The Talking Youth Work Podcast

Educational Escape Rooms with Gabi Steinprinz, episode 6

Episode 6 of the Talking Youth Work podcast is with Gabi Steinprinz about Educational Escape Rooms.

Gabi is - in her own words - a game addict, and also a creative person, so in a project also funded by Erasmus+ she decided to experiment joining the gaming part of escape rooms with the learning/educational part.

The results were very interesting, with a high engagement of the learners, interesting challenges, the focus on the learning and especially the fun part.

Educational escape rooms can be used to help young people deal with all kind of social issues, as for example gender discrimination.

It was a nice conversation that showed us a very innovative way on how learning can be an immersive experience.

Link for the Educational Tools Portal, here.

First published on Monday Sep 24, 2018

Trends in young people with Ellen Anthoni, episode 5

This is truly a handful, it is our fifth episode, and our guest this time is Ellen Anthoni, who's a trendwatcher.

Ellen has worked in recent years for Trendwolves, working on their trend reports.

We had another interviewer with us, Tomáš Pešek, that was a big help with very insightful questions.

During our conversation with Ellen we tried to understand what is trendwatching, and how it is important to all of us, but in this case, youthworkers.

Some of the trends that we talked about were:

• Blurred lives
• Super sculpted selves
• Crazy health trends

Blurred lives is a very important one, because youngsters don't want to limit themselves to one thing, and without a clear definition of who they are, normal interactions need to be re-thinked.

These are big concepts that Ellen helped us understand, and she also gave nice tips so we can become trendwatchers ourselves.

Ellen's website.

Trendwolves website.

First published on

Monday Sep 03, 2018

Game based learning with Stephan Schölzel, episode 4

This episode is with Stephan Schölzel, a youth worker that uses games as a vehicle to talk about other subjects with young people, and by using games we can learn about what are their concerns but also their interests. 

A lot of times people criticize video games because of the absent mindedness it may cause in our children, but, if we can see the potential of engagement that video games have, we can tap into something that we better connects us with young people, and by using games we can improve social skills related to empathy, resilience and much more.

Stephan brings a lot of good insights about how to use games, and examples of real life situations where games were used to tackle questions like gender, for example.

The website with resources that is mentioned in the podcast is in german, but google translation can help the non-german speakers.

Digitale Spielewelten 

First published on Tuesday Aug 14, 2018

Improvisation Theatre with Gergely Kiss, episode 3

Here is a fresh episode of “Talking Youth”, a podcast about innovation in youth work. This time we talked with Gergely Kiss about using Improvisation Theatre with young people and the skills they develop while practicing it. Ready? 3,2,1....scene!

 

The book mentioned by Gery , "Impro for Storytellers" by Keith Johnstone

First published on Tuesday Jul 24, 2018

Digital Innovation with Nerijus Kriauciunas, episode 2

In this episode we talked  with Nerijus Kriauciunas, an international trainer in the field of youth. Nerijus is really a reference when it comes to connecting the digital world to youth work on the field. We started talking about his personal journey  into youth work and how that shaped what he does today. in the beginning Nerijus connects references like Paulo Freire on Education and critical thinking with Mcluhan on Media literacy, which I find really interesting. Than we discussed a bit how he sees innovation in the field of youth and we identified possible barriers that might be stopping youth workers to become more innovative. Finally Nerijus left some really precious tips on digital tools that you might want to consider if you work directly with young people. It was a real pleasure to have him on the show. So get ready… let's talk youth work.

Resources talked in this episode:

• Badge Craft
• ActionBound
• Klikaklu
• Meistertask

First published on Wednesday Jun 20, 2018

Presentation of the Project, Talking with the partners, episode 1

In the first episode the partners are discussing on the project goal and the importance for developing digital youth work.

First published on Wednesday May 09, 2018