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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.
Activities to complete
Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated
Good practice: Bringing Stories to Life: Augmented Reality in Youth Work
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This activity challenges youth work leaders, youth workers, and young people to make a crucial transition: from simply reacting to online trends to proactively developing a powerful digital strategy. By building on the developmental needs of young people and learning from proven methods, you can create a lasting online impact. This is your chance to grow your digital presence from scattered content to a purposeful, strategic approach.
The Challenge
Young people's online world is complex and changes quickly. Many organisations are active online but lack a clear strategy that addresses the profound needs of young people. The challenge is to bridge the gap between traditional methods and young people's hybrid online world. This often leaves young people who are "invisible" offline—such as those who are lonely, find it difficult to connect, or are housebound—unreached. With this activity, you'll learn to shift to a thoughtful, strategic online voice aimed at reaching and supporting these young people in particular.
The Three Methodologies: Your Online Compass
Youth work is wherever young people are, and that's increasingly online. To build a meaningful and sustainable presence, you can use an approach based on three core methodologies. These methods will help you seamlessly integrate young people's online and offline worlds.
- Online as a point of contact: Become discoverable and accessible to young people online. This is your chance to reach new target groups you might not see offline. Engage with them directly on the channels they use, such as DMs or Snapchat, and make sure you respond quickly and with a low barrier to entry.
- Online observation: Learn to "read" young people’s online expressions and pick up on cues about their needs and problems, from loneliness to cyberbullying. By comparing this information with offline observations, you can play a key preventative role and build a bridge to other professionals, such as the local council or police.
- Online guidance: Offer repeated support through the online channels young people already use. The anonymity of online contact can lower the barrier for them to talk about sensitive topics. This guidance is most effective when you combine it with face-to-face contact to build a deeper relationship.
In Practice in Ede: The Story of Youth Worker Robin van Wonderen
Robin van Wonderen, a youth worker at Malkander in the municipality of Ede, shares how he integrates digital youth work into his daily routine. He developed a strategy based on his graduation research and uses platforms like Snapchat for one-on-one contact and TikTok and Instagram to promote physical activities. Robin emphasises the importance of a tailored approach by talking to young people about their interests. For example, he noticed a clear difference in interests between young people in the city of Ede and those in its surrounding villages. He encourages involving young people in content creation so they feel a sense of ownership while also using their digital skills. This makes the work not only more effective but also more sustainable for the team.
The Opportunity
Youth workers and leaders play a crucial role in putting these insights into practice. By strengthening your skills in strategy and methodology, you can:
- Observe young people: Identify young people's needs in the online world by carefully observing and responding to their online behaviour.
- Work as a point of contact: Use the online space as a place to reach young people who would otherwise remain unseen.
- Guide young people online: Coach young people on the challenges and opportunities of the online world, such as self-image, relationships, and safety.
- Connect strategically: Seamlessly integrate the online and offline worlds into your work to provide a consistent and safe environmen
Get Started: Activities for Different Roles
Explore the following role-specific badges to improve your digital youth work within the organisation. Each badge contains a series of clear, practical tasks tailored to your role, inspired by the six developmental needs and the three methodologies.
Youth work leaders can earn the Strategic Innovator badge to develop a sustainable approach to digital youth work within the organisation.
Youth workers can earn the Online Guide badge to gain practical experience in coaching young people on the challenges and opportunities of the online world.
Young people can earn the Digital Pioneer badge to build their own skills and self-confidence and create a positive impact within their online community.
Your Mission: Become a Digital Impact Maker
Get inspired by real-world practice! Watch the video where youth worker Robin van Wonderen of Malkander shares his experiences and valuable tips. He shows how a proactive attitude, team collaboration, and the right tools can create a successful digital approach. His story and insights directly align with the principles of this activity and give you a concrete example of how to start.
Who Created This Resource? This approach is based on the research 'Jongerenwerk in de online leefwereld van jongeren' (Youth Work in the Online World of Young People) from Lectoraat Youth Spot – Jongerenwerk (HvA) and was funded by the Innovation Alliance Foundation (RAAK-Publiek) and 14 collaborating organisations. The authors are Dr. Willeke Manders & Dejan Todorovic, MSc. Robin van Wonderen of Malkander youth work was interviewed about their digital youth work. This activity was created through Digital Systemic, a project subsidised by the European Union.
Next Steps: Apply this approach in your own youth work setting. Start by earning the badges in this activity.
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The Strategic Innovator Get this badge
You've developed a strategic plan for digital youth work and successfully implemented it, inspired by the practice of Robin van Wonderen from Malkander and the three methodologies: online as a point of contact, for observation, and for guidance. You've paved the way by defining the right resources, involving collaborative partners, and supporting your team in their professional development. You understand that a strong online presence begins with a clear vision and strategic leadership.
By earning this badge, the leader demonstrates not only the strategic vision but also the skills to implement, monitor, and integrate it within the organisation.
Delivered Competency Areas and Indicators. This badge aligns with the following competency areas and indicators from the Digital Capacity Framework for Youth Work Organisations:
- Leadership of the digital transition: You demonstrate that you can steer and manage the digitalisation of the organisation.
- Planning for digital youth work: You've developed a vision document and a collaboration strategy, ensuring a proactive and planned approach to digital youth work.
- Mainstreaming of digitalisation: You've created a Team Plan to enhance your team's digital skills, integrating digital methods into daily practice.
- Broad-minded and transformative work culture: You've created an open, collaborative, and flexible organisational culture that embraces digital change.
- Ability to network and collaborate: You've established a Collaboration Strategy with an external party, connecting the organisation to the broader digital ecosystem.
- Quality assessment: You've set up a system to measure the effectiveness of digital efforts.
- Assessing digital youth work for internal development and external accountability: You've implemented a Measurement Method, allowing you to gauge the impact of digital work and report on it.
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- Formulate a Vision Document: Develop a one-page document outlining your organisation's digital vision, focusing on the role of online as a point of contact, for observation, and for guidance. Consider how to apply this in your own context and what goals you want to achieve.
- Create a Team Plan: Conduct an internal analysis to map out your team's digital skills. Based on this, create a simple development plan to increase their expertise, for example, by offering training or encouraging peer supervision.
- Develop a Collaboration Strategy: Identify a relevant local organisation or expert in digital youth work and create a concrete plan for a potential collaboration, with clear goals for both parties aimed at reaching young people.
- Implement a Measurement Method: Define three measurable indicators to evaluate the success of your digital strategy. This could include both quantitative (e.g., reach, engagement) and qualitative (e.g., increase in one-on-one conversations, referrals) indicators.
Skills
#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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#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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#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).
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