Years 11-13
Strongest teaching range
Digital ethics
Primary curriculum fit
Teacher-only planning note
This handout works best when kaiako help students treat data as relationship-laden and political, not
neutral raw material. If the class is new to Māori Data Sovereignty, explicitly teach why
governance, consent, benefit-sharing, and community authority are distinct questions.
Strong fit
Systems shape how people and groups organise themselves: rights,
responsibilities, power, fairness.
How this handout aligns
The case study and policy-response scaffold ask students to analyse who holds power over data,
what responsibilities follow, and what fairness looks like when communities are affected by
digital systems.
Systems and power
Rights and fairness
Digital governance
Useful in social-studies-rich or cross-curricular inquiry where students
need to move from issue awareness into structured decision-making.
Strong fit
Discursive texts explore, discuss, or reflect on ideas and viewpoints,
often presenting multiple perspectives rather than arguing for a single, specific position.
How this handout aligns
The handout gives students a way to weigh tensions, identify different stakeholders, and justify
a recommendation. That supports discursive discussion and policy-response writing rather than
binary “technology good / bad” thinking.
English-rich discussion
Multiple perspectives
Policy response
Best used when kaiako want students to move from talk into structured
writing with evidence and reasoning.
Aotearoa lens
Digital ethics in Aotearoa should recognise tikanga, collective
wellbeing, and the authority of communities over their own knowledge and data.
How to teach this well
Do not present Māori Data Sovereignty as a niche add-on. It is a rigorous governance question
about who decides, who benefits, and what relationships must be protected when digital systems
use Māori data.
Mātauranga Māori
Governance integrity
Ethical technology
Strong for digital technologies, social inquiry, senior English seminar
work, and school-policy design contexts.
Puna Kōrero — Sources
Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand Curriculum. Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2021). Te Mātaiaho: The Refreshed New Zealand Curriculum. Ministry of Education.
Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. (2021). Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners. Teaching Council.