Cyberbullying

Kelsey Tillery Due: February 20, 2012

Cyber bullying After looking at all the resources about cyber bullying it has made me think about how much stuff like this goes on and you don’t realize it. Cyber bullying is such a hurting thing that could make certain people think about taking their life. The resource that was most helpful for me as an educator was the top ten tips for educators about cyber bullying. Having a survey at the school about bullying is a good idea but I truthfully think that a lot of students who are being bullied would not put the honest answer down because of the fear of someone reading the survey. This could be beneficial but then again a lot of the surveys at schools are anonymous. As an educator I would talk to my students about cyber bullying and all the ways you could be bullied. I would tell my students that yeah you may think this is funny but it will not be funny when it actually happens to you.  Topics like these students do not take serious but I still want to inform them the consequences and the actions that would be taken if they were caught in the act of cyber bullying. I would ask the students how you would feel if you were made fun of your sexuality. It would not feel good and your self-esteem would be low. Making a fake e-mail and sending love letters is extreme and could scar James for a long time. I would tell the boys to put yourself in James position and make them tell me how they would feel if that was them it was happening to. If they have time to make a fake e-mail then they can suffer big consequences. As an educator I would post signs and have guest speakers come in and share to my students how serious this could be. If the boys who did this to James would hear about all the stories the guest speaker had then maybe they would realize how wrong and hurting they did to James. I would suggest to James to maybe see a school counselor and talk about his feelings so they are not held back and so he ends up not taking actions that result in a bad ending. Now knowing that bullying and cyber bullying goes on more than I thought it did I want to keep my future students safe and educated about bullying and cyber bullying. I would make sure my students are informed and know that it is ok to talk to someone about what is going on in their life. I would have an open door policy and would be open to talk about whatever my students needed to talk about in their everyday lives.

1) This is cyber bullying 2) I did not think about how much cyber bullying actually goes on until you research it. I learned so much about how people actually cyber bully like fake emails and sending love letters. 3) I will use this in my teaching by letting my students be aware of what goes on in the cyber bullying world. Letting them know the consequences and and also how much they would get in trouble if they actually did something like this to a person or persons.