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Talking books for children's home use in a minority Indigenous Australian language context
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 Kunibídji children with access to digital texts at home. The printed Ndjebbana texts that were kept at school were transformed to Ndjebbana talking books displayed on touch screen computers in the children's homes. Some results of the children's interaction around these touch screens are presented as well as some quantitative results of the computer viewing in the homes. The processes of rejecting technological determinism, upholding linguistic human rights of speakers of minority languages and viewing technology as practice rather than a set of artefacts are discussed in this paper. The results of this study highlight the need for speakers of minority Indigenous Australian languages to have access to texts in their threatened languages on technologies at home.
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Australasian journal of educational technologyVolume
23Issue
1Pagination
48 - 67Publisher
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (A S C I L I T E)Location
Dickson, A.C.T.ISSN
1449-3098eISSN
1449-5554Indigenous content
This research output may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. We apologise for any distress that may occur.Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2007, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary EducationUsage metrics
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