Bullying and Cyberbullying Severity Linked to Adolescent Suicide

| Jun 10, 2019| 2018,
Brain Health, Infant and Children's Health |

Written by Joyce Smith, Staff Writer. Survey analyses of 2,670 middle and high school students across the United States revealed that students who experienced both bullying at school and cyberbullying were more than 11 times as likely to attempt suicide compared to those who had not been bullied.

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http://www.naturalhealthresearch.org/bullying-and-cyberbullying-severity-linked-to-adolescent-suicide/

The Parent’s and Educator’s Guide to Combating Online Hate Speech

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By Brittan Heller, JD and Larry Magid, Ed.D 

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The internet is making it possible for people around the world to communicate with lightning speed and, for the most part, it’s a good thing. Whether it’s keeping up with friends and family or meeting new folks across the world, connected technology has made it a lot easier for us all to share ideas and information, seek advice and much more.

Read more: https://www.connectsafely.org/hatespeech/

The Facts About Online Predators Every Parent Should Know

The Facts About Online Predators Every Parent Should Know | Common Sense Media https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/the-facts-about-online-predators-every-parent-should-know

Xfinity xFi

If you have Xfinity or internet from Comcast, your family safety controls are built in. Read more at https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/xfinity-xfi-overview

Digital Citizenship Resources

From the Scout Report Newsletter, several valuable resources:

Common Sense Education: Digital Citizenship

Be Internet Awesome

IRL: Online Life is Real Life

Civic Online Reasoning

Digital Citizenship Utah

The Scout Report (ISSN 1092-3861) is published every Friday of the year except for the last two Fridays of December by the Internet Scout Research Group, based in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer Sciences. 

You can search their resources here: https://scout.wisc.edu/archives/index.php

Digital Citizenship Lessons

Digital Citizenship | Common Sense Education:
https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship

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