London’s preparing for back to school [Video]

The Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB) held its annual leaders’ meeting on Tuesday at RBC Place London. The meeting gives vice-principals, principals, and board managers a chance to focus on critical issues for the upcoming school year.

The keynote speaker was Mark Daley, Western University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. Changes in technology, and an understanding of the impacts of those changes, have resulted in a number of new school policies.

TVDSB Education Director Mark Fisher said the board is taking a new approach to social media, “We have eliminated access on a lot of board-generated devices to a lot of platforms like TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram; things that we know can have really detrimental effects to kids if they’re used too often.”

Fisher told CTV News access to cellphones and other devices is also being limited for some students, “Students in K (kindergarten) to [Grade] six, we’re really going to …