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Digital Natives Forum
Spain · Mérida · Regional · See the Spain profile
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 97% 32/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice
Digital Natives Forum is an educational program designed to promote among students a reflection on the use they make of cell phones, computers and tablets, websites, social networks, applications, electronic games and on other topics related to the current state of emerging techn
226 centres
Centres participating in tutoring activities (ongoing)
77 centres
Centres participating in CyberMentors activities (ongoing)
72 centres
Centres participating in family training activities (ongoing)
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- EMTIC (Educación, Metodología, Tecnología, Innovación, Conocimiento).Junta de Extremadura-Consejería de Educación y Empleo — website
- Type
- Other
- Status
- Ongoing
- Target groups
- Marginalised young people and children
- Period
- 2015-11-30
- Region (NUTS)
ES43- Keywords
- responsible use, cybermentors, emergin technologies
Context
As digital technology becomes ever more present in young people's lives in Extremadura, students face rising risk of exposure to inappropriate content and of engaging in risky online behaviour themselves, creating a need for structured digital-safety education.
Objectives
Promote reflection among students on their use of phones, computers, social networks, apps and games, improve teacher training, and detect and prevent risk behaviours such as cyberbullying, sexting, grooming and online gambling.
Activities
Downloadable, classroom-ready materials (presentation, teacher's guide, family handout) cover topics from netiquette to cyberbullying and fake news; the programme also runs tutoring sessions, a CyberMentors peer-mentoring strand, and family training sessions, open to all publicly funded, pre-university centres in Extremadura.
Results
226 centres take part in the tutoring activities, 77 in the CyberMentors activities for students, and 72 in the family training activities; no formal evaluation of outcomes has been published.
Conclusions
Digital Natives Forum has achieved broad uptake across Extremadura's school network, but without independent evaluation its effect on student behaviour or online-safety outcomes cannot be assessed from the available material.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Low (< €50k) — Not disclosed in source; primarily materials-development and coordination costs plus in-kind teacher time, run by the regional education department (EMTIC).
- Time to results
- Medium (1–3 years) — Ongoing programme, started in 2015, operating on an annual academic-year cycle across participating centres.
- Staffing & skills
- Regional education department (EMTIC, Junta de Extremadura) coordinates content; participating schools' teachers deliver classroom sessions; CyberMentors are trained student peer mentors - specific staffing levels not detailed in source
Conditions for success
- Ready-to-use, downloadable classroom materials (presentation, teacher's guide, family handout) lower the burden on individual teachers
- Peer-mentoring (CyberMentors) strand extends reach beyond formal tutoring lessons
- Open to all publicly-funded pre-university centres in the region, enabling broad voluntary participation
Common failure modes
- No independent evaluation is reported, so it is unclear whether participation translates into safer online behaviour
- Reliance on voluntary school participation means uptake varies across strands (226 centres in tutoring vs. 72-77 in the other two)
Where it fits
- Governance type
- regional education authority (Junta de Extremadura)
- Scale
- regional
- Income level
- general school population, not income-targeted
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
- Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
- Information source — accessed 2026-06-14
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