Toolbox
This online toolbox is designed to provide young people and the professionals who work with them the skills, knowledge and confidence to deal with a number of issues relevant to Orpheus’s developing young people’s sense of global democratic citizenship and increasing their resilience to violent extremist narratives.
The topics covered include social bonding, alternarratives, critical thinking, discussing controversial issues, politicisation and media literacy.
These trainings were created by experts and have been tested with several frontline workers (teacherfs, youth workers, councelors, …) throughout the span of the project. All of the material is downloadable.
After you’ve downloaded them, you can find them under ‘My Account”. If you have any remarks on the material, please use the “My Account” page to contact us.
Online Safety
Critical thinking & online awareness
This training is designed to help youth workers, teachers and other professionals support young people to develop their online awareness and critical literacy skills, reducing their susceptibility to online disinformation, which may include violent extremist narratives, and building resilience to cybercrime.
Objectives
Professionals completing this training will:
- gain an understanding of the different types of false information young people may encounter online
- gain an understanding of how and why false information online propagates and how it may put young people at risk
- gain the skills, knowledge, ability and confidence to support young people to develop their critical thinking skills to be able to evaluate effectively the information they encounter online.
- gain the skills, knowledge, ability and confidence to support young people to develop their critical thinking skills to be able to evaluate effectively the information they encounter online.
- understand how young people can protect themselves from cybercrime (optional)
Learning Outcomes
(transferred into the workplace)
- the skills, knowledge and confidence to support young people to develop their critical thinking skills to be able to effectively evaluate information they counter online
- the skills, knowledge and confidence to empower young people to use the internet safely
- be able to support young people to identify and protect themselves from cybercrime (optional)
Topics included
- Key terms and definitions: disinformation, misinformation, “fake news
- How does false information spread online and what are the risks to young people?
- Common examples of false information online
- Fact checking and fact checking organisations
- Guided activities to build confidence and experience in evaluating online news
- Common types of cybercrime (optional), how to protect against cybercrime (optional), Discussion scenarios to build confidence in supporting and advising young people
Manual for engaging with youth in chatroom settings
This training is designed to help youth workers, teachers and other professionals support young people to develop their online awareness and critical literacy skills, reducing their susceptibility to online disinformation, which may include violent extremist narratives, and building resilience to cybercrime.
Objectives
Professionals completing this training will:
- gain an understanding of the different types of false information young people may encounter online
- gain an understanding of how and why false information online propagates and how it may put young people at risk
- gain the skills, knowledge, ability and confidence to support young people to develop their critical thinking skills to be able to evaluate effectively the information they encounter online.
- gain the skills, knowledge, ability and confidence to support young people to develop their critical thinking skills to be able to evaluate effectively the information they encounter online.
- understand how young people can protect themselves from cybercrime (optional)
Learning Outcomes
(transferred into the workplace)
- the skills, knowledge and confidence to support young people to develop their critical thinking skills to be able to effectively evaluate information they counter online
- the skills, knowledge and confidence to empower young people to use the internet safely
- be able to support young people to identify and protect themselves from cybercrime (optional)
Topics included
- Key terms and definitions: disinformation, misinformation, “fake news
- How does false information spread online and what are the risks to young people?
- Common examples of false information online
- Fact checking and fact checking organisations
- Guided activities to build confidence and experience in evaluating online news
- Common types of cybercrime (optional), how to protect against cybercrime (optional), Discussion scenarios to build confidence in supporting and advising young people
Media literacy for youth
This training is different from the others as it is created for a young audience. This training will be given to audiences in schools, youth centres and other youth hubs. We provided this training as an extra tool for youth workers and educators as to how they can improve online resilience and awareness in their youth groups.
This training should preferably be consulted after having completed the ‘Critical thinking & online awareness’ trajectory from our toolbox.
Objectives
Key elements of the media literacy module
- “disinformation”
- “fake news”
- “Memeology”
Methods
(transferred into the workplace)
- Framing: we investigate how different media use the concept of framing to prioritise or even manipulate certain news items to influence audiences’ decision-making processes.
- Nudging: we investigate how different media use the concept of nudging to attempt to influence people’s judgment, choice or behaviour motivated by cognitive boundaries, biases, routine thinking and habits.
- Factfulness training: we delve into the world of facts and statistics to explore whether young people’s view of the world actually measures up to reality with the help of ‘factfulness theory’ by Hans Rosling.
- Fast & slow thinking: we look into how our brain processes bits of information and why everyone is susceptible to making thinking ‘mistakes’ by exploring segments of Daniel Kahneman’s book ‘Thinking, Fast & Slow’.
Offline
Social Bonding
This trajectory has been put together to help youth workers & educators implement social bonding mechanisms into their respective safe space settings. Preventive work related to violent extremism also means increasing young people’s resilience and guiding them in the search for their identity.
Needs of young people
Needs of young people
- the need to develop and express their own ideas and getting acknowledged for it.
- Learning from their peers and guidance from role model figures.
- Improving relationships between young participantsLearning from their peers and guidance from role model figures.
- Creating a space where no new frustrations arise, and where grievances are explored
Objectives
- Mindfulness
- Solidarity
- Resilience
Methods
- Reflecting on emotions in safe space settings guided by storytelling of youth worker or educator
- Peer-to-peer: development of soft-skills in problem solving settings and/or job/internship application processes
- Life book: tracking own progress by gathering coaching advices and questions in a diary/blog format
Alternatives: "Street culture"
This module investigates how an alter-narrative can be created around a controversial topic. Our team has picked the topic of ‘street culture’ to showcase this process.
What is street culture?
- The training takes a deeper look into what street culture entails. We zoom out and look at the concept inside out and vice versa. The trajectory focuses on the negatives as well as the positives with input from both young people who relate to street culture and external stake holders.
Methods discussed
- Practical examples of exercises and mechanism that can be implemented by youth workers, educators and other stakeholders in safe space settings.
Controversial issues
This module investigates how an alter-narrative can be created around a controversial topic. Our team has picked the topic of ‘street culture’ to showcase this process.
What is street culture?
- The training takes a deeper look into what street culture entails. We zoom out and look at the concept inside out and vice versa. The trajectory focuses on the negatives as well as the positives with input from both young people who relate to street culture and external stake holders.
Methods discussed
- Practical examples of exercises and mechanism that can be implemented by youth workers, educators and other stakeholders in safe space settings.
Controversial issues
This module investigates how an alter-narrative can be created around a controversial topic. Our team has picked the topic of ‘street culture’ to showcase this process.
What is street culture?
- The training takes a deeper look into what street culture entails. We zoom out and look at the concept inside out and vice versa. The trajectory focuses on the negatives as well as the positives with input from both young people who relate to street culture and external stake holders.
Methods discussed
- Practical examples of exercises and mechanism that can be implemented by youth workers, educators and other stakeholders in safe space settings.