BRAUER College students have combined history and technology to learn more about sites of the Peek Whurrong people.
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Year 7 students visited culturally-significant locations around Warrnambool, Port Fairy and Yambuk with Peek Whurrong elder Rob Lowe senior.
Angelique Johnson, 12, said the hands-on learning and creation of a techno-trail had been fun.
“It’s been really interesting learning and exploring the Aboriginal culture, weapons and tools,” she said.
Students have put their knowledge from the excursions and Mr Lowe’s stories into an iPad game.
Using Google Maps, students had to overlay information for other classmates to read and play.
Brauer College teacher Will King has been teaching a game-based learning project for several years. He created the Local Koori Mobile History Project in collaboration with Deakin University this year.
“We were looking to build local indigenous culture into the program a bit more,” Mr King said.
Deakin University senior education lecturer Julianne Lynch said the project was a great opportunity to “digitalise” history.
“No one looks at a book any more, they all look at their phones,” she said.
Deakin University staff will document the impact the geo-location technology project has had on the students with a view to similar projects in future.
A series of grants from Telstra and the Telematics Trust — a Victorian Government-established body to develop new information and communications technologies — funded the project.