GEMS Wellington Academy Hosts World Economic Forums Young Global Leader
Students from grade 5 and above at GEMS Wellington Academy, Al Khail recently welcomed Dr Yuhyun Park - Head of iZ HERO digital citizenship initiative for children. She discussed digital citizenship and the obligations and difficulties that featured the potential provided by the digital media offered today.
Resolving the problem of cyberbullying, Dr Park stressed that whatever one performs in the online world leaves an impact and advised students not to place anything on social media that they may later involve be sorry for. She shared effective statistics to back up her message of the potential risks of the internet.
Dr Park also took questions from the students consisting of "just what is cyberbullying?" and the difference in between cyberbullying and other sorts of bullying. She likewise explained why cyberbullying could be specifically harmful as it can follow you anywhere and offered useful guidance to the trainees to obstruct unwanted call or conserve any type of web content which is indicated to be harmful.
Colin Callaghan, Principal, GEMS Wellington School, Al Khail gave thanks to Dr. Park for enhancing the school's messages regarding safe use of the internet and claimed: "We are commonly told that pupils are extremely 'tech savvy', however whilst they typically recognize how to utilize and accessibility social networks and the internet, my experience is that they do not always completely understand the potential risks. I have had some excellent comments from trainees that valued having someone of Dr Parks' standing to provide such a strong message.
"This isn't just a school problem but a global one for which each student have to take individual duty", he included.
Yuhyun Park is the founder DQ Institute, Singapore-- a think tank committed to enhance digital education, society and innovation via cross-sector collaboration and big information research. As a social business owner and researcher, she founded infollution ZERO-- a charitable organization in Korea that is concentrated on elevating public recognition of information air pollution such as cyberbullying and innovation addiction and shaping public law on internet safety and education. She is an Eisenhower Other and an Ashoka Fellow. She is also a World Economic Forum Youthful Global Leader and member of the Guiding Committee of the World Economic Forums project Forming the Future Effects of Digital Media for Society.
