Month: October 2020

D(at)YW: Open Badge on 3D Design & 3D Printing

Our D(at)YW: 3D Design & Printing Course has not only offered valuably knowledge, but also recognised participants’ efforts and achievements. After finishing the course online and/or face-to-face, the young people were awarded a carefully designed Open Badge, which does go hand-in-hand with an official certificate.  😉 Isn’t it pretty? Would you like to earn it too?…

D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Literacy

📑 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation reports that the number of countries with political disinformation campaigns more than doubled to 70 in the last two years, with evidence of at least one political party or government entity in each of those countries engaging in social media manipulation. 💬 “Social media technology tends to empower…

D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Health

📑 The research published in 2017 in the American Journal of Epidemiology, conducted among 5,000 adults, shows that exposure to the carefully curated images from others’ lives leads to negative self-comparison, and the sheer quantity of social media interaction may detract from more meaningful real-life experiences.  ⚠️ The researches, Holly B. Shakya and Nicholas A. Christakis, actually…

D(at)YW Campaign: Digital Natives

Are you born into the digital age and can’t remember the time without a wireless internet in you life? 🤔 Then you must a be a Digital Native! But worry not, it’s not a contagious 😁. According to Marc Prensky (Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Digital Natives have quite unique abilities:ℹ️ they are used to receiving information really fast; 📝 they like…

D(at)YW: October Meet-up of Local Partners in Erfurt, Germany

After the second try-out with the C1 Activity, the German partners has organised another local meet-up to discuss further development of the project. After success of C1 and the valuable feedback from the partners regarding the e-Learning Platform, it was high time to have a meeting between Plattform e.V. and CGE Erfurt e.V. to plan…

D(at)YW: Training of Trainers for Digital Education – C1 2.0 – Online

Between September 29th and 30th, the consortium of partners has managed to run the 2.0 version of the C1 Activity – Training of Trainers for Digital Education. This time, completely based on the e-Learning Platform. The experience from summer has shown us that digital youth work upgrade online is possible, and can even be more…