Responding+to+cyberbullying

by [|Raisa Istomina] - Saturday, 22 October 2011, 07:06 PM ||
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2040/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Raisa Istomina" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2040&course=27"]] || My responses to cyberbullying
 * || Actually, it's a dangerous tendency to send nasty, threatening and anonymous messages, hack into someone else's account, and create fake profiles pretending to be someone else.

Why do people do that? How to avoid cyberbullying using "clever" devices (mobile phones, webcams, instant messengers, etc.)?

Adults (teachers and parents) should know in what way children are using their mobile phones and internet. Also they should report cyberbullying. All these ways can be effective if most of the users know about them and are able to provide proper safety. [|Reply] || by [|Angela Moninets] - Monday, 24 October 2011, 10:00 PM || So the boy looked pretty miserable, and it makes me feel dispirited when I think of those callous children, whose life is pretty much the same as that very boy's one. However, youngsters tend to be mean and vicious at times. So there must always be a n adult to spot the apprehension and take actions to elicit the effect. As teachers we might just keep good relationships with our students and establish a friendly rapport with them, so they can trust us and approach us with any difficulty they come across. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Tetyana Yarmysh] - Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 10:06 AM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Helen Onyshchenko] - Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 12:33 PM || I might be wrong, but I think that very few (if any) school authorities in Ukraine actually do this. Using learning technologies is still quite new to us, most schools are only making the first steps by equipping computer classrooms and educating the teachers so that they can make use of those classrooms. I think teachers of English are often pioneers in this field, we try to get our students to use Internet because it's the source of authentic materials, real language and communication. Thus, the e-safety and cyberbullying becomes our concern and responsibility, too. So, if I decide to take my students to any kind of computer or Internet learning environment where they can interact with each other and send messages or e-mails, I will need to make sure that my students don't start bullying each other using text messages or e-mails and that they know what to do if they face any kind of cyberbullying from any other entity in the cyber space. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Myroslava Loboiko] - Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 09:08 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Angela Moninets] - Thursday, 27 October 2011, 09:10 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] by [|Nataly Katsaran] - Friday, 28 October 2011, 09:10 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Natalia Kolotova] - Saturday, 29 October 2011, 11:27 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Irina Dygal] - Sunday, 30 October 2011, 06:58 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Sunday, 30 October 2011, 01:39 AM ||
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2027/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="teacher" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2027&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * || I have myself come across cyberbulling to a minor extent.They broke my page in one of the social networks and wrote nasty things on the wall. But I got through with it.
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2041/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Tetyana Yarmysh" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2041&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * || Although we do not have any specific concerns about cyberbullying in relation to our school, I think we should develop a school policy to promote awareness and understanding of this issue, as it is easier to prevent a disease than to treat it. It would be a good idea to use Anti-Cyberbulling Code made for UK schools and to include discussion of prejudice-driven bullying not only in lesson plans but in after- school activities as well. It is also very important to conduct information giving evenings for parents to teach them how to deal with this problem and first of all to make them aware that their kid may be not only a target of bullying but the one who is bullying.
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2029/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Helen Onyshchenko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2029&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * || I agree with Tetyana. If a school has a computer classroom connected to the Internet and the teachers use it for conducting lessons, the school should take a number of steps to guarantee e-safety to the students and avoid cyber bullying. This includes the anti-cyberbullying code, informing and discussing the issue with students and their parents, creating a friendly learning environment for students etc.
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2035/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Myroslava Loboiko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2035&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * || Watching the film, I was struck with the words the boy was saying – “I don’t really have anyone to talk to …” I understand his feelings. It’s terrible if something is wrong and you have nobody to tell it to. Like Angela I also was a target of cyberbulling and from my experience I know how harmful it can be. After registering in one of the social networks I was attacked with thousands of emails from porno sites to my email box. I went into hysterics though I was old and mature enough to be able to control myself. But I recovered fast after having blocked and changed my accounts. Now having such a bad experience I do my best to talk much to my children and explain them that there’s always a way out of any situation – just DON’T KEEP SILENT, SHARE YOUR PROBLEM, adults are able to help. On the other hand, adults (I mean parents and teachers) shouldn’t be indifferent.
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2027/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="teacher" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2027&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * I meant 'eliminate the effect' (late nights, sorry) ||
 * I meant 'eliminate the effect' (late nights, sorry) ||
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2038/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Nataly Katsaran" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2038&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2038/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Nataly Katsaran" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2038&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * || There is a proverb in Latin "Praemonitus praemunitus" that means "Who knows the danger can resist it". The best way to response is to know every i-net Minotaur. Firstly we should bring up the question about cyberbulling in the society as well as develope National I-net safety program including laws, restrictions, educational projects, etc. Secondly the rehabilitation centers for those who suffer from cyberbulling may be a real help for those who has nobody to speak about it. Perhaps some software will appear soon to excude the taking risk of getting nasty messages or calls ( the examples of viruses programs to protect your computers do work nowdays). And surely the educational programs especially for children will garantee in some degree their resilience to harmful bullying information.
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2036/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Natalia Kolotova" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2036&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * || What makes me upset is the fact that new and new opportunities for (cyber)bullying arise every day whereas opportunities for preventing this type of offence fall behind.I could never understand why people write viruses for computers but they thrive!!
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2030/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Irina Dygal" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2030&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * || I think people write virus programmes in a business purpose. And viruses are created by those who create antiviruses. They invent new and new viruses, send them to the Internet to be caught by our computers, than they create a programme which can nuetralize the virus activity and sell it. In such a way they earn money. It's not fair and very sad but it's the way some people make money.
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2042/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Vera Moiseenko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2042&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * || I was really shocked while watching the video. I'm even upset now...upset because of cruelty of our children. Some children can behave as monsters. I know...

