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Päkuÿi ÿÖnaehana "Connecting Technology"

Päku’i (Hawaiian for “to connect or integrate”) ‘Onaehana (“technology”), is our project involving teachers and the community in the creation of quality Hawaiian language materials and curriculum that support meaningful student learning and high-level Hawaiian language proficiency. Our youth are using technology for cultural and historic preservation.
The content of student projects is generated from mo’okü’auhau (“genealogies”) of their ‘ohana (“family”) and mo’olelo (“stories’) of their ‘äina (“place”). Students have opportunities to use traditional and contemporary research methods to interview küpuna (“grandparents”). Through the use of technology tools, students make meaningful connections between their world in the present to their culture and history of the past in order to guide them into the future. As our students look inward for answers, they become constructors of their own knowledge. We envision this development of a curriculum and training process as a model for other native cultures.

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ÿOiai e nanä mai ana nö nä maka.

"While the eyes still look around."

While a person is living, treat him kindly and learn what you can from him.

(Source: Pukui, Mary Kawena. 'Ölelo No'eau: Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings.Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1983.)

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E-mail Hiÿilani Goss, the Project Coordinator of the Pakuÿi 'Önaehana grant:

jo-an_goss@notes.k12.hi.us