Launched on November 25 in the Anicinabe community of Kitiganik or Lac-Rapide/Lac-Barrière, the WIKWEMOT educational basket as well as the WIKWEMOT AR video game aims to collect, preserve and transmit elements of ancestral Anicinabe culture.
Designed to teach Anicinabe culture in a trilingual way, in French, English and Anicinabemowin, this educational basket seeks to bring together the nation and its nine communities around issues of transmitting knowledge common to all.
“The team behind WIKWEMOT also seized the opportunity to combine the skills of different generations in this collective project to implement field knowledge technology,” we can learn in the press release issued during the launch.
WIKWEMOT is also an original application which brings together traditional knowledge about kacabagonegabwec, or moose. This is accessible on cell phones and tablets in order to reach young people and family circles. The application is suitable for a young audience, at primary level, with interactivity through mini-games, audiovisual content, and a linear progression of success and acquisition of knowledge.
The Wikwemot kit, an Anicinabe word meaning basket of bark, includes four educational capsules, five educational activity books, four video workshops and the WIKWEMOT AR video game, an augmented reality (AR) video game that allows you to learn how to his ancestors worked with moose legs.
