Project facilitated through Salesian educational centers

(MissionNewswire) The Delegation for Youth Ministry in the Argentina North Province is promoting the “Digital Courtyards: Navigating and Inhabiting with Awareness” educational project. This initiative aims to foster active, critical, and responsible digital citizenship among youth and adults. The project will be facilitated through Salesian educational centers.

One of the project’s leaders noted, “This arises as a response to the transformations that new technologies are bringing about in ways of learning, relating, communicating and expressing oneself. The internet and social networks have become spaces for participation and socialization, where great opportunities for growth and learning coexist with situations of vulnerability, overexposure, and risk.”

The project will support technological evolution in Salesian educational communities through a proactive approach, promoting the development of digital skills grounded in values, critical thinking and personal care. The main objective is to encourage safe, informed, and responsible use of the internet, social networks, and new technologies.

This is achieved through spaces for reflection, training and awareness-raising. Training courses will be organized for educators, managers, youth leaders, and adults responsible for educational and pastoral communities. They will gain access to the tools, criteria, and pedagogical resources useful for understanding contemporary digital technologies and how to guide new generations in virtual environments.

A Salesian explained, “The goal is to ensure that adolescents and young people are not simply recipients of information, but active participants in building a more humane, respectful, supportive, and informed digital culture. The planned initiatives include training courses for educators and pastoral workers, digital citizenship workshops in schools, a provincial communications and awareness campaign, and a festival of audiovisual productions made by young people.”

The project is financially supported by the Salesian Mission Office in Madrid and benefits from the support of the Technology with Purpose Foundation, an organization specializing in digital citizenship and technology education.

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ANS – Argentina – Inhabiting the digital world with awareness: the “Digital Courtyards” proposal

Salesian Missions – Argentina

World Bank – Argentina