There’s lot of talk at the moment about the future of youth work. Marko’s been blogging extracts from his new book ‘Youth Ministry 3.0…‘ looking at how we’re missing the mark in [US] youth ministry, and what needs to change in order to more truly live into our calling as youth workers.
Over this side of the Atlantic, Tim Davies has been running a survey on Youth Work and Social Networking for the NYA and has set-up an online network for looking at the use of social media in informal education.
If you’re interested in exploring what social media means for youth services, participation projects, IAG, or any other organisations providing support, advice and activities to young people – do come and join us over on the UK Youth Online Ning network.
I would encourage any youth worker with an online presence to go and join the conversation with Tim. There’s a lot to be explored!
Finally, if you’re confused about the different stages of online development, Steven Flower nicely summarises the ‘Point O’ progression:
Web 1.0 was about receiving content
Web 2.0 was/is about making / contributing content
Web 3.0 is about filtering information
Where are you on this scale and how do you use it in your work with young people?
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Hi,
Thanks for the reference!
Regarding the 1.0>3.0 progression – I think it would be interesting to look at this in terms of a typical youth centre and the adoption of ICT…
1.0 was probably about installing the equipment
2.0 is around making stuff – media projects, DJing, etc
3.0 could be around using the process of making the content to further engage…
There will be countless 3.0 youth projects already in action, so I wouldn’t suggest that youth work is necessarily still at 1.0 !
Hi,
Thanks for the reference!
Regarding the 1.0>3.0 progression – I think it would be interesting to look at this in terms of a typical youth centre and the adoption of ICT…
1.0 was probably about installing the equipment
2.0 is around making stuff – media projects, DJing, etc
3.0 could be around using the process of making the content to further engage…
There will be countless 3.0 youth projects already in action, so I wouldn’t suggest that youth work is necessarily still at 1.0 !