Transcript Cyber-Bullying - Hazleton Area School District

Today all students will:
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Define cyber bullying.
List examples of cyber
bullying.
Examine their online and cell
phone behavior to determine if
they cyber bully.
Discuss at least five steps to
take to keep from being cyber
bullied.
Bully Free
Freshman Class
Session 2
Lesson 7- What is Cyber-Bullying?
• You need to know how to handle a form of bullying called
“Cyber Bullying”
What is cyber bullying?
Cyber-Bullying: involves the use of information and
communication technologies such as, email, cell phone,
and text messages, instant messages, defamatory personal
web sites and defamatory online personal polling web
sites to support deliberate, repeated and hostile behavior
by an individual or group that is intended to harm others.
About Cyber-Bullying
• Cyber-Bullying is becoming more and more prevalent and many
states are passing laws that should stop many people from
engaging in this damaging and often unlawful behavior. These
behaviors include awful text messages that are sometimes
threatening and videos and pictures that are embarrassing and
humiliating.
• If someone has already been bullied and then cyber bullying
starts, it intensifies the hurtful feelings. With just a few strokes on
the computer keyboard, hurtful and destructive information can be
anonymously sent to or posted for viewing by thousands of
people. The bullied student feels like people around the world are
involved and there is no escape. Therefore, it can be more
destructive and hurtful than other forms of bullying.
When cyber bullying caps off years if bullying, some students become
depressed and suicidal. Some students have committed suicide after
being cyber bullied. Some decide to shoot individuals in their school.
Students, Please write on your worksheet the thoughts and feelings created by
cyber bulling. Then discuss them aloud.
Definition and Impact of Cyber Bullying
(handout)
Journal Entry #7
Students, write a paragraph about how it would feel to
be cyber bullied. If you wish, you can write about a
personal experience with cyber bullying or about the
experience of a friend that has been cyber bullied
Keep up-to-date online
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www.cyberbullying.ca
www.cyberbullying.org
www.cyberbullying.us
www.wiredsafety.org
www.ncpc.org
www.isafe.org
www.csriu.org
www.natfamilynews.org
www.safekids.com
www.cybertipline.com
Additional websites
• PostSecret – FUN to see others deal with similar issues
• Live Journal – express yourself with an online diary
• Diary Project – day to day experiences growing up
*All free to anonymously share secrets and get things off your
chest.
Lesson 8 - What Does Cyber
Bullying Look Like?
I want to continue our discussion of cyber bulling. Cyber
bullying comes in a variety of forms. Students are
discovering more and more creative ways to use technology
to hurt, threaten, embarrass, and humiliate people.
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The attacks can be direct or by proxy.
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Cyber bullying by proxy occurs when a cyber bully gets someone else to
do the bullying.
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Most of the time the proxy does not know that he is being used by the
cyber bully.
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This is the most dangerous form of cyber bullying because it can get
adults involved in the bullying who are unaware they are dealing with a
student.
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Sometimes cyber bullies attack by posing as the victim to create
problems for the true victim. For example, the student who bullies may
make it look as though the victim is doing something wrong; the parents
are then notified and the parents punish the victim.
Can you think of other ways people are cyber bullied?
What does cyber bullying look like?
(handout)
Fill in the blank lines on the worksheet with
additional example of cyber bullying.
Any volunteers?
Students who cyber bully often use:
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Blogs- Blogs provide users with the tools to publish personal content online about a range of topics,
such as hobbies, travel or work projects. People then connect their blogs with those of other people
with similar interests.
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Chat rooms – These are virtual meeting places. Most chat rooms can accommodate more than one
hundred users simultaneously.
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Discussion groups – Discussion groups are accessible via the Internet. Each group is categorized and
devoted to a single topic. Messages are posted in bulletin form and remain on a server, rather than
being e-mailed.
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E-mail – E-mail is a service that allows subscribers to pass messages from on e person to the other
through an Internet service provider.
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Instant Messaging (IM) – This is an online activity that allows two or more people to converse online.
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Message boards – These are online places where people with common interest go to talk about those
interests, such as sports teams, TV shows and online games.
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Short message service (Texting) – This is a service that allows text messages to be sent and received
via cell phones.
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Facebook and Twitter
Journal Entry#8
• Examine the examples of cyber
bullying on the handout and select
the one that would be most hurtful
or disturbing.
• Explain why.
Lesson 9:
Do You Cyber Bully?
• Read instructions on the following worksheet and
complete the form.
• NO ONE will see your responses and you may keep
this.
• If you have done any of the things on this sheet you
have engaged in cyber bullying behavior, which is a
form of school violence and may be unlawful.
• Please do what you can to prevent and stop cyber
bullying.
Journal Entry #9
Reflect on the lesson and write a
paragraph regarding your thoughts and
feelings.
Lesson 10:
How to Prevent and Stop Cyber
Bulling
We know:
• what it is
• what impact it has on an individual and on
our school
• what it looks like
• when we have engaged in cyber bullying
behavior
How to Prevent Cyber Bullying
• Protecting yourself from all cyber bullying may
be impossible but there are some steps you can
take to prevent much of it, reduce it and perhaps
even stop cyber bullying. (handout)
• On the blank lines, list other strategies that you
are aware of for preventing and stopping cyber
bullying.