Digital Youth Work Understanding
Awarded for showcasing readiness to apply digital youth work principles and methods into your professional practice. This badge recognises your ability to understand digital youth work principles, adapt digital tools and strategies to align them with youth work goals, and demonstrate readiness to put them to action.
Skills and experiences gained
This badge aligns with the Digital Competence Framework for Youth Workers and supports the development of:
- Digital youth work methodologies – Exploring digital tools for youth engagement.
- Supporting digital participation – Facilitating youth engagement in digital spaces.
- Strategic planning – Integrating digital youth work strategies into youth work practices.
This badge demonstrates the earner’s readiness to apply digital youth work practices in their professional context. Cities of Learning Network partners value badge earners’ efforts and issue this badge after reviewing the provided evidence.
You have to finish 1 task to get the badge
Tasks
Task no.1
Evidence verified by: un organisadó di aktividat
Participate in digital youth work exchange activity to earn the Digital Youth Work Understanding badge.
Preparation:
- Familiarise yourself with the Developing Digital Youth Work resource that introduces key concepts of digital youth work.
- Identify how digital youth work connects with the broader goals of youth work, such as inclusion, participation, and learning.
Activity:
- Step 1. Participate in a group discussion about the role of digital technologies in youth work.
- Step 2. Explore how digital youth work supports participation, inclusion, and empowerment.
- Step 3. Discuss real-world examples of digital youth work and how they align with traditional youth work methods.
Get the badge:
- Task: Select one digital youth work example and reflect on how you can apply it to your youth work practice.
- Evidence: Submit a written reflection or a short recorded summary.
Task no.2
Evidence verified by: un organisadó di aktividat
Explore online digital youth work examples to earn the Digital Youth Work Understanding badge.
Preparation:
- Research online for digital youth work examples and choose to analyse the one which mostly aligns well with your youth work goals.
- Identify the objectives, methods, and impact of the chosen example
Activity:
- Analyse the case study and evaluate how digital themes, tools or activities were used to support youth engagement.
- Reflect on what aspects of the example could be adapted to your own youth work practice.
- Share your thoughts in an online discussion with peers.
Get the badge:
- Task: Submit a reflection on key insights from the case study and how you would implement similar digital youth work practices.
- Evidence: Provide a link or document summarising your findings.
Badgecraft ta fasilitá e plataforma akí i ta desaroy'é huntu ku organishonnan líder den edukashon. E programa Erasmus+ di Union Europeo a ko-finansiá kreashon di e promé vershon di e plataforma akí. Tuma kontakto ku support@badgecraft.eu.
Plataforma
Kambia pa otro idioma:
