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Cyber Bullying Thursday May 13, 2010

WELCOME!. Cyber Bullying Thursday May 13, 2010. Adolescents and Technology. 93% of adolescents spend time on line 75% use instant messaging 75% have their own cell phones 58% of 12-year olds now own a cell phone, up from just 18% of such teens as recently as 2004

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Cyber Bullying Thursday May 13, 2010

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  1. WELCOME! Cyber Bullying Thursday May 13, 2010

  2. Adolescents and Technology • 93% of adolescents spend time on line • 75% use instant messaging • 75% have their own cell phones • 58% of 12-year olds now own a cell phone, up from just 18% of such teens as recently as 2004 • 54% of teens text daily (Sept. 09) up from 38% (Feb. 08) The Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2009

  3. Adolescents and Cell Phones * • Boys and girls are just as likely to have a phone, though they do not always use it in the same way. • There are no differences by race or ethnicity in phone ownership by teens. • Socioeconomic status is one area where cell phone ownership rates vary, with teens from lower income families less likely to own a mobile phone.

  4. Use of Social Networking Sites • 73% of online youth in the United States use online social networking sites, up from 55% in 2006 and 65% in 2008. • 58% of teens (12-17) use cell phone to access SNS, up from 25% in 2007 Pew Internet Project, 2009

  5. What is Bullying behavior? “A person is being bullied when s/he is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more persons, and s/he has difficulty defending her/himself” Olweus, et al, 2007

  6. * What is Cyber Bullying? • Discovery definition • Bullying: Pattern of intentional harm-doing/negative actions between individuals with power differential • Examples include but are not limited to: threatening, taunting, teasing, name calling, hitting, pushing, kicking, pinching, retraining, making faces or suggestive gestures, sending or posting harmful text or images using technology or intentionally excluding someone from a group • Cyber Bullying: The use of technology, email, instant messaging, text messaging or social networking sites to bully, intimidate and harass a person or group of people

  7. Electronic Aggression • Any kind of aggression perpetrated through technology--any type of harassment or bullying (teasing, telling lies, making fun of someone, making rude or mean comments, spreading rumors, or making threatening or aggressive comments) that occurs through email, a chat room, instant messaging, a website (including blogs), or text messaging Centers for Disease Control, 2008

  8. Context • Our students have grown up with the internet • Generation Gap • They are the “intuitives” • We are the “visitors” "You have a generation faced with a society with fundamentally different properties, thanks to the Internet…It's a question for us of how we teach ourselves and our children to live in a society where these properties are fundamentally a way of life. This is public life today.” -Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. PBS.org

  9. Traditional vs.Cyber Bullying * Five different characteristics • Anonymity • Accessibility • Punitive Fears • Bystanders • Disinhibition

  10. Common Forms of Cyber Bullying * Harassment Exclusion Trolling Denigration Flaming Impersonation Outing and Trickery Cyber stalking

  11. * Cyber Bullying Trends • “I.M.ing” is the most common form of cyber-bullying • 56% percent of perpetrators of electronic aggression and 67% of victims said the aggression they experienced or perpetrated was through instant messaging. • Victims also report experiencing electronic aggression through email (25%) and text messages (16%) CDC 2008

  12. How common is Cyber Bullying? According to one study, of those students surveyed: • 42% have been bullied online • 35% have been threatened online • 53% admit having said something hurtful to another person online www.CFChildren.org

  13. Cyber Bullying is on the rise… • In 2000, 6% of internet users ages 10-17 said they had been the victim of “on-line harassment,” which was defined as threats or other offensive behavior [not sexual solicitation] sent or posted on-line. • By 2005, the percentage had increased by 50%, to 9%. CDC 2008

  14. * Anonymity • Between 13% and 46% of young people who were victims of electronic aggression report not knowing their harasser’s identity. • Similarly, 22% of young people who admit they perpetrate electronic aggression report they do not know the identity of their victim. CDC 2008

  15. * Not always anonymous • As for the victims and perpetrators who are not anonymous, in one study, almost half of the victims (47%) said the perpetrator was another student at school. • In addition, aggression between siblings is no longer limited to the backseat of the car: 12% of victims reported their brother or sister was the perpetrator, and 10% of perpetrators reported being electronically aggressive toward a sibling. CDC 2008

