CYBERBULLYING Josie Fraser Educational Technologist
Cyberbullying Presentation 2008
May 08, 2015
In the UK, a reported 22% of children and young people claim to have been the target of cyberbullying making this one of the most important new areas of behavior to understand and to equip schools, carers and young people with the ability to respond.
In 2007, Childnet was commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to produce advice and guidance for schools on preventing and responding to cyberbullying. Lead by Will Gardner and Josie Fraser, Childnet worked in close consultation with a wide range of sectors including children and young people, schools, industry, law enforcement, professional bodies, parent groups and child welfare organisations.
In 2007, Childnet was commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to produce advice and guidance for schools on preventing and responding to cyberbullying. Lead by Will Gardner and Josie Fraser, Childnet worked in close consultation with a wide range of sectors including children and young people, schools, industry, law enforcement, professional bodies, parent groups and child welfare organisations.
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CYBERBULLYING
Josie FraserEducational Technologist
Approaching Cyberbullying
Consultation methodology: Safe to Learn: embedding anti-bullying work in school
• Understanding how technology has changed
• Securing online safety through awareness and education
• Producing practical and accessible advice
Understanding Cyberbullying
What is Cyberbullying & how common is it?
“the use of information communications technology (ICT), particularly mobile phones and the internet, deliberately to upset someone else”
Introducing the Technology
• Mobile Phones
• IM and VoIP
• Chatrooms and message boards
• Webcams
• Social Networking sites
• Video-hosting sites
• Gaming sites, consoles and virtual worlds
Forms that Cyberbullying can take
• Threats and intimidation
• Harassment or stalking
• Vilification/defamation
• Ostracising/peer rejection/exclusion
• Identity theft, unauthorised access and impersonation
• Publicly posting, sending or forwarding personal or private information or images
• Manipulation - Tech Abuse in Teen Relationships
How is Cyberbullying Different?
• 24/7 and invasion of personal space
• Audience
• Anonymity
• Profile of bully and target
• Evidence
Preventing Cyberbullying
Taking a whole-school community approach:
• Understanding and talking about cyberbullying
• Updating Existing Policies and Practices
• Making reporting cyberbullying easier
• Promoting the positive use of technology
• Evaluating the impact of prevention activities
A whole-school community approach
• Shared understanding & definition
• Cyberbullying can affect everyone
• Coordinating responsibility
Understanding & talking about cyberbullying
• Promoting awareness, keeping bullying a live issue
• Publicising sanctions
• Providing information about out of school support
Updating existing policies and practices
• New technologies, new practices - for example video hosting sites - asking students!
• Logging incidents
• Acceptable use policies
Make reporting easier
• Review and publicise existing routes
• Explore new routes
• Signpost external routes
Promote the positive use of technology
• Importance of teachers awareness of good examples & can act as good role models
• - Or even better, can support their students in modeling good practice!
Evaluating the impact
• Surveying, student & parent satisfaction
• Celebrate success & innovation
Responding to Cyberbullying
• Cyberbullying is a form of bullying
• Support for the person being bullied
• Investigation
• Working with the bully and applying sanctions
Cyberbullying is a form of bullying
• Cyberbullying is about behavior and harm - primarily a disciplinary and pastoral issue
• Drawing on existing anti-bullying and behavioral policies
• Awareness of differences
Support for the person being bullied
• Emotional & cultural support
• Online empowerment
• Containing the incident
Investigation
• Preserve evidence
• Identifying the bully
Working with the bully and sanctions
• Appropriate and proportionate sanctions
• Unintentional cyberbullying
• Cyberbullying as retaliation
Resources
• The guidance
• Overview document
• Online campaign
• Cyberbullying film and teacher support materials
• Digizen
Digizen
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