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Social media risks for our teenagers
In March this year a group of 29 youth workers from 9 different countries joined us in the Netherlands to discuss this valuable topic. The project is called Techrouters and is funded by the Erasmus+ program of Europe. This idea was to create a toolbox that could help youth workers to address this with the young people, youth organizations and schools in their home country. During on entire week the participants did roll plays, workshops and openly discussed their own experiences.
The toolbox that has been created, with an introduction by STIR about the development phases of our youngsters, can be downloaded here. We would appreciate it if you could add your own experiences and methods to it and share this with us.
Social media impact on our youth
The Techrouter project involves 30 youth workers from 9 different countries. They came together in the Netherlands to discuss the impact of social media on our younger generations and how to create a learning mechanism to safeguard them from all the negative aspects (core value: safety and respect). Especially the early teens are vulnerable since they are still in a competitive growing up phase in which they are highly innocent, influenceable and unaware of the impact of their actions on others. In times when they should be building a positive self image the tendency is to be guided by the abundant fakeness of social media. No parental or adult embedding is there to help them because their actions are mostly invisible, they have no reference models and parents are often inexperienced in this world of virtual interactions.
A whole week of creative interaction is making the difference. Here are some photos of the process. The gathering is financed via Erasmus+. The objective is to create something that can be used in the different countries and cultures during several months, gathering feedback and linking with new programs.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 