digital citizens: it takes a village
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Want to increase safe, ethical and responsible use of technology in your school and community? Discover free, Common-Core-aligned resources to promote digital citizenship. Purpose & objective Educators will develop awareness by… • protecting private information • respecting themselves and others • staying safe online • standing up to cyberbullying • balancing the time online and offline Outline: • The importance of teaching digital citizenship in our schools to our teachers and students. • The necessity of getting parents involved in the teaching, modeling, and monitoring of safe, responsible, and ethical technology use. • Digital Citizenship resources for parents, teachers, and students using sites such as Common Sense Media - www.commonsensemedia.org and other nationally recognized work. • After the session, educators will continue to collaborate through social media to share resources, strategies, and best practices. Standards addressed: All resources and lessons provided in the session will be linked to Common Core State Standards.TRANSCRIPT
Digital Citizenship
It Takes YOU and a Village
Martin Ricardo Cisneros @TheTechProfe
What is Going On?
Every day, you see how cyberbullying hurts students, disrupts classrooms, and impacts your school's culture. So how should you handle it? What are the right things to do and say? What can you do today that will help your students avoid this pitfall of our digital world?
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
What is our outcome?What is in the World of Cyberbullying? Teaching our kids to be Digital Citizens
Resources & Tools Next Steps
Cyberbullying: In Plain English
The use of digital media tools, such as the Internet and cell phones, to deliberately and repeatedly hurt, harass, or embarrass someone else.
You know that kids can be meanBut Cyberbullying is entirely different!
Digital Drama • Examples of cyberbullying behavior
➢ Publicly sharing messages or images meant to be private – sometimes “sexting”
➢ Repeatedly sending hurtful, harassing, or threatening messages
➢ Spreading rumors, lies, or embarrassing stories
➢ Posting cruel comments on the Internet
➢ Setting up fake social networking pages to make fun of targets
Cyberbullies aren’t always the kids we’d expect
Social pressure often motivates behavior
!
More public, permanent, and inescapable than
traditional school yard bullying
!
Targets commonly experience sadness, social anxiety, or acting out
!
Crosses-over between school and home
Together WE can…
Prevent kids from adopting bullying
behavior
Support kids who are targeted
Inspire the other 2/3 of kids stop bullying when they see it
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
How do you do it?
What OUR PROGRAM is doingSetting clear, realistic, and
enforced policies Teaching digital citizenship in our classrooms
Giving students a trusted “go-to” adult Encouraging students to
stand up, not stand by
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
What can (You, Parents) do?
•Know what kids are doing online
•Keep an eye on online socializing
•Explain the basics of good behavior online
•Teach about their digital footprints
•Keep passwords private
•Encourage communication with a trusted adult
•Establish consequences for bullying behavior
•Be prepared to deal with cyberbullyingSource: CommonSenseMedia.org
How do you deal with a Cyberbullying Incident?
Middle school preteen or teen
Kim receives a call from the school principal about her twelve-year-old son. The principal says that her son — who’s never had any trouble in school — faces suspension because he sent some threatening text messages to another student in class. The texts said, “14 days until you die — the power of Zircon will prevail.” Four other boys in the class are involved and one of their text messages warns, “Disaster will come if you step into our circle of fire!” Her son is being held in after-school detention, and Kim has been asked to come in immediately.
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
Middle school preteen or teen
What would you do if you received this call? What questions would you have?
» Who are all the people affected in this situation? What might their views be?
» What do you think the consequences should be for the kids involved?
» How can parents monitor their kids’ cell phone messages, pictures, and texts?
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
Middle school / high school teen
Jennifer’s tenth-grade daughter Mia has just brokenup with her boyfriend Ryan. It was a hard break-up and Ryan is still steaming, but he has started to date a girl on Mia’s volleyball team. All the kids in Mia’s class are on Facebook — they use it to plan parties, post pictures, share the latest news about their favorite bands, andjust hang out. Jennifer and the other parents complain that Facebook is a waste of time, but they’ve pretty much accepted that it is part of their kids’ lives. While cooking breakfast one day, Jennifer hears her daughter scream and then rush down the stairs. “Mom, my friends just texted to tell me that someone posted a video of me naked in the locker room on YouTube! And all over his Facbook page there are old photos of Ryan and me kissing and private emails that I sent to him. I tried to get on to his profile page to see them, but he’s blocked me as a friend. Mia collapses at the table sobbing, “I’m sooo pissed and so embarrassed. My friends are going to hate me!”
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
Middle school / high school teen
What would you do and say if this happened to your child?
» What role do you think the school should play in addressing this situation, as opposed to the parents or the kids themselves?
» What are some different ways that kids can use technology to bully others?
» How can playing pranks, even relatively innocent ones, have hugely damaging consequences when video technology and the Internet are involved?
» How can we teach our kids to self-reflect before they self-reveal? Treat one another kindly online? Respect their own privacy and the privacy of others?
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
High school teen
Nima senses something is bothering her teenage son. He’s been quiet and withdrawn lately. She suspects it has something to do with his being online, because some- times he appears frustrated and walks away from the computer abruptly. The family uses an Internet monitor- ing software, so Nima decides to check the web historyto see where her son has been online. He was on MySpace a lot. One MySpace page was a profile that showed a picture of her son’s head morphed onto a dog’s body with some other degrading content. After her initial shock, she was confused about how someone could have done this. She knew what MySpace was but had never really visited the site before.
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
High school teen
» How did Nima know something was wrong? » What steps should she take in this situation? » What can be done to help her son, who has been hurt and ridiculed publicly? » Who can her son turn to if he can’t approach his mom?
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
Dealing with Cyberbullying IncidentsBecause you must!
Offer support Provide solutions to help Stand up for
them Prevent future incidents
Target Acknowledge the problemUnderstand their feelings
Enact consequencesGet help if needed
Bully
Thank them for sharingEncourage action
Keep communication open
Bystander
Commend their good choices Encourage community
Upstander
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
Starting the Conversation
• Discuss what it means to be a good friend
• Talk about online vs. offline talk • Model good communication • Ask if they’ve seen kids being mean
online • Encourage the “stand up, not
stand by” policy • Emphasize that your door is
always openSource: CommonSenseMedia.org
Questions or Comments?
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