Teach online safety in classrooms, children must be aware of social media impacts: Experts

Children should be taught in school how to navigate their lives on social media, especially at a time when the virtual world feels more real to them than the physical space around them, according to a panel which discussed abuse is no longer limited to physical forms alone.

Violence has shifted to a great extent from physical to digital space, said psychotherapist and school counsellor Farishta Dastur Mukerji.