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Comment by Tim Winkelmans on February 17, 2012 at 10:19

Posted to events:

When Cyberbullying Spills Into School

This event takes place on Thursday, February 23, 2012, 11am to noon.
Much of students’ social lives outside of school these days takes place online, through social networking sites. And even though this form of bullying may happen most often after school hours, the impact from online conflicts and negative comments in cyberspace can directly affect a student’s in-school life, including the ability to learn. While cyberbullying is receiving more attention and media coverage these days, school leaders and educators still have few clear-cut guidelines on how to handle it. Should they be monitoring sites like Facebook to police student behavior? Can principals and administrators take disciplinary action against students who misbehave online? When does a cyberbullying situation require school intervention? And how can school leaders create a school culture where bullying is unacceptable among students both in school and online? During this webinar, two nationally-recognized experts on bullying will help educators address these questions and develop strategies for combating bullying and its impact both in schools and online.

Comment by Tim Winkelmans on January 9, 2012 at 14:44

Pew Research recently published a new research report.  "Teens, Kindness, and Cruelty on Social Network Sites:  How American Teens Navigate the New World of Digital Citizenship"  http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2011/PIP_Teens_Kindne...f

Comment by Tim Winkelmans on October 31, 2011 at 12:15

EdWeek's Digital Education Blog posted an item about the perils and virtues of anonymity and other ideas to address cyberbullying.  Link to the article:

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2011/10/cyberbullyi...

Comment by Tim Winkelmans on July 25, 2011 at 15:03

Earlier this year, FaceBook launched a Family Safety Centre Page at http://www.facebook.com/safety.  There is also a "Social Report Tool" to deal with bullying incidents: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=196124227075034

Comment by Tim Winkelmans on June 17, 2011 at 15:23

ERAC has licenced the Media Awareness Network My World resource.

This Media Awareness Network in-class digital literacy
resource MyWorld is available to all Grade 8 - 12 teachers in
school districts and schools in British Columbia that are
members of the Educational Resource Acquisition
Consortium (ERAC) through a licence agreement with ERAC.
For more information contact your district’s ERAC representative:
visit www.bcerac.ca, click About and then ERAC District
Contacts. Staff and students of ERAC-member districts and schools
can also access this resource via http://learnnowbc.ca/services/DigitalDB/myworld.aspx.

 

This interactive tutorial teaches students key digital literacy skills through a series of four thematically related chapters. MyWorld reflects teens' online experiences by providing a simulated online environment where students can move between search engines, social networking sites, instant messaging and other sites and services.

Each chapter provides a variety of tasks – some school-related, some personal – that teach students essential Internet literacy skills such as finding and authenticating online information, managing one's privacy and reputation online, handling online relationships and behaving ethically online.

Comment by Carrie Froese on April 11, 2011 at 17:04

Scholastic is now marketing a "safe" social networking site that you can introduce your class to.  Any plans in the works via Learn Now BC by any chance?

 

Comment by Tim Winkelmans on April 7, 2011 at 9:20

New article from EdWeek about how Formspring.me has become a new battleground for cyber-bullying.  I hadn't even known the service existed, but it's worth reading to see how the anonymity feature is being abused

http://bit.ly/g2BdoA

Comment by Glenn Moses on December 7, 2010 at 8:29

Tim - Thanks for sharing the As Bullies Go Digital, Parents Play Catch-Up article. I thought it was informative and helps stress the role that school administration should play even if they have been reluctant in the past.

Comment by Tim Winkelmans on December 6, 2010 at 13:45

The recent NYT article is the second in a series. The first is at http://nyti.ms/h3Hbso "Online Bullies Pull School into the Fray" from June 27

Comment by Tim Winkelmans on December 6, 2010 at 12:07

New York Times article: As Bullies Go Digital, Parents Play Catch-Up
(you may need to go through the NYT free registration process)

http://nyti.ms/fUflUS

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