Doha: Neelanjana Grover, a certified trainer and a training consultant from Mumbai conducted a 90-minute webinar workshop for parents and teachers on the platform of Indian Cultural Centre affiliated to Embassy of India. Over 90 parents and teachers in Qatar attended a highly informative webinar, which ended with intensive and fruitful interaction between the attendees and the speaker.
As education has moved to online learning and due to the stay at home, the children are spending more time in the virtual world than ever before raising concerns about their digital wellbeing.
The Workshop provided new evidence-based tips and tools on ways to manage and keep the children safe. Parents and teachers were briefed on ways to guide and ensure the children to be healthy netizens. The workshop also addressed compelling questions regarding the media and its impact on children's development and teach parents to further help children be safe in this vast world of the internet and technology.
The speaker elaborated on the screen time and conversations around it for all age groups - tiny tots, tweens, and emerging adults highlighting ways to deal with issues like grooming, abuse and addiction, and false identities. With the entire world opting for a virtual world under COVID 19 situation, the screen times and duration can no longer be fixed hence the challenges have to be looked at holistically including the child, the content, and the context.
Neelanjana has been working in the field of child development and child safety for the last 20 years. She is an educator and advocate for the wellbeing and safety of children and emerging adults. She has worked with individuals and groups, schools, and communities at various projects regarding sexuality education, prevention of child sex abuse, and online & media impact.
ICC President Manikantan AP welcomed the attendees and assured everybody of conducting such fruitful workshops frequently. Rajesh Singh, the Head of Finance for ICC was the host for the event and proposed a vote of thanks at the End. Cultural Coordinator Nirmala Shanmuga Pandian was the Master of Ceremonies for the Webinar by the Indian Cultural Centre.
