5 Ways to Use Cell Phones To Combat Bullying. Harvard Education Letter. Building-wide campaigns including posters like this one reduced dating violence as much as 50 percent.
Volume 27, Number 6November/December 2011 New study points to successful strategies By Colleen Gillard Stopping Sexual Harassment in Middle School, continued The news that nearly half of students in grades 7-12 have experienced sexual harassment drew headlines around the nation last month, based on an online survey of nearly 2,000 students released by the American Association of University Women. OnGuard Online.
Sexting: What parents and teenagers should know (FriendlyScreens) Before society started using text messaging as a new form of communication, men and women used conversations and body gestures to flirt.
Today, many teenagers and young adults have found a sexier way to express interest for someone else. This new flirting technique is called sexting, or the act of text messaging someone sexually explicit content such as racy messages and erotic photographs or videos. Arlene Krieger, Ph.D., certified sexologist practicing in Florida, USA, said young girls, who are more flirtatious and more willing to sext than young men, believe sexting will help them attain acceptance and popularity.
“Maybe forty years ago girls wanted to be cheerleaders,” Krieger said. “Nowadays, many girls engage in sexting to feel sexy, desired and popular.” Sexting is also considered by many people an amusing way to keep a relationship spiced-up. “Phone sex seems to be so 1999,” Wichern said. Sexting’s legal issues.
Promoting a safe use of ICT and a responsible digital citizenship among children (FriendlyScreens) Cyberoam : Securing You. Internet Filters .net - Guide to Parental control and internet filter products. Web Filter Comparison. Best Internet Filter & Parental Control Software. CyberTipline - Report Child Pornography. The CyberTipline® receives leads and tips regarding suspected crimes of sexual exploitation committed against children.
More than 2.2 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation have been made to the CyberTipline between 1998 and Dec. 2013. If you have information regarding possible child sexual exploitation, report it to the CyberTipline. The CyberTipline is operated in partnership with the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Secret Service, military criminal investigative organizations, U.S. Reports are continuously triaged to help ensure children in imminent danger get first priority. Examine and evaluate the content. The CyberTipline reporting mechanism assists law enforcement and prosecutors in their detection, investigation and prosecution of child sexual exploitation crimes. ThinkUKnow. Do you really have a private life online? (social network privacy loss due to friends) NSTeens - Making Safer Online Choices. Home - ThinkUKnow.
Technology Education. Technology Education Mannsville and Wilson Elementary 5th Graders "Take On" Cyberbullies: Mannsville and Wilson 5th graders decided to do their part in educating the public on Cyberbullying. They have worked on two Public Service Announcements to do their part in the fight against cyberbullying. Each group had to come up with their own skit and graciously volunteered their time. Please take a moment to view their Public Service Announcements below. Check out some previous presentations here! Wilson Building Cyberbullying PSA (WMV ) Mannsville Building Cyberbullying PSA (WMV ) Mrs.
Internety Safety Presentation for Parents/Educators (PPT ) Web Wise Kids. USA-SOS.ORG. Netiquette. Internet Safety for Children - Safer Internet. Online safety & civility. Cyberbullying - what it is, how it works and how to understand and deal with cyberbullies. What is it?
:: how it works :: why cyberbully? :: prevention :: take action :: what's the law? :: stop cyberbullying toolkit :: 2013 Summit Join us for the 2014 StopCyberBullying Youth Summit in New Brunswick on March 22nd, 2014 starting at 8:00am at NBCC Woodstock! Home of "Don't Stand By, Stand Up," StopCyberbullying was the first cyberbullying prevention program in North America. Click here to See Pictures and Videos from the 2013 International Stopcyberbullying Youth Summit Contributions from Montague Consolidated Students for the International Stop Cyberbullying Youth Summit in Charlottetown on November 9th, 2013. Safe Connects PSAs. If the “real world” is a more positive than negative place for 99% of the planet’s citizens, then similarly, the Internet is a positive place for 99% of all of its netizens.
These public service announcements are one small component of a much larger media and digital literacy campaign to increase Internet safety awareness. We were asked to be the “voice of youth” and prioritize, script, and star in videos that focused on the most significant Internet safety problems of the day. All education, government, and nonprofits are free to use Net Literacy’s content without attribution so long as it is done in a responsible manner. So when using these PSAs as a component of your Internet safety training program, please balance the discussions with teens and adults so that these PSAs are viewed in an appropriate context – that the Internet is an empowering and positive place.
We see it this way. Blogging. If done safely, blogging can be a good exercise that encourages critical thinking and creative writing.
Unfortunately, children sometimes forget their blogs are not private and share information not intended for outsiders. Then, there are those children who simply do not care if their information is public; the more eyes they attract, the better. Risky Behavior.