New app helps teach Indigenous languages – Petrolia Lambton Independent

March 9, 2026

The Lambton Kent District School Board is using technology to teach Indigenous languages in the classroom.

Trustees heard at its meeting on Feb. 24, that the school board launched an app for Anishnaabemowin and Lenape languages to assist in the learning of the language. The school board offers Anishnaabemowin as a second language and Lenape as a second language at both the elementary and secondary school levels across the district, and this new app will help in furthering that learning, said Lambton-Kent Superintendent Eryn Smit.

The app contains 30 units of study in each language, including vocabulary practice, listening and reading comprehension and writing tasks. The app is just available in the classroom at this point as it was just launched in January, but the school board hopes to have it eventually available to the First Nation communities as well as the wider community.

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