Meeting Minutes

The Social Media Awareness and Digital Citizenship Committee held its first meeting on October 22, 2024. Click here to view the meeting agenda. The goals of this meeting included:

• Introducing the Social Media Awareness and Digital Citizenship goals and timeline
• Investigating current, relevant research on the use of social media and technology in adolescents
• Identifying problems for the committee to solve and potential solutions
   

During the meeting: 

• Committee members participated in an Inclusion Activity focused on developing positive relationships at the table between our stakeholder groups and beginning to think about how students interact with their personal devices.
• Committee members agreed to our Working Agreements, in alignment with the same agreements shared at Barrington 220 meetings.
• The Advisory Committee leadership reviewed the presentation shared with the Board of Education on October 1, 2024.
• Each table group reviewed and shared insights into recent, relevant research ranging in scope from nation-wide to specific to Barrington 220.
• Each table participated in a Design Thinking Framework focused on three outcomes
  • First, a Empathy Map activity helped the group bring empathy to the challenges of using social media and technology as an adolescent.
  • Second, each group identified patterns in the Empathy Map that could be consolidated into problems the Advisory Committee wishes to solve.
  • Third, each group brainstormed and ranked possible solutions using an Eisenhower Matrix which measures Impact vs. Effort for each solution.
• The Advisory Committee leadership introduced the first two books that will serve as guiding documents for our work.
  • Growing Up in Public by Devorah Heitner
  • The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt 
• Every committee member was offered the opportunity to reflect and share feedback about the meeting.