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Teaching Kits

Six free teaching kits — one per language — for use in kura, schools, community centres, and study groups. Bilingual, grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, tikanga Māori, and the CARE / OCAP indigenous data principles. Pair with the six free modules on the homepage.

Languages: 6 (en · mi · sm · pt · gn · ar) Format: PDF Modules: 6 (paired with cultural motifs) Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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The Educator Guide explains how to adapt the materials for your community — Māori kura, Brazilian Indigenous schools, Pacific community centres, or anywhere people are grappling with how AI systems affect their data and culture.

Teaching kits by language

PDF — print or project. Same six modules, translated and culturally contextualised for each audience.

SM · Gagana Samoa

Aoaoga Tusi — Gagana Samoa

Sāmoan diaspora + Pacific partners

The six modules

Each module pairs a cultural motif with a CARE principle and a hands-on student task.

1 · What is Data?

Collective benefit

Students map what data their community already holds.

2 · Data Colonialism

Responsibility

Trace how data has been extracted from your community historically.

3 · CARE & Sovereignty

Authority

Write your own community data charter.

4 · Land & Territory

Ethics

Connect land mapping to data mapping.

5 · Collective Knowledge

Collective + Responsibility

Create a community knowledge archive project.

6 · Indigenous AI Futures

Ethics

Imagine and design AI tools for your community.

For educators and translators

These kits are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — free to use, translate, fork, and self-host. The source files (Markdown + LaTeX) are on GitHub. Submit translations or adaptations as pull requests, or open an issue for support.

Suggested classroom credit: Teaching kit: Te Pā Tūwatawata · te-pa.org · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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