September 2017: Listening, Learning and Co-creating Solutions: A New Approach to Online Safety

This was an article I wrote for the Education Business Online Magazine: Listening, Learning and Co-creating Solutions: A New Approach to Online Safety

http://www.educationbusinessuk.net/magazines/education-business-2207

30th of Jan 2017: WISE KIDS Children, Young People and Online Media Summit - Promoting Digital Competence, Digital Citizenship and Wellbeing

Sangeet organised and hosted a WISE KIDS Summit on Children, Young People & Online Media which brought together key stakeholders and experts in online community, education, psychology, mental health and industry to share evidence, ideas and good practice to promote Children and Young People’s Digital Competence, Digital Citizenship and Wellbeing. It was attended by more than 200 stakeholders. Key amongst them was young people who presented in the programme and participated throughout the day.

6th of Jan 2016: ITV News Report about Parent's Managing Children's Use of Devices

This news piece was in response to research released by Action for Children which suggested that Parents were struggling to get their children off devices. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35240763


Wise Kids 6th January 2016 from ITV Wales on Vimeo.

20th of July 2015: Working with MOE Staff in Singapore

“@sangeet: Working with the fab ETOS from @MOEsg on our Digital Leader SC programme pic.twitter.com/6oZLvT9gP9” #sc-delp #edsg

— WISE KIDS (@wisekids) July 20, 2015

On ITV Wales discussing Balanced Use of ICT #GadgetFreeDay

Carl Edwards from ITV Wales discusses Internet Addiction and Balanced use of ICT with Dr Sangeet Bhullar from WISE KIDS and Professor Phil Reed from Swansea University. See:
http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2015-06... for more information.

Sangeet was delighted to speak on an International Panel session at the International Cyberbullying Summit, which was held over 2 days on the 7th and 9th of May, in Limerick, and at Facebook’s headquarters in Dublin respectively. This summit was organised by Parry Aftab, a leading lawyer from the US and pioneer in online safety, as well as founder of Wired Safety. The event featured high profile speakers such as Carol Todd (mother of Amanda Todd), Barbara Coloroso and Bill Shillings. The event also featured industry speakers from Google, Facebook, Ask.fm. Most importantly, it involved more than 200 young people from schools in Ireland, who were closely involved in all the activities, and who were simply amazing. The event was sponsored by Facebook and Google.

 

 

Youth Forum and Regional Conference on Child Online Protection

23rd March 2015- Children for a Better Digital World Forum, and 24th and 25th of March - Regional Conference on Child Online Protection, Putrajaya, Malaysia

Sangeet Bhullar from WISE KIDS; Kate Pawelczyk from Voices of Youth, UNICEF; Sandra Cortesi from Youth & Media, Harvard Berkman Centre for Internet & Society and Amanda Third from University of Western Sydney co-facilitated a Youth Forum workshop with a group of young people from Malaysia entitled - 'Children for a Better Digital World'.

The aim of the youth forum was to work with a group of young people in Malaysia, and to understand their online experiences and to work with them to highlight key issues that affected them, which they wanted government and other stakeholders to address, in relation to positive and safe Internet use.

These views were then presented to the Malaysian government and other stakeholders at the 'Regional Conference for Child Online Protection, organised by The Ministry for Women, Children and Community, MCMC and Unicef Malaysia - in a youth panel session with 6 youth, which was chaired by Sangeet

 

10th of Feb 2015: Safer Internet Day - sharing our Research Launch Highlights

22nd of October 2014

@sangeet on @ITVWales this pm on launch of great @eSafety_Wales 360SafeCymru tool & #digitalliteracy resources pic.twitter.com/dnFr31V5YX

— WISE KIDS (@wisekids) October 22, 2014

Launch of our Digital Leader in Education Programme

Sangeet is delighted to launch the first WISE KIDS 'Digital Leaders in Education' programme in collaboration with Caerphilly Council. The programme, with 12 secondary school teachers and 1 psychologist participating, aims to upskill, train and support teachers to become ‘Digital Leaders in Education’ – able to lead and support their schools to use the Internet and digital technologies critically and creatively for effective teaching and learning; embed digital literacy across subjects; and create a ‘culture of digital citizenship’ and well-being in their schools.


