KEEPING STUDENTS SAFE: CYBER BULLING AND ONLINE BEHAVIOR By Mackenzie Hemmerling

ISSUES OF CONCERN

Teaching internet safety from a fear-based perspective

Schools can sustaining bullying

Rumors spread online Non-credible information Schools not teaching about

cyber-safety

IN GROUPS…

What do you as a teacher worry about most with student’s being online?

What topic do you feel is the hardest to teach to students about online behavior?

CYBER BULLYING

Bullying and harassment most often is done by peers

Social network sites are frequently used in peer-to-peer harassment

Those at risk often already have difficulties in other parts of their life

Kids can be anonymous Disinhibition – easier for

people to gang up and bully individuals when it is not face-to-face

IN GROUPS…

Share some examples of where you have seen cyber bullying or online harassment in your life.

What do you think are ways that you can help your students be safe online even when they are not in the classroom?

PROPER ONLINE BEHAVIOR

What we need to teach: Cyber bullying is

unacceptable and students who are bullied should not reply to those messages, but should show an adult

Why not to post personal information online

Intellectual property – illegal downloading and proper citing

IN GROUPS…

What are some other things you think are important that we need to teach students?

SOLUTIONS

This training will do little to significantly reduce bullying problems

We need to change the climate of the school and its exceptions for student behavior

Support parents and the school-family connection

We need to teach not only what’s wrong, but how to do what’s right

IN GROUPS…

What are some ways that the school environment could easily change to help support anti-bullying in the school and online?

“The best way to train ethical, responsible, and resilient

cybercitizens is to have ethical, responsible, and resilient teachers

who are comfortable navigating the digital world.”

Hancock, Randall, and Simpson in

From Safety to Literacy: Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century

SITES ON CYBER BULLYING AND ONLINE BEHAVIOR http://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/ http://cyberbullying.us/

http://safekids.com/mcafee_harris.pdf http://www.gctech.org/sites/gordoncooper/uploads/docum

ents/Appropriate_Online_Behavior.pdf

REFERENCES

Solomon, Gwen (2010). Keeping students safe online: What works. MWS, 1-13.