Foundations of Competence-Based Digital Youth Work
Awarded to youth workers who have explored the meaning of competence, reflected on their digital learning experiences, and engaged with the competence-based approach as a tool for professional growth in digital youth work.
To earn this badge, youth workers needed:
- Submit a personal definition of competence with an example from digital youth work
- Identify at least three real-life digital learning experiences and link them to competences
- Reflect on how a competence-based approach can support your digital youth work practice
Skills and experiences gained
This badge aligns with the Digital Competences in Youth Work (DYW SNAC) framework:
- Shared guidelines and peer learning – including self-reflection, engaging in shared understanding, and peer-supported learning
- Self-reflection and lifelong learning – developing awareness of one’s own learning process and planning professional growth
- Learning and creativity with digital tools – using digital tools to support reflection and creativity in learning
- Expressing competence and facilitating recognition – beginning to articulate competences using appropriate language and tools
This badge shows the earner’s understanding of competence and their ability to reflect on digital learning experiences using a structured, competence-based approach. Cities of Learning Network partners value badge earners’ reflections and issue this badge after reviewing the submitted evidence.
Tasks
Task no.1
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
Complete at least two of the following tasks by providing evidence to earn the "Foundations of Competence-Based Digital Youth Work" badge:
- Task 1: Submit a personal definition of competence with an example from digital youth work
- Evidence 1: Upload a written or recorded personal definition of competence with a digital youth work example
- Task 2: Identify at least three real-life digital learning experiences and link them to competences
- Evidence 2: A completed analogue or digital competence map with at least three examples
- Task 3: Reflect on how a competence-based approach can support your digital youth work practice
- Evidence 3: A reflection on benefits and challenges of the competence-based approach in digital youth work (text, audio, or video)
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