Week 1
How can SEL be integrated in digital engagement to improve wellbeing?
Join the discussionEnsuring Well Being through SEL in the Digital World
UNESCO MGIEP's first issue of NOPED revealed that 92% of comments from youth on the issue of transition to online learning were negative in nature, showing emotional tones of sadness and fear. Keywords like stress, irritating, overwhelming, anxious, confused, harsh, missing out were common occurrences in these comments. The most common phrases used were – hard time concentrating, no motivation, boring, missing friends. While further tonal and sentiment analysis is possible for other aspects of engagement in the digital world, the data on online learning and social media is symbolic enough to raise red flags on how we can make digital engagement more beneficial to the youth, its learning experience and wellbeing.
Find out more about TAGᵉSenior Decision Makers
Joysy John
UK
Joysy John is the Strategy and Transformation Director at Trinity College London. Previously, she was the CEO of 01 Founders, the Director of Education at Nesta and CIO of Ada, the National College for Digital Skills. She was appointed by the UK Department of Education to the Edtech Leadership Group and by the Welsh Government to the expert panel on Schooling Reimagined. Holding a Computer Engineering (Honours) degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and an MBA with Distinction from London Business School, she was the Financial Times top 100 BAME leaders influencing UK tech and Finalist for Woman of the Year at the 16th Asian Achievers Award.
Jose-Luis Alvarez-Galvan
Head of Policy, UNESCO MGIEP
Jose-Luis has extensive work and research experience in different areas of public policy. The last eleven years of his professional career have been dedicated to support countries in education policy reform to tackling inequality in their systems (first at the OECD then at UNESCO). He holds a PhD from the LSE, an MA from the University of Massachusetts and a BA degree in Economics from the National University of Mexico (UNAM).
Gwang-Chol Chang
Chief of Education Policy Section at UNESCO HQ
Mr Gwang-Chol Chang is currently the Chief of Education Policy Section at UNESCO Headquarters since June 2019. Before that, he worked as Senior Program Specialist, Chief of Education Section at the UNESCO Regional Office in Dakar since February 2016 and coordinated all education programs of the Office. Prior to joining Dakar Office, he was Senior Program Specialist at UNESCO Bangkok (Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education), where he led UNESCO’s regional education programs on sector policy, technical and vocational education and training, quality of education and education research and foresight.
Selected Youth Participants
Claire-Marie Beyet
France
Claire-Marie is a graduate in Human Rights with over 3 years of experience in project development and humanitarian Law. She currently works for the Youth Inclusion Network in India, a network of companies supporting excluded youth in achieving decent employment.
Victoria Onuoha
Nigeria
She is a User Experience Designer at Alarrt and serves as a programs lead at Internet Safe Kids Africa- an NGO helping children stay safe online, and equipping individuals to use media and tech responsibly. She is passionate about using tech for good, designing human-centered products and volunteering.
Hameeda Syed
India
Hameeda Syed is a freelance journalist and gender consultant. She is currently associated with Girl Up India. She is the co-founder of Dignity in Difference, a youth-led organisation to address and document online hate speech in South Asia.
Rafie Malik
India
Rafie is a teacher by profession working with the Department of Education, J&K. He has over 7 years of experience in training, learning & development, project management and HR. Rafi is an advocate of self-awareness and social awareness skills and actively participates in programmes to enhance emotional resilience.
Shreya Tiwari (Moderator)
Associate Project Officer Digital Pedagogy - Teacher Training
Shreya is a Curriculum Designer and an Educational Researcher with a specialisation on Innovative pedagogy for Learning for the 21st Century. Over the last 16 years, she has specialised in Teacher Education and School Leadership with a policy & practice perspective. Her experience spans from being a Facilitator, Teacher Educator, Curriculum Developer and leading large-scale Remote Learning curriculum implementation across 8 states of India.
