Cyber Bullying: A Prevention Curriculum for Grades 6-12 & Grades 3-5 (Haxelden)

1. Miracle-Josette Creighton
Cyber Bullying: A Prevention Curriculum for
Grades 6-12 & Grades 3-5
Hazelden
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2. Who is the intended Audience?
• Cyber Bullying: A Prevention Curriculum for Grades
6-12 is designed for middle school and high school
students.
• Cyber Bullying: A Prevention Curriculum for Grades
3-5 is designed for elementary school students.
• This program would fit well within a health
education, communications, technology, or general
life skills curriculum.
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3. What is Cyber Bullying: A Prevention
Curriculum for Grades 6-12 and 3-5?
Cyber Bullying: A Prevention Curriculum for Grades 6-
12 and Grades 3-5; is a program that deals with
attitudes and behaviors associated with cyber
bullying.
* Grades 6-12: consists of eight-sessions
* Grades 3-5: consists of five-sessions
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4. What are the Goals of the Program?
• Raise students’ and parents’ awareness of what cyber
bullying is and why it is so harmful.
• Equip students with the skills and resources to treat
each other respectfully when they use cyber
technologies; and help students know how to get help
if they, or others they know, are being cyber bullied.
• Equip students with the skills to use cyber technologies
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5. Is this a Research-Based Program?
• Cyber Bullying is not a research-based program, but
it is based on the latest research in prevention and
on the topic of cyber bullying.
• Many of the lesson activities are patterned after
prevention models that research has shown to be
effective in decreasing negative student behavior,
and increasing student attitudes toward refraining
from negative behaviors.
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6. Curriculum Scope & Sequence
• Session 1:
What is Bullying?
• Define Bullying
• Identify examples of
bullying.
• Identify the roles students
play in the “Bully position”
• Identify rules against
bullying
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7. Curriculum Scope & Sequence
• Session 2:
What is Cyber Bullying?
• Define cyber bullying
• Identify the technologies
used in cyber bullying.
• Identify cyber bullying
situations.
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8. Curriculum Scope & Sequence
• Session 3:
How Does Cyber Bullying
Affect People?
• Identify the effects of cyber
bullying on the child who is
bullied, the bystanders, and
the child(ren) who bully.
• Identify how to use
technology in a positive
way.
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9. Curriculum Scope & Sequence
• Session 4:
Why Do People Cyber Bully
Others?
• Identify reasons why people
think they can get away
with cyber bullying others.
• State why they think cyber
bullying is unacceptable.
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10. Curriculum Scope & Sequence
• Session 5:
How Should You React to
Cyber Bullying?
• Identify what steps to take if
they are cyber bullied.
• Identify what steps to take if
they are cyber bullied.
• Identify what steps to take if
they know that someone
else is being cyber bullied.
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11. Curriculum Scope & Sequence
• Session 6:
Creating a Positive Cyber Site
Part I
• Describe how some social
networking sites began.
• Explain what social
networking sites do to curb
abuse.
• Describe the steps in
planning a social networking
site.
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12. Curriculum Scope & Sequence
• Session 7:
Creating a Positive Cyber Site
Part II
• Describe the components of
an effective presentation.
• Identify how they personally
will commit themselves to
stop or prevent cyber
bullying.
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13. Curriculum Scope & Sequence
• Session 8:
Creating a Positive Cyber Site
Part III
• Make a public commitment
to preventing cyber
bullying.
• Identify positive ways to use
social networking Web sites.
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14. Evaluation Process for Effectiveness
• Process Evaluation: examines whether the prevention
was carried out as planned.
• Impact Assessment: determine whether the
prevention has brought about a change.
• Outcome Evaluation: this is where the outcomes are
measured to see if the prevention was successful.
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15. Example of Session 2:
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16. CYBER BULLYING
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17. Cyber Bullying
• Describes forms of bullying using electronic devices
such as mobile phones and computers.
• Instead of bullying happening face-to-face, it
happens through the use of technology.
• It peaks around the end of middle school and the
beginning of high school.
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18. Forms of Cyber Bullying:
• Emails
• Text messaging
• Chat
• Instant messaging
• Websites
• Online Games
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19. My Space
• You join My space and create
a profile
• You invite your friends to join
My Space and search My
Space for your friends who
are already members. These
people become part of your
initial “Friend Space.”
• All of the people in your
friends’ Friend Space become
part of your network. You
now have connections to
more people than you did 15
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20. Online Social Networking and Gaming
• Webkins (younger children)
• My Space
• Facebook
• Bebo
• Second Life
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21. Second Life Social Networking
• Users pretend to be whomever or
whatever they want to be
• It has a virtual economy
• It is a complex environment filled
with potential risks and rewards.
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22. Signs of Being Cyber Bullied
• Unexpectedly stops using the computer
• Appears nervous and jumpy when receiving Instant
Messages and Emails
• Uneasy about going to school
• Appears angry, depressed, or frustrated when using
the computer
• Becomes abnormally withdraw from usual friends.
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23. Signs of Being the Cyber Bully
• Quickly closes screen or program when you walk by
• Uses the computer at all hours of the night
• Gets usually upset when he or she can’t get a computer
• Laughing excessively when using the computer
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24. Rules against Cyber Bullying
• We will not cyber bully others.
• We will try to help students who are cyber bullied.
• We will include students who are easily left out.
• When we know somebody is being cyber bullied,
we will tell an adult at school and an adult at home.
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25. Thank you very much for your time & attention
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