ROEBOURNE'S NEO LEARNING LAUNCHES ACROSS THE NATION

The Neo Learning program for school students launches today around the nation. The program has been co-created by Aboriginal children living in Roebourne alongside Big Hart. 

Roebourne children in the Digital Lab

Units of study cover Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, digital literacies, visual arts, literacy, geography, music, language and numeracy.

Big Hart producer Amy Kepa says they have two online learning programs currently and will develop more digital subjects in the coming months. 

“One of the learning resources is a digital drawing workshop and it’s about creating your own character that is inspired by NEOMAD , (an interactive comic book created by Roebourne’s Love Punks and Sattelite Sisters).

At the Digital Lab in Roebourne, Yindjibarndi youth, Sean Sambo is developing new digital skills.  He has been drawing digital characters using photoshop and creating beats using garage band software.

“I put on some soft and hard pen and I draw my own characters from my imagination. I named this one person from Montreal, Kakashi, and his superpower is being a ninja.”

NEO-Learning has been developed through the Telstra Foundation’s Tech4Good program with over 1,000 children taking part in the early piloting of the initiative. Units of study cover Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, digital literacies, visual arts, literacy, geography, music, language and numeracy.

NEO-Learning is a membership platform for teachers underpinned by a social impact model which champions the bright young future of Roebourne.

Young people from Roebourne have toured to LA, Korea and Poland. The comic and iPad App won many awards, including the Gold Ledger, Australia’s most prestigious comic book award.