Love all the laughter in the room for day two #NATSIEC2018 keynote. Nobody makes maths as fun as Dr Chris Matthews from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Association. #IndigenousX in STEM 💪🏾
Dr Chris is teaching the teachers at #NATSIEC2018 in his keynote: culturally responsive pedagogical approaches to STEM that embrace Indigenous student identity.
Dr Chris introduced his Goompi model to #NATSIEC2018 delegates...and now we have math problems to solve. Wish math was this fun when I went to school!
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Let’s talk about those 49% of Australians who want to change the date ‘because it’s offensive to Indigenous Australians’.
Well, more specifically I guess we should talk about why the ABC chose to use that phrasing for the question in their 2018 survey. They didn’t have ‘because I have find it offensive’ or ‘because it’s a shit date to have a national day on’, but they really should have.
Saying you support changing it because it’s offensive to me says that you don’t find it offensive, but because I do and you’re benevolently willing to accomodate my sensitivities. You don’t have a problem with the date, because the date isn’t really the problem, I am the problem.
Hi all, @LukeLPearson from IndigenousX here, how are you all (don’t @ me if you're not mob)?
That’s good to hear :)
So anyway, I saw that awesome thread from @Flashblak about her removing all the shit resources from her son’s school’s library (read it if you haven’t - then come back here and read this one).
I’ve deaccessioned a few school libraries myself over the years (also unpaid), and as there isn't a database of shit resources as @flashblak suggested (great idea btw!)
I thought I'd share some tips for selecting and evaluating resources about Indigenous ppls and cultures.
Hi, @Moree_mick education officer, from IndigenousX here. I saw that old tweet of Luke’s doing the rounds again asking people not to use the Creative Spirits website:
The page Luke shared isn’t on the site anymore, but there is still plenty of dubious and dodgy content there, so I thought I’d do a Top 5 of #CreativeSpiritsWTF:
Q1: Is Clontarf an Indigenous Community Controlled Organisation?
A1: Nope, it is not Indigenous controlled, owned, or run. The Clontarf Foundation was founded in 2000 by Gerard Neesham, a non-Indigenous ex-AFL player and coach.
In publicly info, the ABN history tells us that it was “The Gerard Neesham Aboriginal Sporting Foundation Inc” from June 2000 - May 2004, then “The Western Australian Indigenous Sporting Foundation Incorporated" until it became “The Clontarf Foundation Inc” in June 2004.
Please support these crowdfunding campaigns for mob who have died in custody and their families! If you know of any others, please share them on this thread. gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of…