Digital Youth Work TC Playlist

Content

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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Digital Engager

Mandatory

30 minutes

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Digital NGO

Mandatory

Unknown duration

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Content

How digital is your youth work organisation?  

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Digital NGO Get this badge

How digital is your youth work organisation and what strategies might you need to develop a stronger digital ethos? If you are already using some tools, think about what opportunities might come from new ones that you hadn’t considered before. How can you be the digital champion in your organisation and who else do you need to bring with you on your journey?
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The owner of this badge has completed the 4 required tasks for Digital NGO, which includes: 
Considered and shared the digital tools their organisation uses
Shared their understanding of the digital footprint of their organisaton
Explored and shared what online project management tools used by their NGO
Considered and reflected upon their NGO’s approach to digital youth work and how strategically they are applying digital approaches
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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.  
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The evidence provided for each task shows how the holder worked on these topics.
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*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

In your youth work now, what digital tools and methods do you already use? List as many as you can. 

Task no.2

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

What’s the digital social media footprint of your organisation like? Who is making the posts and what are the posts about? 

Task no.3

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Do you use SLACK, Meistertask, WhatsApp, Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, Trello, Workplace, Jira, Monday.com? Which do you think is best for your organisation and why? 

Task no.4

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Is your organisation an early adopter, initial innovator, strategic user or reluctant engager? Do you have members of the team who are reluctant engagers? Do you have any strategies to support and work with them? 

Digital Opportunities and partnership

Mandatory

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Digital Reflections

Mandatory

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Activities: 5

Started: 23

Completed playlist: 3

Time to complete: 1 hour 30 minutes

Organisers

Europäische Jugendbildungsstätte Magdeburg (EJBM)

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