I had the problems of bullying in my class (when my pupils were 5 and 6-formers) - my pupils are smart and they occurred to be quite imaginative to entertain themselves with bullying some weak pupils. Two years were really difficult (bad marks are not the problem for me but I can't stand any bullying) so I took all those problems too close to my heart (that's why I have health problems now as the result of that stressful situation and I even was going to leave school in summer just to take care about myself). I tried to do my best as a teacher, as a tutor and worked hard with my pupils and parents! And when I saw my girls kissing each other before the lessons in May (but a month before they cried that they hated each other) I was pleased.

As an example, my pupils bullied a boy with words and every day actions - they watered his jacket in winter when he had to get home in the very cold evening (-20') (for 30 minutes of walking). Then they threw a petard into him before lessons in the school yard which burst up on his neck near a carotid... They behaved as real small monsters. But now they behave as real classmates!

...But... we have 4 new pupils in my class this year and I fill the problem is near - they have chosen a new victim - a fat aggressive new boy. I wonder - if they remember our talks, lessons, if they can be so cruel now...

Nevertheless we haven't had the problem of cyberbullying in my class yet. I'm afraid if tell them about this problem it can be a kind of "teaching a new bad method of entertaining"!!!!

Dear colleagues, how do you think whether it's time now to start talking to them about cyberbullying (when I managed to stop bullying not so long ago!) or it's better to wait for the first problem of cyberbullying or till they become older)? (they are 7 formers now)

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by [|Kseniia Rozdolska] - Sunday, 30 October 2011, 12:25 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2033/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Kseniia Rozdolska" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2033&course=27"]] || Re: My responses to cyberbullying
 * || The problem is that it has to be not only the goal of the teachers, but also parents. To my mind we should start to speak about this and other problems with the parents at first, give them tests [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/wink.gif caption="wink"]], show the same videos. Because nowadays the teacher is not such an authority especially for secondary students. With primary children it's a little bit easier. I think that with the help of this film we can teach and support our students. Some of them will understand it and that's a great deal!