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Digital Rights
Digital Rights
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Young people are online every day, meaning they actively exercise their digital rights while also being vulnerable to their violation. In this playlist, you will learn how to support and protect young people in the digital world.
Digital youth work plays a crucial role in promoting respect for these rights and raising awareness of the associated risks. We will look at the ethical frameworks and practical steps you can take to create a safe digital environment for and with young people. This forms the basis for trust in online relationships.
Key Focus Areas in this Playlist:
- Viewing digital rights as an opportunity within youth work (C3.1).
- Awareness-raising on young people’s digital rights and their risks (C3.2).
- Supporting digital safety and resilience (C3.3).
About the Digital Competence Check
This playlist is directly linked to Competence Area 3 of the Digital Competence Check Digital rights, which is based on the European DYW SNAC Model. The Check covers 5 areas, 14 specific competences, and 38 indicators, helping you to map your starting proficiency level. By following this playlist, you will specifically target and improve the skills identified as areas for development.
This playlist features activities from the platform, all directly connected to this competence area. It is up to you to decide which activities are the most interesting and relevant for your professional development.
Within each activity, you will find four different badges. One badge is specifically intended for the Youth Worker. There are also badges for the Youth Worker's Manager and for Young People, should you wish to involve them in your development. This joint growth path is essential and is rooted in the Digital Systemic Team approach. Evidence shows that digital youth work is best realised when these four roles (Youth Worker, Manager, Young Person) collaborate.
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This example of a good practice invites youth workers to explore how interactive challenges, inspired by digital child rights, can empower young people to become active and responsible digital citizens.
Through engaging, participatory activities, participants will learn how to facilitate discussions around digital well-being, online safety, and community connection, fostering critical thinking and problem-solving skills in response to real-world digital challenges.
By completing this activity, you will:
- Understand how digital rights frameworks can empower youth in digital spaces.
- Learn how to design and facilitate "Are You Connected?" connection challenges.
- Identify how youth work can address digital well-being and citizenship through youth-led initiatives.
Get Inspired
The "Are You Connected?" initiative, developed by the Digital Child Rights Foundation, focuses on connecting young people with themselves, others, and their environment in the digital age. This approach uses interactive challenges and "connection desks" to promote digital well-being and active participation, recognizing that young people's lives are seamlessly integrated with digital environments.
Explore this example
In Rotterdam, the Digital Child Rights Foundation, led by Peter Joziasse, is implementing "connection desks" and "connection challenges" in youth hubs and libraries.
This initiative is designed to address the gap between young people's digital experiences and the support they receive from adults and institutions. The project emerged from the recognition that young people often feel unheard and unsupported in their digital lives, despite facing significant challenges like cyberbullying, misinformation, and mental health issues.
The core idea is to create a safe and inspiring space where young people can explore their digital identities and develop skills to navigate the online world responsibly. Participants, aged 15-29, engage in challenges based on 10 themes derived from the UN's General Comment 25, focusing on fairness, freedom, privacy, and inclusion. They use "change cards" and interactive games to stimulate discussions and actions that benefit themselves, their peers, and their communities. This youth-led approach empowers young people to become "connection coaches," providing peer-to-peer support and coordinating activities within their neighborhoods.
How can you use "Are You Connected?" Challenges in Youth Work?
- Use the 10 themes from General Comment 25 as a framework for discussing digital rights and responsibilities.
- Implement "connection challenges" to encourage young people to reflect on their digital lives and take positive actions.
- Establish "connection desks" in your youth center or library as safe spaces for digital well-being support.
- Train young people to become "connection coaches" to provide peer-to-peer mentoring and guidance.
- Facilitate discussions about online safety, mental health, and digital citizenship using interactive activities and games.
- Encourage young people to create digital projects that address community needs and promote positive online interactions.
- Collaborate with local organizations and municipalities to build a supportive digital ecosystem for young people.
- Recognize participation with Open Badges or community events to celebrate their contributions.
