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Native Affairs- Inventing Kiwis
What do the eggbeater, the jet-pack, and bungee cord all have in common? They were invented in Aotearoa.
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Preserving stories through gaming
An Auckland Museum initiative aims to create job opportunities for youth through creative arts. The Urban Programme draws on music, fine arts and game development to inspire career pathways for students.
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Emotiki app causes cultural stir
A Māori internet and digital expert is criticising the world's first Māori emoji app Emotiki, calling it culturally insensitive and offensive to Māori. Karaitiana Taiuru says the satirical use of the tiki and using images of people without permission are unacceptable.
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Te reo Māori pronunciation made easier
Tourist operators hold the influence over their audience when it comes to pronunciation of Māori words around town, now a new app can help them to learn the correct pronunciation and in turn educate their listeners.
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Anti-bullying app launched in pre-school
An anti-bullying app for pre-school children has just been released and the first to try it out were children at an Auckland pre-school. The Moe book app aims to teach kids about bullying using an interactive story and game.
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Digital Whakapapa for Ngāi Te Rangi
The Tauranga iwi authority, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Te Rangi is digitising genealogy scrolls created by tribal elders more than 60 years ago.
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Researchers respond to 80% in favour of cannabis decriminalisation
The results of a poll released by the NZ Drug Foundation shows around 80% of adults favour the decriminalisation of cannabis for medicinal use. Some researchers support a reform of the cannabis legislation, while others would like to see clear guidelines in place as to which illnesses would qualify if the law was changed.
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Maniakalani programme brings Chromebooks to the classroom
Three classrooms at Auckland's Edmund Hillary School have embarked on a new learning journey thanks to the Manaiakalani programme. The decile one school is one of six other schools in the Papakura area to receive Chromebooks as part of a wider roll-out across the country and the Pacific Islands, where students have the opportunity to do almost all their class work digitally.
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Kahungungu youth want to take hold of their education
Some of the best business heads in Kahungunu have come together, to power up the Māori economy in Hawke's Bay. Growth, that the youth believe, will come through growing with the digital age.
