Ensuring Well-Being through Social-Emotional Learning in the Digital World

This document aims to identify the important elements addressed during the various TAGe discussions (social media discussion and live event) in addition to offering key recommendations for decision-makers. Concretely, this document has sought to highlight two social and emotional challenges faced today by youth, with a third issue present in each of them –

(1) educational and employment disparities (economic exclusion),

(2) poor civic engagement, and

(3) the impact of the digital divide and misuse of social media platforms

– in addition to showing how SEL competencies can be a tool to address the social and emotional challenges that may be encountered, supported by technological tools.