With "Are You Connected?" challenges, you can help young people develop essential digital citizenship skills and build stronger connections within their communities.
Claim Open Badge for Recognition
Upon successful completion of the activity, you can claim the digital badge recognizing your increased knowledge on how to:
- Use digital rights frameworks to empower young people.
- Facilitate discussions on digital well-being and online safety.
- Implement youth-led initiatives to promote digital citizenship.
Who created this resource?
This youth-led approach to digital citizenship was developed by the Digital Child Rights Foundation in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The activity and badge were adapted by the Cities of Learning Network to inspire wider use in digital youth work.
Who is behind this activity and badge?
Cities of Learning Network members developed this activity and badge to support digital youth work and youth empowerment:
Next steps
Try this approach in your own youth work setting. Start by facilitating discussions on digital rights and well-being. Use the "connection challenges" and "connection desk" concepts to create engaging activities. Then, explore more resources on digital youth work and youth empowerment at https://www.digitalyouthwork.net/.
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Are You Connected? Planning Badge Consigue esta insignia
This badge recognizes youth workers and educators who explore and reflect on the use of 'Are You Connected?' challenges as a tool for fostering digital citizenship and well-being in youth work settings. The badge demonstrates your understanding of how youth-led initiatives and digital rights frameworks can support young people's active participation and community connection in the digital age.
By earning this badge, you show that you are committed to empowering young people to navigate their digital lives responsibly and to creating safe, inclusive online spaces for meaningful dialogue and skill development.
Cities of Learning Network partners value badge earners’ efforts and contributions and issue this badge after reviewing the provided evidence.
Tareas
Tarea no.1
Evidencia verificada por: Un organizador de actividades
Reflect on your current or future youth work practices and share a short text (or audio) addressing this question:
- Where and how could you implement 'Are You Connected?' challenges to engage young people in exploring digital citizenship and well-being?
Think about the specific themes (e.g., online safety, digital rights, community connection), the format (e.g., group discussions, peer-to-peer mentoring, digital storytelling), and the role you would take as a facilitator in creating a safe and empowering space.
Good practice: Bringing Stories to Life: Augmented Reality in Youth Work
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#Good Level. Helps young people to understand the difference between facts, mis/dis-information, and, in general, to critically analyse information.
#Excellent Level. Supportes young people to improve their behaviours in looking for trustworthy sources or running their own online research.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to develop counter-narratives to a case of fake news or disinformation.
#Excellent Level. Helps young people to critically analyse current communication challenges related to the information crisis and the use of synthetic media.
#Fair Level. Sensitise young people on situations when they are not fairly treated in the digitalised world.
#Good Level. Set with young people learning objectives on how to support their digital rights.
#Fair Level. Discusses with young people about the type of digital content they want to produce
#Good Level. Learns to integrate practice-based learning (non-formal learning) and youth participatory approaches in digital youth work practiceer personality.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#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.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#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.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#Fair Level. Askes young people to critically assess the practices of the youth work offering.
#Good Level. Sets with young people learning objectives for digital youth work.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#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.
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#Fair Level. Knows how to support young people to collectively, as a group, gather and reflect on online information (non-formal learning is social knowledge production).
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#develop a recycling program
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#checking recycling procedures
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#advising about pollution prevention
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#Consciously provides space for dialogue and interaction taking into account learners’ values and beliefs and offers space to reflect on them in the educational context
#Excellent Level. Creates different types of digital content and knows how to support others in similar processes (eg. podcasts; videos)
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#Good Level. Knows how to organise educational and participatory activities connected to youth’s digital rights, and has been organised several with organisation.
#Good Level. Sets with young people learning objectives for digital youth work.
#Elementary Level. Uses basic digital tools and devices to run some digital youth work activities with young people, based on own intuition
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#Excellent Level. Constantly assess, together with young people and/or other youth workers on the quality of the digital work and reflects what has been learned; as an intentional process part of the digital youth work strategy.
