Introduction

=**Welcome to Chrissy, Justin, Sue and Jasons Wiki: **= **Literacy, ESL, Indigenous learners and LMS's. ** 
 * Cover definitions of what LMS's are and the pedagogy behind their use
 * Examine how indigenous learners use technology to benefit their learning, in order to improve literacy. (North American first nations, Australian aboriginals NZ Maori and Pacifica).
 * How these different cultures could utilise an LMS, in particular, MOODLE from our research, literature, videos and readings, and that MOODLE is becoming the LMS of choice to use internationally.
 * Explain how LMS’s work, and compare MOODLE to Blackboard.
 * Ultimately, you can decide whether your institution would use an LMS or not; or think that an LMS would be valuable for further learning potentials of the cultures we have investigated.

**We would like you to think about this first:**
No matter where we live on planet Earth we all need to use technology to communicate effectively in the 21st century. To understand that how we communicate and what we use as tools affects our education differently to that of our forbearers, we also need to learn how social media affects our lives and our learning possibilities of our students. We are living in an age of great potential, and we can all interact in the global economies growth. All age groups are using and living with technological growth and development. We all use email and search the web every day, and purchase online. Do our educational pedagogies reflect: Sharing, collaboration, teamwork, engagement and repurpose, which are the new buzz words of the multi-digital-educational era, and are we incorporating these educational techniques from other cultures that could enable everyone's success in e-education?

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 * How will you teach me in the 21st century. (2010).**

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