THE NEW PLAYGROUND

We invite you to dive into this manual and give a like to The New Playground: A Guide to Play Safe. You can download the document here:

The manual The New Playground: A Guide to Play Safe was created within the framework of the European ERASMUS+ project “(Dis)Connected Realities.” The main objectives of the manual are to inform, raise awareness, and sensitize professionals about the use of social media and its impact on young people’s emotional well-being. This guide also aims to provide practical tools for the critical and healthy use of social media, as well as for preventing risks associated with technology misuse, emphasizing that technology itself is not negative but awareness about how it is used is essential.

Through a joint effort by the Spanish organizations ALBORES and MIRAS, and the Portuguese institution Escola Técnica Profissional da Moita, this manual seeks to offer guidance to youth workers in this area. The open-access manual The New Playground: A Guide to Play Safe was developed by a multidisciplinary team including youth workers, teachers, psychologists, sociologists from the three coordinating organizations, as well as other European partner entities. Its creation was driven by the needs of youth professionals, who often lack strategies and tools to work with young people on conscious social media use.