How to use this companion
This page makes the curriculum story explicit for kaiako. The lesson itself is ready to teach, but this companion helps you place it inside your local programme, identify which learning area emphases you are using, and explain why the lesson belongs in a New Zealand classroom rather than as a generic AI debate.
Use it when planning, moderating, or documenting how the lesson supports digital technologies, ethical reasoning, discussion, and culturally grounded decision-making in Aotearoa.
Core match
Use this lesson when students need to evaluate the social, cultural, and ethical impact of digital systems rather than just describe how they work.
How this lesson aligns
The lesson asks ākonga to analyse an AI data case, weigh ethical risk, and design a policy response. That makes it a strong fit for senior digital technologies programmes that focus on evaluating digital impacts, responsible design, and the consequences of technological decisions.
📚 Technology / Hangarau
💻 Digital technologies
🎯 Ethical systems thinking
Planning use: senior digital technologies, digital ethics, or technology-rich inquiry contexts.
Strong match
Use this lesson when students are building structured discussion, argument, and proposal writing around a contemporary issue.
How this lesson aligns
The core task requires students to discuss, justify, and write a policy proposal. That gives it a clear English-rich dimension, especially for speaking, listening, persuasive writing, and critical reading of public issues.
📚 English
🗣️ Oral language
✍️ Argument and proposal writing
Planning use: literacy-rich digital technologies, English extension, or cross-curricular writing tasks.
Strong match
Use this lesson when students are examining citizenship, power, rights, and decision-making in Aotearoa.
How this lesson aligns
Māori Data Sovereignty is not only a technology issue. It is also a question of authority, participation, and whose values shape systems that affect communities. That gives the lesson a clear social sciences lens alongside its technology focus.
📚 Social Sciences
⚖️ Rights and responsibilities
🤝 Participation and governance
Planning use: social decision-making, citizenship, or contemporary issues programmes.
Supporting match
Use this lesson when you want culturally grounded technology learning rather than a context-free ethics discussion.
How this lesson aligns
The lesson explicitly centres Raraunga Māori, tino rangatiratanga, and relational responsibility. That makes it a useful way to embed Te Tiriti-aware and mātauranga-informed perspectives into technology teaching without treating Māori knowledge as an add-on.
🌿 Mātauranga Māori lens
📍 Aotearoa context
🧭 Te Tiriti-aware teaching
Planning use: local curriculum design, culturally sustaining pedagogy, and kaupapa-driven senior inquiry.