CAP: Partnerships for Indigenous Knowledge and Digital Literacies

该项目为研究人员与美洲印第安土著社区语言工作者之间的合作奠定了学术基础，目的是开发一种社会技术手段，同时保护古老的土著语言和传统生态知识，并帮助土著青年学习传统语言和知识。预计的计划是让土著青年参与设计增强现实沉浸式体验，其中包括社交媒体，并使其他人沉浸在社区的文化和语言中，作为实现这些目标的一种手段。这种方法使青年人能够为他人创造身临其境的体验，并与他们可以分享和学习的老年人积极合作。在这一网络学习能力建设项目过程中，土著研究所正在召集一系列研讨会，有研究人员、土著语言工作者、土著老人和青年参加，为以后的合作研究和规划奠定基础。向土著与会者介绍了人们如何学习和设计促进学习的经验;向研究人员介绍了土著人民的资源、需要和知识。美国印第安人参与者来自中西部四个不同但语言相关的部落社区。下一代原住民面临着一个可怕的负担：如何在语言、文化和政策转变猖獗的情况下维持当地的生态系统、语言和土地。现有的语言和学习理论没有解决这些问题，项目参与者正在为围绕土著语言和文化学习发展理论以及探索技术在吸引青年参与这些活动并帮助他们学习和保护传统语言和文化方面可能发挥的作用奠定基础。寻找传播土著语言和传统生态知识的新渠道既是一项实际工作，也是一项智力工作。

This project lays the academic foundations for collaborations between researchers and indigenous American Indian community-based language practitioners for the purpose of developing a socio-technical means of, in parallel, preserving ancient indigenous languages and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), and helping indigenous youth learn traditional languages and knowledge. The projected plan is to engage indigenous youth in the design of augmented reality immersive experiences for others (ARGs) that incorporate social media and immerse others in the culture and languages of the community as a means towards addressing these goals. Such an approach places youth in the position of being producers of immersive experiences for others and active collaborators with elders who they can share with and learn from. During the course of this Cyberlearning Capacity-Building Project (CAP), the PIs are convening a set of workshops involving researchers, indigenous language practitioners, and indigenous elders and youth to lay the foundations for later collaborative research and planning. Indigenous participants are being introduced to what is known about how people learn and about designing experiences for promoting learning; researchers are being introduced to the resources, needs, and knowledge of the indigenous people. American Indian participants are from four separate but linguistically-related tribal communities in the Midwest. The next generation of indigenous peoples is faced with an awesome burden: how to sustain local ecosystems, languages, and lands in the face of rampant language, culture, and policy shifts. Existing theories of language and learning do not address these issues, and project participants are laying the groundwork for both developing theory around indigenous language and cultural learning and exploring the roles technology might play in drawing youth into these activities and helping them learn and preserve traditional languages and culture. Finding new channels for the transmission of indigenous languages and traditional ecological knowledge is both a practical and intellectual enterprise.