The things we are doing as a district fall right in line with the suggestions made by Hinduja and Patchin (2015). We have had things like tip-lines and programs to raise awareness before. Now, we are taking even stronger approaches to work with everyone. The main thing we are doing is building the empathy of everyone in the community. Along with that, we aer working hard to instill the ethics of digital citinzenship within the context of citizenship as well. Throughout the whole school, these values are everywhere. We aer moving from it being a top-down, lecture situation. We are working to make it a part of the culture.
In our community, we have seen the effects that cyberbullying can have. On the surface, our students are generally nice and well-mannered. Unfortunately, our school is like most others and has mor than its share of cyberbullying problems (Cyberbullying statistics, n.d.). Just like other digital citizenship problems, it wasn’t caused by new technology. It was made possible through our own inaction, not staying up to date on how these technologies work, and using the convience that they bring to think that children were learning how to be safe on them through using them. As we’ve seen, that isn’t the case. Changing the course of cyberbullying is something that will require a lot of work and dedication by everyone. We can’t just wish it away or put up a poster and hope it stops. The solution lies in hard work by everyone and creating common understandings between us. From what I’ve read and seen, cyberbullying is not the root of the problem or the cause. It is a symptom of larger problems that we need to address. References Ansary, N., Elias, M., Greene, M., & Green, S. (2015) Best practices to address or reduce bullying in school. Kappan. 97(2), 30-35. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282305370_Best_practices_to_address_or_reduce_bullying_in_schools Cyberbullying statistics. (n.d.) Retrieved on September 15, 2019 from https://enough.org/stats_cyberbullying Hinduja, S. & Patchin, J. (2015). Developing a positive school climate: Top ten tips to prevent bullying and cyberbullying.Cyberbullying Research Center. Retrieved from https://cyberbullying.org/School-Climate-Top-Ten-Tips-To-Prevent-Cyberbullying.pdf
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