If young Aboriginal people are using computers doesn that impair their learning to traditional knowledge, and alienate them from their culture?
In all communities that have access to information communication technologies (ICTs) there are some children who get a ‘kick’ out of using them, and others who find them boring. Some children can for a time get fixated. Children in Indigenous communities are no exception. Aboriginal children drawn to using computers and digital media will, like all children use them to express their feelings and culture. We often find Aboriginal children doing this in highly original ways. Just as we know that proficiency in two distinct languages can lead to a form of cognitive enhancement for children, seems likely that becoming skilled in using digital/digitising technologies could lead to enhancement of capacities in traditional arenas of learning.
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