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reConnect Morton
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Our Mission
Welcome to reConnect Morton, Illinois! reConnect Morton is a community-driven group of parents, educators, and local partners dedicated to promoting play-based childhood experiences and reducing screen dependence. Through education, accessible resources, and community collaboration, we support healthy development and meaningful connection for children and families. We advocate for tech-intentional policies in our schools and community. Local child-friendly events, book clubs, screen-free activities and more will be shared here! Families who took the Wait Until 8th pledge in Morton are encouraged to join this non-social media platform in order to connect with other families in our community concerned about smartphone and social media use in childhood. Have questions? Email reConnect.Morton@gmail.com
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🚨 Action item: Email MCUSD asking to address the "unacceptable risk" that Google AI poses to students.
Please read the action alert and email the letter below to our district. Until Google allows the AI search feature to be turned off, it is unsafe for all children to use.
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Call For Five-Year Pause on Gen AI in Schools
As generative AI tools are rapidly expanding in schools, often based on their hypothetical “potential” to enhance learning, these products are posing risks to children’s development, mental health, privacy, and overall educational experience. Research has shown that generative AI products can undermine children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development. Some schools have introduced these products to students without parental consent, threatening the integrity of learning and student privacy. Call For Five-Year Pause The widespread rollout of generative AI products into schools without oversight, community input, or evaluation of implications is not inevitable. A five-year pause on all products using generative AI that impact children in preK-12 schools would allow time for school communities, including students, educators, administrators, and parents, to learn about the implications and uses of generative AI products in education, to ask questions, and to provide feedback. This pause would also allow state, provincial, and local legislatures and boards of education, and state, provincial, and federal regulators to establish clear safeguards to protect student privacy, audits, and vetting processes for current and future generative AI. Join the growing coalition of over 260 organizations and experts calling for a 5-year pause on generative AI in schools! Read the full position statement at www.bit.ly/pausegenAI. Add your name today and stand with us in putting the best interests of children first.
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reConnect Morton Declaration of Digital Independence
This is more than a pact. It’s a growing movement to reclaim childhood. By signing this declaration, you’re joining a community of parents committed to protecting childhood by delaying or forgoing smartphones* and social media for their children and by prioritizing in-real-life experiences and human connection over screens. Each signature sends a powerful message: Together, we’re changing the norm. Each year, we’ll ask you to pause, reflect, and recommit, because raising healthy, resilient kids is a journey. Signing this declaration is about connection, not competition. It’s an invitation to walk this path together, supporting each other along the way.
We are a collective of communities and organizations catalyzing local change through collective action. Discover and join communities working together to protect childhood in the digital age. Taking collective action has never been easier.