Presentation on Feset 2014 Finland

1. Media literacy training in youth work.
Davy Nijs

3. www.esocialwork.eu
@DavyNijs
esocialwork@khlim.be
davy.nijs@khlim.be
Research
Services (eg. service training)
Education
Media literacy
Online assistance (e-health)
Internetaddication
Gaming

4. Society is
digitalizing

6. Benedictus XVI
Franciscus

11. Via @thebandb

12. If our youth is online…

13. Social care work is
digitalizing

14. Prehistory?

15. As society turns more digital,
social care workers today are working
in an area where digital competences
have become a prerequisite to ensure
high quality social care work.

17. Media literacy (media wisdom)
• Media literacy is the set of knowledge, skills and
attitudes that citizens are aware of to live with a
critical attitude in a complex, changing and mediatized
world. It is the capacity for an active and creative use
of media that focuses on social participation in the
public sphere.
• Media literacy is not just about practical ICT skills such
as reading and smooth handling or creative use of
different media, but also about media awareness in
practice, understanding the mechanisms of commercial
communications and media industries, handling
information with a critical mind, strategic skills and
the responsible and safe use of media.”

18. Vice- Minister-President of the Flemish Government
and Flemish Minister for Innovation, Public
Investment, Media and Poverty Reduction.

19. There is a need for programs
that support social care workers
to become more media literate.
The Mediatrain project developed a method
to support social care workers
in special youth care to develop
media literacy skills.

20. Special Youth Care (Flanders)
• Situation before March 2014.
The assistance of Flemish Special Youth Care (BJZ)
tries to meet the needs of minors and their
parents when they are in a problematic
educational situation (POS) or when a minor
committed an offense (MOF). Access to this help
is restricted based on a referral by the Committee
for Special Youth Care (CBJ) or by the juvenile
court.
• Mediatrain reached 50/150 organisational
structures.

21. Start
• 3 intro-sessions
Train
• Training (measurement 1)
• Reunion
Close
• measurement 2
• conference

22. 6 M
Kick-
off
Reflec
tion
Who?
What?
Where?
MW-test 1
learning
MW-test 2
MW-plan
Safety planner
Own process (e.g. MW-plan, safety planner, coursebook, …)
start ONLINE COACHING (via www.e-hulpvlaanderen.be)

24. Measuring
media literacy
of social care workers

25. Measuring Media Literacy
80%
Are you media
literate?
Or are you
not?
Eu,
well…

26. To measure the effects of
the Mediatrain project
on the media literacy of social care workers
and the organisation they work in.

27. Evaluation of 4 parameters:
• Knowledge
– The basics of E-mail
– The basics of www
– Internet security
• Skills
– Active use of online media
– Creative use of media
– Participation in the online society
• Attitudes
– Media awareness
– Insight ins the mechanisms of commercial and media industry
– Critical information and strategic skills
– Responsible and safe use of media
• Comfortable use of Internet (Internetcomfort)

31. “Passing on” skills and attitudes
increase of 20%
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
skills
attitudes
internetcomfort
frequency
Have Passing before Passing after

32. conclusions
• Safe and active use of internet
– > internet protocol
– > common agreements on internet activities
• No improvement but changing of awareness
• Strong relationship between ML-skills and
Internet Comfort
• Subjective instrument

33. The Mediatrain project has lead to a more
media literate culture in Flemish special
youth care as more attention is given to the
introduction and use of specific protocols
and common agreements about uploading,
downloading, use and distribution of digital
materials

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