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Digitcitizen

2021-1-LV02-KA153-YOU-0000072762021Mobility of youth workersfinalizedGood practice
Countries: LV|TR|DE|BE|PL|IT · Grant: €16,325
Digital skills and competencesDigital youth workInformation and communication technologies (ICT)

Objectives

In 21st century the whole world becomes digitalised. Now, when COVID-19 has shaken every country, it becomes even more clear, that the way to keep staying socially, politically active is to transfer most of communication and information online and to become digital citizens. The area of digital citizenship is evolving concept within society and there is a growing recognition that schools are not preparing our youth with these core skills. The purpose of being digital literate is to engage in a digital society; one needs to be able to understand, inquire, create, communicate and think critically. It is important to effectively access, organize, analyse, evaluate, and create messages in a variety of forms. In democracy world digital citizenship is core skill especially in young age. The urgent challenge for youth workers today is to adapt to the new reality, learn or improve necessary digital citizenship competences themselves to be able to transform them to young people - as a tool for keeping going active throughout the time of lock-down, as a tool to influence society. Cooperating with youth organizations along Europe, we are in a constant flow of appearing issues actual for young people, as well as organizations' and youth workers' needs to be able to respond and moderate these issues. Right now the issue of finding balance in media, especially digital media is much prioritised. Respectively, the need of youth workers to find appealing communication channels, be digitally competent and find the right approach to speak with young people on these issues, to support and empower them, is extremely required. Also in ERASMUS+ program one of the priorities are digital, that show importance of this topic also in EU level. Also based on Youth goals – Information and constructive dialogue - ensure young people have better access to reliable information, support their ability to evaluate information critically and engage in participatory and constructive dialogue. The project aims to equip youth workers with digital citizenship skills as a tool to motivate and support young people in staying socially and politically active. Objectives of the project: -popularize the concept of digital citizenship; - rethink the role of youth worker in the digital era; -raise the digital literacy skills among the participants, and - further on - among the young people they work with; -learn to orientate better in media world - from classic media to electronic, social media; -improve the critical thinking ability as a part of digital citizenship; - develop ideas for non-formal education activities within digital citizenship to be organized for young people; - consider the emergency of so called “civic tech”, which uses technology to address various aspects of digital citizenship. As a result of this project we prepare more competent youth workers, brave and secure to work with digital citizenship topic, equipped with different NFE tools to deal with young people on this topic in their daily basis.

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