From sandstone to screen: a culturally responsive arts-based approach to digital literacy in a remote Indigenous community in Australia
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Meston, Troy
Wallis, Lynley
Kim, Eun-Ji Amy
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Indigenous students in remote areas face challenges accessing technology and digital literacy, hindering their educational and career opportunities. However, a Queensland Cape York Peninsula community addresses this challenge by leveraging cultural heritage and innovative citizen science to cultivate the next generation of digital leaders. The region is home to some of the world’s most impressive rock art galleries, documenting the traditions of Aboriginal peoples over generations. This case study sheds light on how remote schools can address students’ inequities in accessing digital technologies by offering insights into the potential for combining local culture and arts-based pedagogies to enhance engagement and learning in digital literacy. Alongside identifying obstacles such as limited online resources, technical difficulties, time constraints, and inadequate staff development, this case study provides a model for seeding Indigenous digital literacy in remote educational settings.
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© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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Screen and digital media
Education policy, sociology and philosophy
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Riley, T; Meston, T; Wallis, L; Kim, E-JA, From sandstone to screen: a culturally responsive arts-based approach to digital literacy in a remote Indigenous community in Australia, Learning, Media and Technology, 2025