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Social Media and Communications
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Social Media and Communications
Board Propsal
Overview
Social Media has grown more important in the last several years, especially following the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Policy regarding social media and communications within schools must change to reflect its growing importance.
Overview
Purpose of Social Media
- What can we use social media for?
- Guidelines to protect teachers and students.
Purpose
Uses
- Update community on activies at the school.
-Promote school clubs and sports teams.
-A readily avaliable point of access to communicate with building principals and school counselor for students and parents.
Uses
Guidelines
- Administrator must have access to all portions of social media sites related to school clubs and activies.
- Any applications used to communicate with students must have an administrator linked as a administrator on the application.
- Teachers and students should not be friends on social media, except for situations where student is a relative of the teacher.
-School related social media sites must only post subjects that involve the school and school appropriate. Any comment sections must be turned off.
-Students should not have access to teachers' phone numbers.
Social Media's Effect on Student Health
- Social media has been linked to eating disorders, depression, and anxitety in adolscents.
- Social media's role in the development of the adolscents' brain is more prevalent every year.
- More and more incidents that occur between middle and high school students occur on social media than at school.
Effects
Chart
Monroe, J. (2021, July 14). The effect of social media on teenagers. Newport Academy; Newport Academy. https://www.newportacademy.com/resources/well-being/effect-of-social-media-on-teenagers/
Solutions
Timeline
- Increase education for students on proper social media usage, cyberbulling, and the effects of social media on mental health.
-Postive social media posts highlighting student actions from school social media pages to help boost student self esteem.
Updates to Board Policy
Updates
- Update board policy to reflect changes to school social media usage.
- Inform staff and community of changes to the board policy on school social media usage.
- Impliment digital citizenship lessons into K through 12 classrooms to inform students of how to use social media and the internet, the pitfalls of social media, and how to overcome the effects of social media on the adolscent brain.
Credits
Title
Monroe, J. (2021, July 14). The effect of social media on teenagers. Newport Academy; Newport Academy. https://www.newportacademy.com/resources/well-being/effect-of-social-media-on-teenagers/
Christine Greenhow, et al. Education and Social Media : Toward a Digital Future. The MIT
Press, 2016. EBSCOhost
Victoria Goodyear, and Kathleen Armour. Young People, Social Media and Health. Routledge,
2019. EBSCOhost,
Gleason, B., & von Gillern, S. (2022, December 4). Digital Citizenship with Social Media:
Participatory Practices of Teaching and Learning in Secondary Education. Oclc.org.
https://eds-s-ebscohost-com.wwu.idm.oclc.org/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=8&sid=4b8
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