Incorporating First Nations Australians Histories and Cultures into Digital Technologies – workshop
Channel: CSER - The Computer Science Education Research Group
Date: 2022-10-27

Presenters: Jesse King, Chief of Impact, Stronger Smarter Institute (SSI) and Toni Falusi: Project Officer, CSER STEM Professional Learning Team (CSER) 

Target Audience: Primary and secondary classroom teachers with an interest in Digital Technologies 

Description: The University of Adelaide's CSER Team and Stronger Smarter Institute present a joint workshop to build teachers’ capacity to incorporate culturally responsive approaches within Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies lessons. 

The session will demonstrate approaches to leverage the three-dimensional design of the Australian Curriculum by authentically incorporating General Capabilities and the Cross Curriculum Priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures through the Digital Technologies subject area. Specific topics of data, algorithms and programming for Years 3-4 and Years 5-6 bands will be used as examples. Although we focus on these year levels as a scope for this specific workshop, teachers will be invited to reflect on how they could adapt lessons for their own year levels. 

This session responds to two distinct needs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education (ACARA, 2022): 
- that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students are able to see themselves, their identities and their cultures reflected in the curriculum of each of the learning areas, can fully participate in the curriculum and can build their self-esteem 
- that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures cross-curriculum priority is designed for all students to engage in reconciliation, respect and recognition of the world’s oldest continuous living cultures. 

CSER and SSI would like to acknowledge Google Asia Pacific for funding this workshop via a Google ‘Educator Grant 2022’.