  16. “Sexting” • “Sexting” is sending nude or sexually suggestive pictures and accompanying text via cell phone. • Although the original “sexter” may only send the suggestive message to one person--a girlfriend or boyfriend, for example--that message can be forwarded to anyone in the recipient’s address book, and from there, all across a school or community. • Once it’s out there, there’s no way to take back the message or the accompanying embarrassment or humiliation. CFC 2010

  17. * Sending Sexts • No difference by gender • Oldest teens most likely to have sent • 8% of 17 year olds • 4% of 12 year olds • 17% who pay for all the costs of the phone send sexts vs. 3% of others Pew 2009

  18. * Receiving Sexts • Again, no gender differences and increases by age • 4% of 12 year olds • 20% of 16 year olds • 30% of 17 year olds • Sending texts, having unlimited texting plan increases receipt Pew 2009

  19. * Cyber Banging • Gangs use websites, twitter, text messages, blogs, SNS, video streaming, online gaming to: • Recruit • Retaliate • Glamorize

  20. * Online Gaming • PS3 “School Bully” 2006 • Interactive game “Rape Lay” 2009

  21. If the Internet was a neighborhood

  22. Where is this happening? • The majority of online cyber-bullying is not carried out at school • The exception is text messaging with cell phones, which occurs in and out of school at the same rate (and remember that most cyber-bullying happens through text messages)

  23. * So if it’s not at school… “Whether electronic aggression occurs at home or at school, it has implications for the school and needs further exploration. As was previously mentioned, young people who were harassed on-line were more likely to get a detention or be suspended, to skip school, and to experience emotional distress than those who were not harassed. In addition, young people who receive rude or nasty comments via text messaging are significantly more likely to report feeling unsafe at school.” CDC 2008

  24. School Safety Issue * “Youth who had reported being targeted by internet harassment were 8 times more likely than all other youth to report carrying a weapon to school in the past 30 days” Ybarra, et al (2008)

  25. So what can I do about it?ComprehensiveEducation • Educate yourself: keep up on the quickly changing trends • Professional Development Opportunities • Family and Parent Education • Educate your students • Social skills/ Online etiquette • Decision making skills • Impulse Control • Emotion Management

  26. * Part of a School-Wide Bullying Prevention Program

  27. * School-wide Positive Behavior Support Systems Classroom Setting Systems Nonclassroom Setting Systems Individual Student Systems School-wide Systems

  28. * * Support and ResourcesSchool-wide • PREVENTION • Collaboration • Direct Instruction • NetSmartz • Hazelden Cyber Bullying Curriculum • Part of a school-wide system • Second Step • Olweus • Discipline/PBIS

  29. * Support and ResourcesClassroom and One on One • Make time for talking about social and emotional issues, like bullying • Get to know your students--the greatest determinant of academic success is school connectedness • Establish a SAFE environment • Act: honesty, confidentiality, consistency, positively • Model pro-social behavior

  30. Rules for what not to do AND what to do… STOP! BLOCK! and TELL! If you are targeted by a cyberbully: • STOP! • Don't do anything. Take 5 to calm down. • BLOCK! • Block the cyberbully or limit all communications to those on your buddy list. • TELL! • Tell a trusted adult, you don't have to face this alone. • TURN IT OFF! http://www.stopcyberbullying.org

  31. Questions? THANK YOU! If you have questions about SEL programming contact: • Julie Young Burns, Safe & Drug-free Schools JYB@mpls.k12.mn.us, 612-668-0867 • Jessi Tebben, Out4Good Coordinator Jessi.Tebben@mpls.k12.mn.us, 612-668-5482 • Kate Houghton, SEL District Program Facilitator Kate.Houghton@mpls.k12.mn.us, 612-668-0843

  32. Resources • http://sss.mpls.k12.mn.us • www.CFChildren.org • www.NetSmartz.org • www.MediaAwareness.ca • www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/ • http://pewinternet.org • Social and Emotional Learning Lending Library • http://destiny.mpls.k12.mn.us, Webster 168

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