Digital Youth Work TC Playlist

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This is your Digital Youth Works TC Learning Playlist. It is an opportunity to digitally record your thoughts, learning and progress through the training as well as achieve Digital Open Badges along the way. 
Digital Youth Works! - KA1 - Worker Mobility Training Course
Type of activity: Training Course
[8-13 April 2022] [in person]
Location: Magdeburg, Germany
The importance of youth work engaging with young people digitally has not only been identified as a priority through Erasmus+ but also been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic with many activities moving online. This training explores adapting traditional methods, utilising new opportunities for the new landscape of digital youth work. 
This training course aims to give youth workers space to experience and share digital tools and approaches as well as investigating new opportunities, all the while having an eye on the realities and challenges of using them with young people.
There will be a particular focus on providing practical tools which youth workers can go away from the training with to use in their own youth work contexts.
Special features of this course:
﻿An interactive and engaging programme, giving participants the chance to road test and experience tools themselves.﻿A space for meaningful knowledge exchange with participants encouraged to share their experiences and tools.
﻿Cities of Learning playlists and badges as pathways of  learning.
﻿A networking opportunity to meet and connect with others in the field who have an interest in working digitally with young people. 
Objectives:
﻿Developing a broader understanding of the opportunities and challenges presented by digital youth work tools and methodologies
﻿Explore and review digital youth work tools and methodologies
﻿Develop increased digital skills and recognise how to apply them in youth work
﻿The chance to test using traditional methods in digital spaces
﻿Opportunities to share your own expertise and learn from international peers
Expected Outcomes 
﻿Increased familiarity with different digital tools and what they can offer for work internationally and locally, even when working remotely
﻿Increased skills and knowledge on digital tools and how they can be matched with traditional methods
﻿Increased adaptability in times of crisis when face to face work isn’t possible and digital is the only alternative
﻿Sharing of digital youth work good practice and tools
The team of facilitators are Buzz Bury and Duncan Hodgson and they will guide you through the four days. 
The training has been created for participants who are…
Youth workers
Youth Leaders
Volunteers
Teachers 
Social Workers 
It will be essential participants are working with young people and ready to embrace the digital world and new youth work realities.
Training Language: English.
Participants should be above 18 years old.
Partner Countries: Portugal, Spain, Greece, Estonia, Germany
Venue: 
European Youth Educational Center Magdeburg (EJBM)
Luettgen-Ottersleben 18a, 39116 Magdeburg

Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

Digital me

Mandatory

1 hour

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We want to find out more about you and your digital footprint and presence. 

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Digital me Get this badge

We want to find out more about you, your digital footprint and presence, and how you present yourself to the world online. Do you share for everyone to see, or keep your profiles tightly controlled with strong privacy settings? When thinking about your work with young people, are you always on the look-out for new ways of working or do you usually stick to more traditional methods. This is a chance to review your own digital footprint and see how it relates to your youth work.
The owner of this badge has completed the required 4 tasks for Digital Me that include: 
How much time spent being digital
Considered safety, access and digital presence
Shared their first thoughts on digital youth work opportunities
Taken a selfie and used snapseed to edit
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The holder of this badge has worked independently to express their thoughts and first ideas about their own online use and the digital opportunities for youth work.  
The evidence provided for each task shows how the holder worked on these topics.
*Experienced trainers and facilitators have assessed the completed tasks and evidence.

You have to finish all tasks to get the badge

Tasks

Task no.1

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

How much time do you spend on the screen? On your phone? In front of the PC (gaming, studying or other)?  How many hours per day? How many hours per week? 

Task no.2

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

By taking part in the Digital Detectives pre-departure activity what was your biggest learning regards digital presence, safety and security? 

Task no.3

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

When considering Youth Work and working with young people what do you think are the opportunities digitally. 

Task no.4

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Take a selfie, then download if you don’t already have the app ‘snapseed’. Explore the edit options and share the final photo. Add Text, double exposure, add a frame, add an effect? What will you use? 

Digital Engager

Mandatory

30 minutes

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Digital NGO

Mandatory

Unknown duration

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Digital Opportunities and partnership

Mandatory

Unknown duration

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Digital Reflections

Mandatory

Unknown duration

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Activities: 5

Started: 22

Completed playlist: 3

Time to complete: 1 hour 30 minutes

Organisers

Europäische Jugendbildungsstätte Magdeburg (EJBM)

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