Unearthing What Swims —or Slithers— Beneath – How DNA technology is helping ocean scientists reach new depths
Many of us know what it feels like to peer into a body of water—a mud-bottom pond, one of the...
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As an Indigenous educator—a technology teacher in Ontario—I have watched how literacy affects which concepts students are able to comprehend and discuss. Words hold power.
They can excite and educate, but they can also demote, demoralize, and defame. The very word science can be used to validate knowledge, while withholding it can prescribe information and ideas as “mere” folk knowledge—or, worse, defame them as myths and legends. Indigenous STEM knowledge is often a target of this exclusion and devaluation, and the reason has more to do with language than you might think.
