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Digital Youth Work

Discover how to use digital media and technology as an integrated element of your youth work, supporting young people to navigate their online lives.

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Right now, digital is an incredibly important enabler for young people. That’s why we have such a strong focus on using digital well in a youth work setting, helping you incorporate digital into both face-to-face and online activities.  We will work with you to develop digital youth work. That means:

 

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Impact for Young People
Digital Youth Work is growing across Scotland and our data shows that it is a valuable way to achieve youth work outcomes, help young people develop digital skills and successfully navigate their online lives.
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Game Design for Youth Work
Follow the journey of two youth groups who participated in an exciting game design project, funded by the Include+ Network, Get ideas and resources for how to incorporate digital game design activities into your youth work and help tackle digital inclusion.
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Quit Fighting for Likes
Quit Fighting For Likes aims to get young people to think about and discuss attitudes and behaviours around the filming and sharing of violent incidents on social media. e The campaign and resources features a short awareness-raising animation, illustrating the digital world where this content can take place and showing an alternative route to switch off from it.

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Youth Work and Cyber Resilience - What Young People Said
Our report highlights the importance of discussion with young people as a way of building cyber resilience. Young people in youth work focus groups shared their thoughts about online safety and cyber resilience and the issues that they deal with every day in the online world.
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Resources and e-Learning
The Digitalyouthwork.scot website is a great place to start if you are looking for ideas or information. You'll find some of the most relevant resources here, plus learning that is designed specifically for youth workers.
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Digital youth work research
We are gathering data to help us understand how to support digital youth work in Scotland as it becomes a core element in youth work practice.
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Digital Youth Work Guidelines
Digital youth work focuses on the digitalisation and digital transformation of the youth work sector and youth work practice. It means using digital media and technology in youth work practice as a tool, an activity, and as content.

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Building Cyber Resilience
We have activities, resources and a benchmark that can form the foundation for developing your own resources when it comes to supporting young people to stay safe and secure online.

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Digital Youth Network
The Digital Youth Network meets several times a year, sharing practice and developing community around this fast-paced topic. Find out more and join this open network if you deliver digital youth work in Scotland.
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Training and Digital Youth Work Resources
We deliver regular training and events to meet the needs of the youth work sector. Find out about upcoming opportunities and get in touch to discuss needs for in house training. Training includes short in person workshops and a variety of e-learning opportunities.

Digital Makerspaces
Help young people develop tech skills that will enable them contribute in an increasingly digitalised society. Discover how digital makerspaces create positive environments where young people can play, create, have fun and learn together.
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Nae Danger
Available for free download, our online multiplayer and virtual reality Nae Danger games offer an interactive way for young people to explore active bystander interventions in real-life scenarios. Developed by No Knives Better Lives.

DigitalYouthWork.scot

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CyberScotland Partnership

The CyberScotland Partnership (CSP) is a collaboration of key stakeholders, brought together by the Scottish Government’s National Cyber Resilience Unit, to raise cyber security awareness and build cyber resilience across Scotland and drive the delivery of activities that will achieve the outcomes of The Strategic Framework for a Cyber Resilient Scotland.

The CSP supports the vision that Scotland thrives by being a digitally secure and resilient nation.

It aims to raise cyber resilience awareness amongst the general public, public, private and third sectors.

It also shares information and tips on how people, businesses and organisations can stay secure online and understand what to do and how to report any incidents.

The 25 CyberScotland Partners are:

 

Age Scotland, Business Gateway, Centre for Engineering Education Development (CeeD), College Development Network (CDN), Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland (CFCS), The Cyber and Fraud Hub, Education Scotland (EdScot), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), The IASME Consortium (IASME), Institute of Directors Scotland, LEAD Scotland, Local Government Digital Office, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Police Scotland, ScotlandIS, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3), Scottish Enterprise (SE), The Scottish Government, Scottish Sports Association, Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), Skills Development Scotland (SDS), UK Cyber Security Council, YoungScot, YouthLink Scotland

 

For more information go to: https://www.cyberscotland.com/about/

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