How could “Bring Your Own Device” work in your setting?

A great deal has been written about the use of “Bring Your Own Device” in educational settings, about how is has the ability to transform young people’s learning, the challenges and benefits that this presents to teachers, schools, young people and parents.  But have people been thinking about this could be transferred into different settings?

The benefits of young people using their own devices in education…

Last week Facebook announced changes to their search feature to date with the limited beta release of Graph search.  This new feature will allow users to sift through pictures, posts and messages in a way that Facebook states could transform how people use the social network.

Graph search is a return to Facebook’s earliest days, opening up access to material that was always there but making it more readily available.  The information that has come directly from Facebook has a big…

The new year is upon us and it is the perfect time to set yourself some new challenges or change the way you use social media, here’s the top ten for 2013 from Online Youth Outreach…

Try something new – sign up to a social network that you haven’t used before.  Take time to understand how it works and how it could work for you and your organisation.  Google + is to predicted to rise to be the must use service of 2013, and the new myspace will be…

As youth work professionals we all understand how important reflective practice and sharing is, and with the youth sector under serious threat, funding depleted and services closing down every week it is vital that we come together to share our expertise, our experiences and our thoughts about youth work and the sector more widely. Through this we can encourage an open dialogue, collaboration, sharing, transparency, replication not duplication, and a national sense of…

Nielsen – a global information and measurement company, launched their “State of the Media: the social media report 2012” 12th of December.   This report is based on a survey completed with 2000 social media users in the US between July and August this year.  What initially caught my eye about this report was a tweet about 32% of people aged 18-24 used social networking while in the bathroom – so I thought I’d take a further look!

The report starts by looking at…

10th January 2013 - your New Year gift to yourself!

There are positive and negative aspects to social media – but whatever our views - young people are in those social media spaces and we as youth practitioners need to understand this online environment.

Social media are part of young people’s everyday lives (Facebook, messenger, bebo etc). As practitioners, and managers of practitioners working with young people how should we respond to this?

Should we ignore the…

Hi.

I have been ordered by Katie to write something about working and living on a small island.

Someone said that i takes a village to raise a child, that is some what pin pointing what i do. The southern archipelago of Gothenburg is a very close community were everbody knows everbody. It´s only reachable by boat and there are no cars allowed.

When you work and live like that you are almost constantly at work, sometimes you get paid and sometimes…

Yesterday I stumbled upon tweets on the #y&cstudents2012 hash-tag that seemed to show youth work courses across the country collaborating online for youth work week. 

I've not found if there was an online centre to the event -but you can see some of the videos participants created here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9mbedQws27V1ATYMrKUl4A?feature=watch 

The Kensington and Chelsea Youth Support and Development Service (YSDS) is a well-established and progressive department with strong links to a variety of partners including the voluntary sector, schools and external agencies. Our YSDS integrates sports, arts, youth work, health education and Connexions to ensure that local young people benefit from a broad range of development opportunities.



The YSDS provides a service for children aged 8 to 13 and young people between 13 and 19…

– A study by the Internet Watch Foundation shows that 88% of the self-generated, sexually explicit online images and videos of young people their analysts encountered had been taken from their original location and uploaded onto other websites. Childnet and the South West Grid for Learning have developed two resources to help raise awareness of the potential consequences of sharing…

What’s the project?

Our Leaders are a diverse group of 16-25 year-olds (from all over the UK) who help develop our flagship website TheSite.org. As well as being part of an online network, they also meet four times a year to participate in team activities and receive training to develop their digital and team working skills.

Who are we looking for?

We’re looking for someone in the field of youth work who has significant experience delivering workshops for…

The Blackberry project and its context:

The "I Speke Out Project" is a multi agency approach to e-safety across the South of Liverpool. Speke is an area of high social deprivation and in 2011 it was noticed that a large number of children had recieved Blackberry Handheld devices as Christmas presents. The youngest being child being five years old. We wondered whether parents fully understood what they were…

27th November - Algate east, London

There are positive and negative aspects to social media – but whatever our views - young people are in those social media spaces and we as youth practitioners need to understand this online environment.

Social media are part of young people’s everyday lives (Facebook, messenger, bebo etc). As practitioners, and managers of practitioners working with young people how should we respond to this?

Should we ignore the technology and play…

Cyberbullying is unfortunately all too common among children…

In the framework of the project "Young people combating hate speech online", the Youth Department of the Council of Europe launches a survey on young people's attitudes and experience of online hate speech.



The survey targets young people in Europe and beyond and will provide empirical data to better shape the online campaign against hate speech. The survey takes only 15 minutes and is available in: 



English: …

The …

Sheila Curran and Tyrrell Golding have just published a new paper looking at how the growth of digital technology has potential for youth work training. 

The abstract is below, and the full paper can be found here.

The last decade has witnessed significant growth in the use of digital technologies.…

I've been working with a team of PhD students from Southampton University today in the municipality of Dyroy in North Norway, where the local community are hosting their bi-annual conference - this year focussed on youth participation.

We've heard from local youth councillors, social entrepreneurs, and…

Young people need guidance to cope with the threats posed by social media

Artilce written by Stephen Carrick-Davies, Guardian News Paper, Tuesday 7th August 2012.  He kindly agreed for Katie Bacon to post this on his behalf. 

This week marks the first anniversary of the summer riots, where mobile devices played such an important part in connecting rioters with each other and…