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Developing Digital Youth Work: needs, practices, policies
Developing Digital Youth Work: needs, practices, policies
Content
This activity supports youth workers and youth work managers in understanding and integrating digital youth work into their practices and organisational policies.
Through interactive tasks, you will explore ways to develop digital youth work strategies, ensuring that young people can engage in meaningful, innovative, and inclusive digital experiences.
By completing this activity, you will:
- Gain a clear understanding of what digital youth work is and how it relates to youth work goals.
- Learn practical ways to integrate digital tools and methods into youth work practice.
- Identify how your organisation can implement digital youth work strategies and policies.
Get inspired
Youth work has always adapted to the changing needs of young people. As digital technology increasingly shapes young people’s lives, youth work must evolve to integrate digital tools and approaches effectively.
- Read through the key recommendations and good practice examples.
- Reflect on how digital youth work aligns with the goals of youth work and how it can be applied in your context.
Watch the animated videos explaining what digital youth work is and how it aligns with youth work goals.
Take action: activities for different roles
Explore the following role-specific badges to access activities designed to enhance your digital youth work within the organisation: Navigate to a specific badge and complete activities as a youth worker, and youth work manager. Involve young people in co-designing digital youth work solutions:
- Youth workers can use the Digital Life Explorer badge to facilitate young people in reflecting on and exploring their digital lives.
- Digital Youth Work to Practice badge is designed for youth workers to deepen their understanding and application of digital youth work in their professional practice.
- Digital Youth Work Integrator badge has an activity for youth work managers to develop and implement effective digital youth work strategies within their organisation.
Claim open badge recognition
Upon successful completion of the activities, participants can claim digital badges recognising their competence in:
- Understanding digital youth work principles.
- Ethical and effective digital youth work practices.
- Strategic digital youth work development and integration.
Next steps
Explore more learning opportunities and resources on digital youth work through the Digital Youth Work platform. Apply what you’ve learned to implement digital youth work strategies effectively.
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This activity supports youth workers and youth work managers in understanding and integrating digital youth work into their practices and organisational policies. Through interactive tasks, you will explore ways to develop digital youth work strategies, ensuring that young people can engage in meaningful, innovative, and inclusive digital experiences.
Tasks
Task no.1
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Skills
#Excellent Level. Engages young people on equal footing in the planning, running and evaluation of digital activities; they are an integral part of the strategic approach to digital transformation.
#Excellent Level. Runs digital youth work activities that are based on the guidelines of organisation, the ideas of young people, and on the principles set by the national and European organisations.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people and other youth workers to set goals for meaningful digital youth work, assess them and reflect jointly on the outcomes.
#Elementary Level. Uses basic digital tools and devices to run some digital youth work activities with young people, based on own intuition
#Excellent Level. Supportes young people to improve their behaviours in looking for trustworthy sources or running their own online research.
#Good Level. Understands digital youth work in a broad context of social effects and economic interests of digital transformation; applies solid ethical principles to both digital and traditional youth work.
#Good Level. Plans and implements multiple digital youth work activities, using a diversity of digital tools
#Fair Level. Runs digital youth work activities that are based on the initiatives and ideas of young people and/or fellow youth work colleagues (not part of a strategic process).
#Fair Level. Is in a position to empower young people and other youth workers to experiment with digital means.
#Good Level. Engages young people to plan and organize activities, such as thematic discussions and vlogs on the digital platform.
#Good Level. Sets with young people learning objectives for digital youth work.
#Good Level. Learns to integrate practice-based learning (non-formal learning) and youth participatory approaches in digital youth work practiceer personality.
Organisers
Digital Youth Work Resource Hub
Awero not-for-profit organisation manages this platform and develops it together with leading educational organisations. The European Union's programme Erasmus+ granted co-funding for building the first version of this platform. Contact support@awero.org.
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