{"id":367,"date":"2022-09-16T11:10:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/?p=367"},"modified":"2022-09-16T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:16:58","slug":"mikaela-jade-bringing-attention-to-indigenous-knowledge-through-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/mikaela-jade-bringing-attention-to-indigenous-knowledge-through-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Jade: Bringing attention to Indigenous knowledge through technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Indigenous educational technology is not yet a universal term in the ed-tech field, but it soon could be with the help of Mikaela Jade. Jade is an Indigenous Cabrogal woman from Australia who has deep connections with the land (Ball, 2022). Her initial career was as a park ranger in Australia where she soon realized that many visitors were unaware of the significance of the land from a First Peoples’ perspective and wanted to share this knowledge with others in a meaningful, relevant way. Her experience at university led her to an interest in augmented reality<\/a> (AR) and the development of Indigital<\/a>, an \u201cIndigenous Edu-Tech company\u201d (Indigital, n.d.). Indigital uses technology to educate and connect with both indigenous and nonindigenous people, focusing on a First Peoples’ cultural knowledge of the land (Questacon, 2017). Indigital\u2019s goal is to also provide opportunities for indigenous peoples to gain access to a digital world (Indigital, n.d.).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Image retrieved from https:\/\/indigital.net.au <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jade illustrates the importance of perspective in a digital world. She identifies as both woman and indigenous, two relatively underrepresented groups in the ed-tech field (Lynch, 2018). Jade discusses her female leadership role, amongst other topics, in the podcast \u201cThe Leadership Lessons\u201d<\/a>, a series that showcases successful and influential women (Chowdry, 2021). As part of an underrepresented group, she shows the potential to provide unique perspectives, address potential biases, and illustrate that marginalized groups have a place in technology (Mone, 2017). There is evidence that diversity in technology can allow for innovative, creative, and effective problem-solving, and Jade illustrates this as the founder and CEO of Indigital (Mone, 2017).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jade\u2019s innovative work with AR to share Indigenous knowledge can serve as an example for other countries to follow (Questacon, 2017). She discusses AR in an interview<\/a> with NEC\u2019s \u2018Women in Technology\u201d series (Ball, 2022). By implementing technology to share stories, Jade is marrying old-world knowledge with new-world technologies, bridging the gap between ancient and modern. Digitizing indigenous knowledge also helps to preserve history and allows easy access to key information (Lodhi & Mikulecky, 2010). Jade\u2019s work with Indigital provides a template for others to build upon, an important first step in being able to share indigenous knowledge using relevant technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ball, C. (2022, March 6). NEC Women in Tech Series – Mikaela Jade, CEO and Founder, InDigital<\/em> [Video]. YouTube. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mvk6xFbYTnA<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chowdry, S. (Host). (2021, July 1). Pursue the big idea regardless of your previous experience (Season 4, episode 4) [Audio podcast episode]. In The Leadership Lessons<\/em>. Agenda Media. https:\/\/shows.acast.com\/the-leadership-lessons\/episodes\/pursue-the-big-idea-regardless-of-your-previous-experience<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indigital (n.d.). Indigital<\/em>. https:\/\/indigital.net.au\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lodhi, S., & Mikulecky, P. (2010). Management of indigenous knowledge for developing countries. In V. Mladenov, K. Psarris, N. Mastorakis, A. Caballero, & G. Vachtsevanos (Eds.), Communication and management in technological innovation and academic globalization<\/em> (pp.94-98). WSEAS Press.\u00a0https:\/\/www.wseas.org\/multimedia\/books\/2010\/Tenerife\/COMATIA.pdf <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynch, M. (2018, Dec. 11). Analyzing ed-tech\u2019s diversity problem. The Tech Edvocate<\/em>. https:\/\/www.thetechedvocate.org\/analyzing-edtechs-diversity-problem\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mone, G. (2017). Bias in Technology. Communications of the ACM, 60 (<\/em>1), 19-20. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3014388<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questacon (2017, July 6). Indigital-using AR for Aboriginal storytelling [Video]. YouTube. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=noPFpWMdWcA<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indigenous educational technology is not yet a universal term in the ed-tech field, but it soon could be with the help of Mikaela Jade. Jade is an Indigenous Cabrogal woman from Australia who has deep connections with the land (Ball, 2022). Her initial career was as a park ranger in Australia where she soon realized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0263\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}