Just delivered this training again and the safety focus always highlights the naivety of practitioners, especially in relation to their own children. Always get people coming up to me afterwards saying that they're going to check more carefully on their teenagers...
Guess that's good for me - ticking off the outcomes, but it's also scary that people don't realise the huge potential for danger and damage.
On the flip side, the message is also about the positive and fantastic resource that the internet gives us, already changed so much since my last presentation a year ago, for example, the prevalence of smartphones. I wonder where it can all go to and will it start to slow, or come to a complete stop at some point?
On a lighter note, watched the remastered Star Trek last night. Wow - those writers predicted it all: flip phones, blue tooth hands-free, ear pieces, GPRS. Spock's tri-corder was a bit of a let down though - looked like a squeezy bottle mounted on a handlebar grip. Probably was!
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Monday, 4 April 2011
Skills for Youth Work in a Digital Age workshop
Very interesting day with colleagues in Southampton, particularly being able to share stuff relating to HE, youth work and digital media.
Identified that we need to get a presence within the Y&C academic community, and Youth & Policy is the place to start. Will be interesting to adapt what I've already written to create a journal article: perhaps I will start to feel like a academic?
Have also got some focus for Assignment 2: that of the idea of an M level module around digital skills, possibly aimed at a more interdisciplinary context? Could survey across the field to get a sense of content/what's needed, and then follow up with key interviews perhaps? Might be interesting to analyse using something like SurveyMonkey to see how many people engage and how it works? Possibly follow up some with interviews? More to think about!
Identified that we need to get a presence within the Y&C academic community, and Youth & Policy is the place to start. Will be interesting to adapt what I've already written to create a journal article: perhaps I will start to feel like a academic?
Have also got some focus for Assignment 2: that of the idea of an M level module around digital skills, possibly aimed at a more interdisciplinary context? Could survey across the field to get a sense of content/what's needed, and then follow up with key interviews perhaps? Might be interesting to analyse using something like SurveyMonkey to see how many people engage and how it works? Possibly follow up some with interviews? More to think about!
Sunday, 3 April 2011
Sounds familiar....
Having posted earlier, my horoscope for today is...
"Your ongoing struggle now is about balancing work and play, yet the New Moon in your 5th House of Fun and Games currently emphasizes the lighter side of life. It's nearly impossible to be too serious, even if you have many obligations to fulfill. Don't sweat it if you leave a task unfinished or miss a deadline today. However, you still must pay attention to your previous commitments or life will quickly get complicated."
Sounds familiar...
"Your ongoing struggle now is about balancing work and play, yet the New Moon in your 5th House of Fun and Games currently emphasizes the lighter side of life. It's nearly impossible to be too serious, even if you have many obligations to fulfill. Don't sweat it if you leave a task unfinished or miss a deadline today. However, you still must pay attention to your previous commitments or life will quickly get complicated."
Sounds familiar...
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