#AlwaysON For Youth Project
This MOOC course is developed as part of the #AlwaysON For Youth Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership between 5 youth organizations from throughout Europe: YMCA Romania, Young Initiative Association (Romania), YMCA Europe, Nadejda CRD (Bulgaria), CCIVS (France).
Find out more about the project at youthwork.digital
Who is this course for?
This course is for anyone who is working with young people and wants to learn more about digital inclusion, digital safety and digital youth work. And more specifically:
- Youth workers who are supporting young people in any formal, non-formal or informal contexts;
- Youth organisations managers, staff or volunteers who are engaged in youth work activities;
- Teachers;
- Educators;
- Students of youth work, social work or associated studies;
Why register for this course?
Gain a better understanding of post-pandemic trends in digital youth work
Obtain a hollistical view over key concepts such as digital inclusion, digital safety, digital outreach and digital youth work
Learn more about reaching young people in digital spaces (and doing so in an inclusive manner)
Discover practical tools, worksheets and exercises that will support your learning and your work
Get inspired by 15+ interviews with experts from the field from all around Europe
Explore a pack of 33+ lessons created by youth workers for youth workers
Curriculum
Welcome to the course
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Module 1: Introduction to Digital Inclusion and Youth Work in a Post-Pandemic Context
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- 1.1 Understanding Digital Youth Work
- 1.2 Digital Youth Work – New Post-Pandemic Scenarios
- 1.3 Glossary of concepts
- 1.4 New Trends in Digital Youth Work (1): The Need for Digital Inclusion
- 1.5 New Trends in Digital Youth Work (2): Digital Safety
- 1.6 Practical Assignment: Design Your Individual Learning
Module 2: Quality and Safety Standards for Digital Inclusion and Youth Work
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- 2.1 What are the quality and safety standards for digital inclusion in use today?
- 2.2 What does digital inclusion look like in practice? Interview: Onoriu Dan Raul, Youth Worker
- 2.3 Cyber Hygiene
- 2.3.1 Advancing Cyber Hygiene
- 2.4 Creating Standards for digital inclusion and equity
- 2.5 Safety in digital youth work - Interview with Claudia Stoica, Youth Worker
- 2.5.1 Safety in Digital Youth Work - Bea Konyves, International Youth Worker
- 2.6 Planning an organizational strategy for safety and digital inclusion customized for youth work
- 2.7 Quiz
Module 3: Digital Outreach for Youth in Vulnerable Situations
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- 3.1 Introduction to the module
- 3.2 Introduction to digital outreach
- 3.3 Understanding young people in vulnerable situations: connecting the dots
- 3.4 Reaching out to young people in vulnerable situations: the power of youth work (Interview with Prof. Howard Willliamson, University of South Wales)
- 3.5 The situation in the EU: learning about youth in vulnerable situations and digital behavior
- 3.6 Listening to your target group and identifying the best way to connect
- 3.7 From beneficiaries to agents of change (Guest speaker: Loredana Dicsi, European Disability Forum)
- 3.8 Worksheet - Designing a project plan for digital outreach
- 3.9 Quiz
- 3.10 How to apply what you learnt in this module
Module 4: Practical Approaches and Methods of Digital Youth Work
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- 4.1 Digital youth work approaches and methods (part 1) - Dr. Adela Fenichiu
- 4.2 Digital youth work approaches and methods (part 2) - Oana Constantinescu
- 4.3 Interview: Ana M. Marin - Inspiring Coach
- 4.4 Interview: Maria Melente - Creative Teacher
- 4.5 Interview: Veronica Stefan - The digitalisation expert
- 4.6 Practical examples of methods and tools in digital youth work
- 4.7 Common mistakes in Zoom meetings
- 4.8 Worksheet - How to structure a digital youth work activity
- 4.9 Tips&Tricks for organising digital events
- 4.10 Quiz
- Practical Tool: #KindOnline virtual tool for responding to cyberbullying with kindness
Module 5: Digital Safety, Wellbeing and Humane Technologies
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- 5.1 What is digital safety? What are the digital safety essentials for youth workers?
- 5.2 What is digital literacy and digital citizenship?
- 5.3 Communications, Social Media and Gaming
- 5.4 Cyberbullying
- 5.5 Your Digital Footprint
- 5.6 Digital Privacy, Security and Copyright
- 5.7 Checklist - Embedding Digital Safety in Youth Work
- 5.8 Digital Wellbeing and Humane Technologies
- 5.9 How to talk about digital wellbeing with young people
- 5.10 How to embed digital wellbeing in youth work?
- 5.11 Interview with Emanuil Georgiev, Bulgarian Safer Internet Center
Extra information / Follow-up / Erasmus+ Information
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Project Consortium
Project co-funded by the European Union
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