#Good Level. Plans and implements multiple digital youth work activities, using a diversity of digital tools
#Excellent Level. Shares practices, as a member of a network, which meets regularly and aims at developing digital youth work.
#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.
#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.
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#Excellent Level. Creates different types of digital content and knows how to support others in similar processes (eg. podcasts; videos)
#Good Level. Sets with young people learning objectives for digital youth work.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#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.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#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. Supports young people and other youth workers to set goals for meaningful digital youth work, assess them and reflect jointly on the outcomes.
#Excellent Level. Shares practices, as a member of a network, which meets regularly and aims at developing digital youth work.
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#Excellent Level. Creates different types of digital content and knows how to support others in similar processes (eg. podcasts; videos)
#Excellent Level. Understands the benefits and risks of gaming and XR, knows how to deal with them and how to guide young people to ethical platforms; when needed, refers young people to specialised support in case of excessive/inappropriate use.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#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.
#Good Level. Gathers a group of young people to engage in technological activities and agreed about their learning outcomes
#Good Level. Sets together with young people educational aims for their own digital content production
#Good Level. Sets with young people learning objectives for digital youth work.
#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. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#Excellent Level. Shares practices, as a member of a network, which meets regularly and aims at developing digital youth work.
#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.
#Excellent Level. Understands the benefits and risks of gaming and XR, knows how to deal with them and how to guide young people to ethical platforms; when needed, refers young people to specialised support in case of excessive/inappropriate use.
#Excellent Level. Creates different types of digital content and knows how to support others in similar processes (eg. podcasts; videos)
#Good Level. Gathers a group of young people to engage in technological activities and agreed about their learning outcomes
#Excellent Level. Understands the benefits and risks of gaming and XR, knows how to deal with them and how to guide young people to ethical platforms; when needed, refers young people to specialised support in case of excessive/inappropriate use.
#Excellent Level. Creates different types of digital content and knows how to support others in similar processes (eg. podcasts; videos)
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#Fair Level. Supports young people to learn social skills through participation in digital communities, such as discussion groups, life-style sites, vlogs or gaming.
#Good Level. Plans and implements multiple digital youth work activities, using a diversity of digital tools
#Good Level. Sets with young people learning objectives for digital youth work.
#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. 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. Supports young people and other youth workers to set goals for meaningful digital youth work, assess them and reflect jointly on the outcomes.
#Excellent Level. Develops an ability to kick-off an innovative spirit in digital youth work activities; intentionally updates competences in the field, and is aware of trends but also policies in the field.
#Excellent Level. Shares practices, as a member of a network, which meets regularly and aims at developing digital youth work.
#Excellent Level. Guides a youth group to develop their own initiative on digital rights - using a project, an online study, or managing an exchange program.
#Excellent Level. Knows the key elements of main European digital regulations in the digital field and knows how to ethically apply them in youth work contexts.
#Excellent Level. Confident in using a diversity of digital tools and platforms to support youth work and deliver youth work services. (e.g. advanced technological equipment, digital cameras or software, AI tools)
#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. Implements a process, designed with organisation, through which assess together with young people the individual and organisational priorities/needs connected to digital transformation.
#Excellent Level. Confident in using a diversity of digital tools and platforms to support youth work and deliver youth work services. (e.g. advanced technological equipment, digital cameras or software, AI tools)
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#Good Level. Ensures that young people with fewer opportunities have participated in digital learning activities, such as thematic events, problem-solving, producing their own content, or vlogs.
#Excellent Level. Shares practices, as a member of a network, which meets regularly and aims at developing digital youth work.
#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.
#Fair Level. Supports young people to learn social skills through participation in digital communities, such as discussion groups, life-style sites, vlogs or gaming.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#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.
#Excellent Level. Shares practices, as a member of a network, which meets regularly and aims at developing digital youth work.
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#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. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#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.
