Youth and AI
Integrating AI into the daily work of youth workers.
- Type
- Educational training
- In collaboration with
- Hungarian National Agency
- Context
- My year-long Training of Trainers learning path
- Participants
- Youth workers
- My role
- Trainer
What happens when youth workers stop hearing about AI and start using it on their own tasks, in a room with colleagues, with time to fail?
Context
Youth and AI is an educational training developed in collaboration with the Hungarian National Agency, in the context of my year-long Training of Trainers learning path.
It was designed for youth workers who wanted to understand where AI tools fit in their everyday practice: planning sessions, preparing materials, communicating with young people, writing and reporting.
The challenge
Most youth workers meet AI tools as consumers: a chat here, a summary there. Few get to test them on a real task from their own work, compare the results, and decide consciously where the tools help and where they get in the way.
The educational question was easy to state and hard to answer: how do you integrate AI into daily youth work without losing the human relationship at its centre?
The approach
The training is built on the Explore, Try, Reflect, Apply approach, with the emphasis on doing.
Real tasks, not demos
Participants work on tasks from their own practice rather than on prepared examples, so every result matters to someone in the room.
Hands on, side by side
Tools are tested in pairs and small groups, with time to compare outputs and to disagree about them.
Check before you trust
Every output is read critically: what was invented, what was flattened, what was genuinely useful.
From experience to activity
The last step turns what participants have learned into something for their own young people: an activity, a routine, a rule of thumb.
What this kind of learning means for youth workers
- AI becomes a tool to test rather than a topic to fear or to admire from a distance.
- Responsible use is learned by practising it: checking, questioning, deciding. Not by reading a policy.
- The best activities for young people come from youth workers who have tried the tools themselves.
Confirmed outcomes
- Delivered in collaboration with the Hungarian National Agency, in the context of my Training of Trainers learning path.
- A hands-on programme on integrating AI into the daily work of youth workers, built on the Explore, Try, Reflect, Apply approach.
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