Mike Parkhill remembers receiving a call from a community leader in a northern Ontario First Nation about three years ago asking if he had a tool that might help students learn Ojibwe.
Parkhill, who runs a company that creates programs to help revitalize Indigenous languages, didn't have such a tool at the time but the idea to create one took root.
The web and app-based tool – called Anishinaabemowin – was conceived by Parkhill and his company, SayItFirst, which received funding to develop it from the Indigenous-operated post-secondary Seven Generation Educational Institute and the Rainy River District School Board. The board has been using the program and providing feedback.
"It's a great opportunity for everybody, not just Indigenous students, but non-Indigenous students too," she said. “It is just really, really cool app,” she said over the phone, her mother by her side. “There are so many interesting words that you can learn ... I have really been wanting to learn it.”
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