SEL in Digital Environments
The academic, physical, and mental health benefits of in-person schooling are difficult to replicate through online instruction. Technology enables students to practice interpersonal skills before applying them in the real world. It can provide powerful scaffolded learning opportunities to support children’s development. (Murphy, Cook and Fallo, 2021).
Virtual learning requires students to draw from a different skill set than what is used in face-to-face settings, such as self-regulation for navigating online learning, or balancing learning and life at home. Integrating Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in daily lessons can benefit children now working in virtual settings, with sample activities organized around cognitive regulation, emotional regulation, and social skills.(Kamei, Harriott, 2020).
SEL Learning Modules
“There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character.”
― Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
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I am an educator and mental health advocate. This site supports the promotion and implementation of best practices for social and emotional learning (SEL).
I am the current Technology Director of Pride Academy Charter School, serving middle school students in grades 5-8. I have over 10 years of experience in education, with specific interests in special education and instructional technologies. I am also a student in the Leadership in Educational Technologies Doctoral Program at NJCU.
References
Campos, D.V. (2021, Aug-2). Promote sel and digital citizenship with these casel-aligned quick activities. Elementary School Activities to Promote SEL in Digital Life. Common Sense Education. https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/elementary-school-activities-to-promote-sel-in-digital-life
CASEL, (2019). Social and emotional learning 3 signature practices playbook 2019: A tool that supports systemic social and emotional learning. Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. https://schoolguide.casel.org/uploads/2018/12/CASEL_SEL-3-Signature-Practices-Playbook-V3.pdf
CASEL, (2021). Fundamentals of sel. Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/
Eva, A. (2019). Making sel more relevant to teens: three social and emotional learning activities that are designed to address high school students’ need for status respect. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/making-sel-more-relevant-teens
Greater Good in Education. (2019). SEL for adults: SEL-awareness and self-management. https://ggie.berkeley.edu/my-well-being/sel-for-adults-self-awareness-and-self-management/#tab__2
Harriott, W., & Kamei, A. (2021). Social emotional learning in virtual settings: intervention strategies. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 13(3), 365–371. https://doi.org/10.26822/iejee.2021.196
Hauge, C. (2020). Agency with virtual learning: prioritizing children's social emotional health in the pandemic. Childhood Education, 96(6).
Murphy, K. M., Cook, A. L., & Fallon, L. M. (2021). Mixed reality simulations for social-emotional learning. Phi Delta Kappan, 102(6).
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