Tech Shock - from Parent Zone
Tech Shock: everything you ever wanted to know about tech and family life. Podcasting from Parent Zone, the media literacy experts, host Vicki Shotbolt explores the upsides and downsides of family life in the digital age. With a range of expert guests, she looks at online harms to children, from pornography to gambling, and at what should be done about them. Incurably optimistic, Vicki also celebrates the many benefits of tech for children and young people, as she considers how best to live in a world in which family life is now inescapably digital. Listen every Monday, subscribe, and please give us a five star review.
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone
Episode 4: Lisa Felton and Jeffrey DeMarco: A Partnership for Thriving
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In the fourth episode of Tech Shock's 12th season, Vicki is joined by two guests: Jeffrey DeMarco, Senior Policy Advisor at Save the Children, and Lisa Felton, Managing Director, Vodafone Foundation. Their organisation’s partnership was born from a shared recognition that children were highly connected but not necessarily thriving and that the support available to them simply hadn't kept pace with the digital world they were growing up in.
This episode is grounded in research, practical programmes and a genuinely positive vision for children's digital lives. With the government consultation now closed, the conversation moves beyond the ban debate. Instead it asks what a whole-system approach to children's online safety and wellbeing actually looks like and what it will take to get there.
Talking points:
- What does the research from Save the Children and Vodafone Foundation reveal about the gap between children's digital skills and their digital wellbeing and what does it actually mean to thrive online?
- How does the SMILE framework and Skills Upload Junior programme build resilience and digital wellbeing in children across eight countries and what does rights-based design look like in practice?
- Beyond the ban debate, what does a whole-system approach to children's online safety look like and what role do parents, educators, platforms and policymakers each need to play?
Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on social media for all the latest on our work on helping families to thrive in the digital age. Presented by Vicki Shotbolt. Tech Shock is produced and edited by Tim Malster.
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