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This page explores how to build a learning community around a program in any school today based on indigenous knowledge, educational technology integration and emerging pedagogy. By combining many of the ideas and examples from this wiki, I am considering a:Learning Spirit Framework
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We are poised to see where an Indian education may go and the bets paths it may take to get there. The top of this mountain is a place to contemplate the choices that we must make about the future of education. Each choice implies an orientation, inherent consequences, and a set of possible paths. I believe that this is the place that all education has reached in our global village. All education is rooted in,or has evolved from, an Indigenous past. In reality, all education is founded upon Indigenous basics." (Gregory Cajete, 1994,p.187)
This page explores how to build a learning community around a program in any school today based on indigenous knowledge, educational technology integration and emerging pedagogy. By combining many of the ideas and examples from this wiki, I am considering a:Learning Spirit Framework
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How we Learn - Indigenous Knowledge and Pedagogy
The leaders of the program should consider the integration of inquiry based learning practices, authentic experiential learning and technology integration similar to the examples on this wiki. The primary considerations needs to be the learner - how do encourage the learning spirit. Before an educator considers any framework, they must consider how to promote a positive and engaging learning environment.
and Life ManagementManagementCTS Mentoring Courses
Cross Cultural Standards:A version of RURE Standards
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Digital Literacy Competencies:Mozilla Web Literacy Standard
learning community. In fact, if possible, elders should be included in the creation of the learning environment/program when at all possible.
Learning Environment:If possible, the program needs to be outside on the land as well as in a safe building. Any digital learning should also be offered in a safe, supportive area. Digital access includes access to the web 2.0 tools and Internet. To ensure digital support and a safe digital environment for all learners, online scaffolding tools like Grovo could be provided.
Content and Resources:
as an ePorfolioePortfolio to collect
Learning Network:While the learning community represents the immediate people that will support a learner, the learning network represents the Personal Learning Network PLN of each individual learner.
Evidence of Learning:Parental/Guardian Consent to Use the InternetExamples:Verena Roberts' Consent FormBryan Jackson's Consent Form
Some examples of rubrics or ideas for rubrics are:
Bryan Jackson's Intro Guitar Course:
AssessmentIntroGuitarAssessment
IntroGuitar Assignments -
Matthew Turner's Video Storytelling Rubrics
learning experience {TWA
{TWA Video rubric.docx.pdf} Storytelling Rubric {DigitalStorytelling
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Verena Roberts' AB Inspiring Ed Competency Based Rubric
#BEFA12 Rubric - Personal Learning
References:
Cajete, G. (1994) Look to the Mountain: An ecology of Indigenous Education. Kivaki Press. Colorado.
Roberts, V. (2013) Moocifying k12: Realtionships, Collaboration, Risk Taking. Hybrid Pedagogy. Retrieved from http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/MOOCifying_K-12.html

Something to consider - interdisciplinary, collaborated learning and community based peer and instructor formative assessment as described in the article, One Room Schoolhouse.
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References:
Cajete, G. (1994) Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education. Kivaki Press. Colorado.

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Evidence of LearningAlternative Assessment
OptionsLearningHow we can show how we learn and what we learn
This is a collection of resources to promote alternative assessment opportunities based on indigenous knowledge and inquiry based learning.
In this video, Sir Ken Robinson describes the possibilities of transforming from a standardized education system to a personalized one. An authentic learning experience that encourages each learner to shape their own learning.

Understanding the Learning Spirit -
Learning is a journey to discover and understand what our spirit is set to accomplish. It is a search for inner knowledge came from the connections that they made with those physical and metaphysical elements in their territories and became the source of knowing that remains the core of Indigenous knowledge.
The Aboriginal Learning and Knowledge Centre published a report called, //Moving from the Head to the Heart//. The report focuses on how to reclaim the learning spirit based on the past, present and future of Aboriginal education in Canada.
What is Indigenous knowledge?
The holistic, practical, and common knowledge that has been gathered over thousands of years of observation and interaction with the land; it is passed on from generation to generation through practice, oral stories, dance, and art.