Kumu Connect: Culturally-Authentic AI Tools to Enable Educator Agency and Data Sovereignty for Hawaiian K-12 CS Education

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International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Published
21 Jun 2026
Authors
Rachel Baker-Ramos, Manas Mhasakar, Viswak Raja, Evyn-Bree Helekahi-Kaiwi, William Gelder, B. Carter, et al.

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The erasure of Indigenous cultures is a painfully enduring legacy of U.S. imperial history, producing disparities in culturally-relevant curricula, thus barring Indigenous students from resonant educational experiences. In Hawaiʻi, where Hawaiian instruction was banned for 91 years, culturally-relevant curricula gaps are most severe in Hawaiian-language education and technical fields like Computer Science (CS). Large Language Models (LLMs) are positioned to address these disparities, yet raise concerns of cultural misrepresentation and data sovereignty. We ask: how can LLMs serve educators of varying familiarity with Hawaiian culture while safeguarding Hawaiian knowledge? Addressing this…

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