#Excellent Level. Creates different types of digital content and knows how to support others in similar processes (eg. podcasts; videos)
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#Fair Level. Supports young people to learn social skills through participation in digital communities, such as discussion groups, life-style sites, vlogs or gaming.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#Excellent Level. Supportes young people to improve their behaviours in looking for trustworthy sources or running their own online research.
#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. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people who independently carries out their content production
#Fair Level. Participates regularly in local, national and/or international e-meetings and e-seminars.
#Awareness-raising on young people’s digital rights and their risks
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#data privacy
#Good Level. Creates a safe context for digital use and suggested young people to protect themselves from potential cybersecurity threats.
#Fair Level. Knows how to support young people to collectively, as a group, gather and reflect on online information (non-formal learning is social knowledge production).
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#Good Level. Learns to integrate practice-based learning (non-formal learning) and youth participatory approaches in digital youth work practiceer personality.
#Fair Level. Discusses with young people about the type of digital content they want to produce
#Fair Level. Advises young people on their basic functional skills, such as critically navigating through a variety of websites and platforms.
#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.
#Good Level. Runs digital youth work activities based on the guidelines of organisation.
#Excellent Level. Develops an ability to kick-off an innovative spirit in digital youth work activities; intentionally updates competences in the field, and is aware of trends but also policies in the field.
#Good Level. Learns to integrate practice-based learning (non-formal learning) and youth participatory approaches in digital youth work practiceer personality.
#Fair Level. Knows how to easily find online information about young people, and uses in planning digital youth work.
#Good Level. Ensures that young people with fewer opportunities have participated in digital learning activities, such as thematic events, problem-solving, producing their own content, or vlogs.
#Fair Level. Supports young people to learn social skills through participation in digital communities, such as discussion groups, life-style sites, vlogs or gaming.
#Excellent Level. Confident in using a diversity of digital tools and platforms to support youth work and deliver youth work services. (e.g. advanced technological equipment, digital cameras or software, AI tools)
#Fair Level. Discusses with young people about the type of digital content they want to produce
#Fair Level. Exchanges views with young people about their online safety and security.
#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.
#Elementary Level. Understands that youth workers and young people should learn together.
#Fair Level. Knows how to support young people to collectively, as a group, gather and reflect on online information (non-formal learning is social knowledge production).
#Good Level. Empowers young people to co-create digital content together with other youth workers/professionals
#Excellent Level. Understands the benefits and risks of gaming and XR, knows how to deal with them and how to guide young people to ethical platforms; when needed, refers young people to specialised support in case of excessive/inappropriate use.
#Good Level. Creates a safe context for digital use and suggested young people to protect themselves from potential cybersecurity threats.
#Excellent Level. Creates different types of digital content and knows how to support others in similar processes (eg. podcasts; videos)
#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.
#Good Level. Knows how to organise educational and participatory activities connected to youth’s digital rights, and has been organised several with organisation.
#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.
#Fair Level. Supports young people to learn social skills through participation in digital communities, such as discussion groups, life-style sites, vlogs or gaming.
#Fair Level. Askes young people to critically assess the practices of the youth work offering.
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#Good Level. Sets together with young people educational aims for their own digital content production
#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.
#Good Level. Ensures that young people with fewer opportunities have participated in digital learning activities, such as thematic events, problem-solving, producing their own content, or vlogs.
#Good Level. Gathers a group of young people to engage in technological activities and agreed about their learning outcomes
#Good Level. Learns to integrate practice-based learning (non-formal learning) and youth participatory approaches in digital youth work practiceer personality.
#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.
#Good Level. Plans and implements multiple digital youth work activities, using a diversity of digital tools
#Fair Level. Knows how to support young people to collectively, as a group, gather and reflect on online information (non-formal learning is social knowledge production).
Actividades: 20
Iniciado: 51
Lista de reproducción completada: 50
Tiempo para completar: 2 días 6 horas 15 minutos
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