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Are You a #Bully?

Emily SimonMichelle Hutchison

Christi Reed Western Illinois University

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PurposeWe designed our video to generate discussion for our community. After connecting with their previous experiences and understanding of what bullying is, we will then challenge students to consider the ways in which they have used social media to bully others.

Students will:

Recognize how words and images on social media have the same effect as traditional bullying

Identify ways in which they have been involved with social media bullying

Engage in discussion of how we can build our community rather than tear it down

+Bullying: It’s not just for kids!

Concrete Examples

Reflection with the question, “Am I a bully?”

Practice with a call for action

Abstract thinking, “ Have I done these

things?”

How to get college students to rethink their actions?

Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle

+Recent Issues on our Campus

Pictures of people passed out on Snapchat

Passive-Aggressive posts on Facebook

Racial comments on Yik Yak

Anonymous nude photos of others on Fade

+Discussion Questions

How does bullying affect our community?

How do you see social media bullying connected to the bullying that kids do?

How does being anonymous on certain medias affect us?

Why do we bully? What are we hoping to get out of it?

Have you ever been bullied? If so, how did that feel?

What can we do as a community to stop bullying?

+References

Kolb, D. A. (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development (Vol. 1).

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.