More than 250-students from 62 schools in Kolkata and its neighboring districts will learn about the social media and how does it impact our daily lives. All the schools are affiliated by ICSE.
The workshop will be conducted by a counselors and cyber experts who will scrutinize the positive and negative impact of the social media such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and online video games, including Blue Whale challenge in our daily lives.
"Every school was represented by three students - from 9th, 10th and 11th standards - and a teacher at yesterday's workshop and the response was very encouraging," Secretary of the Association of ICSE Schools in West Bengal Nabarun De told PTI.
Such interactions and workshops are necessary as smartphones now are a part of our lives and this goes for the school going children as well. Navneet Sharma, one of the attending teachers, said.
He further said 'The workshop also sensitised students about the deleterious effects of smart phone addiction on their education and extracurricular activities'.
"We have always encouraged students to involve themselves in sporting activities and asked all member schools to encourage their peers to participate in on-field games, necessary for all-round development of young ones," he said.