technology to provide Kunibidji children with access to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Languages, Computer Uses in Education
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Auld, Glenn – Language Learning & Technology, 2002
Reports on research on an application of computer assisted language learning implemented among the Kunibidji, a remote, indigenous Australian community. Focuses on the use of talking books in Ndjebbana, a language with only 200 speakers. Investigation into the roles of the computer to support language learning and cultural understanding are also…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Auld, Glenn – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2002
In a remote Aboriginal Australian (Kunibidji) community, three touch-screen computers containing 96 Ndjebbana-language talking books were made available to children in informal settings. The computers' popularity is explained by the touch screens' form and the talking books' intertextual and hybrid nature. The Kunibidji are transforming their…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Australian Aboriginal Languages, Children, Computer Terminals