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

2. 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

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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?

6. 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

7. IN GROUPS…  What are some other things you think are important that we need to teach students?

8. 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

9. IN GROUPS…  What are some ways that the school environment could easily change to help support anti-bullying in the school and online?

10. “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 21 st Century

11. SITES ON CYBER BULLYING AND ONLINE BEHAVIOR  http://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/ http://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/  http://cyberbullying.us/ http://cyberbullying.us/  http://safekids.com/mcafee_harris.pdf http://safekids.com/mcafee_harris.pdf  http://www.gctech.org/sites/gordoncooper/uploads/documents/Appropr iate_Online_Behavior.pdf http://www.gctech.org/sites/gordoncooper/uploads/documents/Appropr iate_Online_Behavior.pdf

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