To view the training blog see: http://digleadersinedu.blogspot.co.uk/

9th of June 2014: WISE KIDS presenting at Digital Wales 2014

Sangeet delivering a presentation at the Digital Wales 2014 Day 1: Youth and Skills themed event, of the 2 day Digital Wales 2014. The presentation provided some initial insights from a research programme undertaken by WISE KIDS (in partnership with the Children’s Commissioner for Wales, Logicalis and S4C) between December 2013 and May 2014 which explores the digital media habits and digital literacy of Year 9 pupils in Wales.

International Women's Day - Big Girls Blog Brunch - 7th of March, 2014 Pencoed, Bridgend, Wales #bgbb14

Picture of @mindhiver taken by @RightmoveAddict & shared on Twitter

It was wonderful to be re-united with a wonderful group of women @mindhiver, @SAW_HQ, @HelReynolds, @JulietFay @LauraEmilyD @RightmoveAddict amongst many others - following on from last year's 'Mostly Women Doing Digital Event' -Feb 25th 2013.

Today's event was titled the 'Big Girls Blog Brunch' (Twitter Hashtag #bgbb14), and it was supported by the lovely folk from @SAW_USW. A great morning choc full of insights and expert knowledge and sharing. But also warmth and informality - there was a buzz, and it was wonderful to have a few hours to sit, learn and reflect on how we blog, share our expertise and knowledge online.

The following was my brief presentation. Do get in contact if I can help in any way.

 Thank you too for the kind tweets :)

@sangeet excellent talk and an inspiring woman Wise Kids #bgbb14
— Claire Hooper (@c_hooper1) March 7, 2014

#bgbb14 @lauraemilyd @girlontheriver @sangeet very inspired by your talks. Lovely meeting you & many thanks for sharing with us today #IWD14
— SoftwareAllianceUSW (@SAW_USW) March 7, 2014

See the following for a throwback to last year's 'Mostly Women Doing Digital Event' -Feb 25th 2013 :)
http://mostlywomendoingdigital.blogspot.co.uk/
http://cardiffusers.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/mostly-women-doing-digital/
http://www.onlinesalesmessages.com/reflections-on-mostly-women-doing-digital/
http://learnermother.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/on-mostly-women-doing-digital/

Feb 21st 2014: Leading a WISE KIDS workshop in Geneva for ITU-COP (Child Online Protection) Partners

Prior to Feb 20th 2014, I had never been to Geneva, so I was doubly pleased to have been invited on behalf of WISE KIDS to deliver an interactive workshop for ITU-COP (Child Online Protection) Partners from all around the world. To find put more, have a look at the blog created for the training session which captured many of the insights gained from participants as well as their next steps.

11/2/2014 Safer Internet Day #SID2014: A WISE KIDS workshop on behalf of Welsh Government for Swansea Deaf Young People & Youth Workers

A story in Tweets - full blog site coming soon.

Working with deaf young people in Swansea deliberating on what is good about the Internet #SID2014 cc @DEFFO_Cymru pic.twitter.com/Y0xtsS9rXu
— Sangeet Bhullar (@sangeet) February 11, 2014

Deaf youth workers in Swansea discussing the Internet and its role in youth work #SID2014 pic.twitter.com/qaBiK07dJy
— Sangeet Bhullar (@sangeet) February 11, 2014

Fab trainer @wisekids pic.twitter.com/i12eWEDmke
— DEFFO! (@DEFFO_Cymru) February 12, 2014

@RobinsTalbot @DEFFO_Cymru @wisekids I did and everyone did, excellent trainer and a great informative course..Look forward working together
— cathie r-talbot (@Cathiet79) February 13, 2014

Two new films with BBC Webwise - Feb 11th 2014 #SID2014

I have been delighted to work with the lovely people from the BBC Learning team like recently on 2 films for BBC Webwise for Parents which were launched for Safer Internet Day 2014 on Feb 11th 2014.

Parenting Online: Know Your Child

and Parenting online: controls, locks and chat

This is a tweet from the filming (which was with the lovely @gpeakall):

Just finished working with the fab BBC learning film crew and a family in Liverpool today. pic.twitter.com/0qhOPAIyiR
— Sangeet Bhullar (@sangeet) December 21, 2013