# My learning journey - [Ruractive LCT]

## About me

**Name:** Natalia Kut

**Background:** I am a teacher in local school. My community is located in mountains.

**Interests:** This course covers a wide variety of different digital subjects. It offers practical applications that resonate with real-world issues and challenges my community is facing.

**Goals:** Gaining experience in managing, organising and storing digital data, information, and content; interacting through digital technologies; being aware of online dangers to keep yourself and your organisation safe

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### 📖 Week 1: Empowering communities through digital literacy and inclusive education
**🗂 What I Learned:**
During the session we watched how technology enhances education in communities. We filled in Reflection Canvas. We learned an interesting activity "Reverse Brainstorming". It is like head over heels in finding solutions.

**What I did:**

The first thing I did was createing a questionary for revealing the issues we are facing. The target groups are women, youth, unemployed. Next step was working with a map. On the Google My Maps I identified potential resources, added institutions that could provide educational content, identified potential community spaces, pinned local community

**📸 Media & Resources:**
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**💡 Reflection:**
There are obstacles to set up new businesses and lack of basic service in rural area. Discovering the presentations we watched at the previous session I found out interesting and useful solutions. I identified some sources wich can support our local training initiatives.

National Nature park "Synevyr" could be a great knowledge source.This institution deals with protecting environment, provides a lot of educational events, takes part in different ecological projects. The Building of Synevyr Community, The Shepherd farm could serve as a space for conducting trainings. As knowledge transfer could serve such institutions as Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and UNIBO.

NGO FORZA,"" Agency for sustainable development of the Carpathian region» is a professional, independent, non-governmental, non-commercial and non-profit NGO. This NGO is a resource that supports my training. The Arnica Hotel owns space for meetings.
In my community there is a youth hub where young people can gather.

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### 📖 Week 2: Digital technologies for rapid prototyping
**🗂 What I Learned:**
In the second-week session we had an opportunity to watch the presentation about El Lindar and its initiative "La fabrica de el lindar". El Lindar is a second chance school. It provides early school-leavers and vulnerable youth with educational training and job placement opportunities in the digital manufacturing industry.This school is a good model for making youth engaged.
At the session we had a couple of activities. Firstly, we mapped tools for digital prototyping. Secondly, we got a challange and found solutions. We made schematic sketches. The next step was designing these into 3D prototypes with AI-assisted tools.

**📸 Media & Resources:**
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- 🎥 Videos: [Video Link]
- 📂 Files: [Download Here](file_link)

**💡 Reflection:**
Rural communities face a number of challenges compared to urban areas. These include transport difficulties, less choice over services, education and employment. Many young people are considering leaving rural communities as a result. In my opinion, young people are better learners. Youth gains knowledge faster, they are more flexible for engaging in different tasks and projects. To my mind, supporting youth would benefit the community. So I decided to deal with young people. The solution could be creating a digital youth hub. It could be a place where young people would gain some digital knowledge and get job opportunities. I used https://grok.com/?referrer=website for drawing a model of a hub. I have never used 3D modelling tools before, so it was challenging.

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### 📖 Week 3: Co-creation and innovation
**🗂 What I Learned:**
This session began with warm-up activity called Starfish Retrospective (for collecting previous experience). Then we had a challenge concerning the digital divide in communities. There were questions for which we have been finding solutions during our participation in this project.
We watched the presentation about co-creation. The presentation included some practical ideas. Co-creation practice trains engaged stakeholders to share responsibility and gain know-how in addressing the challenges and iterating solutions on the go. Co-creation is initiated by the facilitation team with the support of relevant stakeholders and community as a whole. There are some useful tools and toolkits to help us make what project needs next, full of digital and PDF-tools.
In the second part of the session, we focused on developing strategy tailored to local communities. We decided the structure of our future training sessions

**📸 Media & Resources:**
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- 🎥 Videos: [Video Link]
- 📂 Files: [Download Here](file_link)

**💡 Reflection:**
The key members of my community are youth, women, elderly, unemployed. People mostly go abroad for seasonal work, work in their own households, raise cattle, gather berries and mushrooms. There is no big interaction between citizens. The community is tourist attractive, located in national nature park. People are not digital familiar, but the infrastructure is more than average. Only elderly have no digital education, women and youth have elementary digital skills.
While studying the presentation I discovered some interesting projects. As my community is mountainous, there is a sheep farm. Accordingly, there is much wool. Shemakes project conducted an event or workshop “Little wool factory workshop”. This workshop aims at introducing beginners to wool spinning and spinning machines. The aim is to implement new technologies in the wool process and combine the knowledge of craftmanship with digital tools. This is a good idea for involving women.

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### 📖 Week 4: Artificial Intelligence
**🗂 What I Learned:**
In this 4th session we explored Artificial Intelligence and its role in data literacy. We got acquainted with key AI concepts, tools and platforms for AI prototyping. AI is technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human learning, comprehension, problem solving, decision making, creativity and autonomy. It enables machines or software to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language understanding.
Also we have watched the presentation about computational agroecology. The project develops an open-source, affordable, multipurpose platform adapted to support organic and poly-culture market-garden farms. The presenter develops AI-driven robotic solutions to support micro-farming. Open-source robotic tools can assist farmers in completing physically demanding or tedious tasks and can help with planning complex planting. Over four years, ROMI will work on the development of three robotic tools: a mechanical weeding robot, an aerial robot for crop monitoring and a 3D scanner for phenotyping in indoor and outdoor environments.

**📸 Media & Resources:**
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- 🎥 Videos: [Video Link]
- 🔗 Links: [Soundtrack](https://suno.com/song/18f93b8d-b677-4a04-8f69-c7dd54a58b28?sh=1jPTLNPyjKyjiknb)

**💡 Reflection:**
When watching the presentation, many practical ideas came to mind. An aerial robot could be useful for sheep breeding, finding better pasture in my community. What if it would be created a robot for milking sheep or a Robo-guard for sheep.

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### 📖 Week 5: Digital content creation
### Digital tech + data visualization

**🗂 What I Learned:**
During this session we explored the potential of open data and data visualization to enhance communication and engagement in community projects.

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**💡 Reflection:**
I created a communication material using Piktochart.com. My choice is a flyer. It is easy to post or distribute in a public place, hand out to individuals or send through the mail. The slogan is "Connect. Create. Grow. Come and gain knowledge in digital literacy."
Target groups are Youth ( 16- 20), having elementary digital skills, which could be enhanced for carrier prospects .
Women. Mostly working in households, could gain knowledge in online selling of homemade products.

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### 📖 Week 6: Sustainable Innovation
**Digital Tools and Maker Practices**

**🗂 What I Learned:**
During this session we explored how sustainable design and maker practices empower rural communities fostering collaboration and local innovation. We gained insights how these approaches strengthen citizen engagement, build resilient communities, and help bridge digital divide. We watched the presentation about FarmLab – a rural hub fostering creativity and collaboration through the fusion of sustainability, nature conservation, traditional crafts and digital tools. By bridging global craft traditions with advanced digital technologies FarmLab aims to inspire new approaches to working with natural materials—such as wool, willow, wood, clay, and leather—while strengthening the bond between people and the land.

**📸 Media & Resources:**
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- 🎥 Videos: [Video Link]
- 📂 Files: [Download Here](file_link)

**💡 Reflection:**
[How did this topic impact you? What challenges did you face?]

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## 🌟 Final Thoughts
- **Most Valuable Lesson Learned:** [Summarize your biggest takeaway]
- **What Could Be Improved in the Course?** [Your feedback]
- **Future Plans:** [How will you apply this knowledge?]