Minecraft Build Challenges

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Aotearoa Digital Storytelling have designed a series of Minecraft Education Edition Build Challenges to complement the Mātauranga and Land of Voyagers online learning platforms.

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Offline Education

The November 2021 issue of INTERFACE magazine reports on how the students at Kingslea School, who can’t access the internet, can still use an offline version of mātauranga.co.nz

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Māori Hill School at Otago Museum

Noe travels to Ōtepoti to see what happened when the Head of Exhibitions from Otago Museum invited tamariki from Māori Hill School to build an exhibit around the journeys of our Aotearoa voyagers...

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Kaikorai Primary School Museum

In the first term of 2021, Kaikorai Primary School in Dunedin asked the kids "How can we as storytellers tell the amazing story of Pacific Migration?" Check out a selection of the Project Based Learning created by students from Year One to Year Six....

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Dunedin primary school makes their own Mātauranga Museum

Inspired by the maatauranga.co.nz website, students from Kaikorai Primary School displayed the results of their Project Based Learning in their own Museum...

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How great Polynesian voyagers can inspire Māori and Pasifika kids

Despite his Māori heritage, animation entrepreneur Sir Ian Taylor was 68 before the lightbulb moment when he heard of the Polynesian migration across the Pacific...

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Stories about Polynesian discovery of New Zealand to be told with modern technology

The legendary stories about the Polynesian discovery of New Zealand have been told in oral history for centuries...

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Beth Downie, Deputy Principal, Kaikorai Primary School

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Rosalind Manowitz, Mum

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Paul Hodgkinson, Head of Intermediate, Rosmini College

"I personally believe mātauranga.co.nz is the next big tool teachers can use to ignite learning and inspire children to go beyond the classroom and innovate in their world, because they know they are the descendants of greatness."

Zac Ford, Deputy Principal, Balaclava School

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Neil Robinson, Principal, Blockhouse Bay Primary School

"We used the Mātauranga website as a launchpad and our whole project was based on that fantastic resource... we have definitely learnt a lot about our own Aotearoa, New Zealand history, and as we go forward with the new curriculum, it’s been perfect timing for us to upskill on this fascinating topic."

Ewan Todd, Deputy Principal, Māori Hill School

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