Thursday, December 19, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
CHCA Teacher Reported Stolen iPhone and Naked Photos
No matter what the situation .. never, ever, never, ever, never, ever, never, ever allow/have photos of you taken that you would not want to end up on the news ... because it probably will.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Take action when a child is being bullied online.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Maintaining Your Digital Reputation
Maintaining Your Digital Reputation
OCTOBER 30, 2013
Ben is a blogger from the Internet Keep Safe Coalition.
Just before I started my freshman year of high school, my family moved from the suburban sprawl to a small town. It was the kind of place where everyone knew each other and newcomers were few and far between. I remember those first few weeks feebly attempting to remain aloof until I had my feet underneath me. Little did I know, I was being observed the whole time. Without so much as saying a word, I had built a reputation for myself. And in a town like that one, your reputation stays with you.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets.
They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets.
JOHN-PATRICK THOMAS
By NATASHA SINGER
November 9, 2013
At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students. Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments on Twitter about her fellow attendees, repeatedly using a common expletive.
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Sunday, November 3, 2013
Technology and School Safety Report Available
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Submit the Documentary: Cyberbullying
Submit the Documentary exposes the most epic struggle in the digital, Internet age: cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is bullying by means of electronic technology committed through email, instant messaging, mobile applications, social media, chat rooms, and blogs or through messages and images sent through a cell phone. Because of the anonymity, kids who never thought of being a bully are becoming harassers. By exploring the complicated dynamics behind cyberbullying, Submit the Documentary describes the impact and outcomes of advanced technology and human nature in a lawless, new, social frontier.
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Guarding Kids Against High Tech Trouble
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
October Is Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
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Sunday, October 20, 2013
Will Facebook change lead to an erosion of privacy rights for teens?
Source: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec13/teens_10-17.html
Privacy settings on Facebook will now allow users aged 13-17 to share posts with people outside their friend network. Will the change help teens express themselves or lead to problems like cyberbullying? Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Stephen Balkam of the Family Online Safety Institute and Jim Steyer of Common Sense Media.
Privacy settings on Facebook will now allow users aged 13-17 to share posts with people outside their friend network. Will the change help teens express themselves or lead to problems like cyberbullying? Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Stephen Balkam of the Family Online Safety Institute and Jim Steyer of Common Sense Media.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Secret Mean Stinks Presents: Meanamorphosis
Meanamorphosis is the story of Emily Monroe, a bully whose mean behavior causes her to change in an unusual way.
This strange tale is accompanied by a "scratch & sniff" card with eight different scents. Some of them smell nice and some are as nasty as the bully herself.
Meanamorphosis is part of Mean Stinks, the grassroots anti-bullying program created by Secret Deodorant. To learn more, go to Facebook.com/MeanStinks or follow us on Twitter @meanstinks
This strange tale is accompanied by a "scratch & sniff" card with eight different scents. Some of them smell nice and some are as nasty as the bully herself.
Meanamorphosis is part of Mean Stinks, the grassroots anti-bullying program created by Secret Deodorant. To learn more, go to Facebook.com/MeanStinks or follow us on Twitter @meanstinks
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Phone App Used To Cyber Bully Concerns Middle School
DUBLIN, Ohio -
Principal Brain Lidle at Ann Simpson Davis Middle School started to see a disturbing trend of cyber bullying with a phone app called Kik messenger.
"Kids were creating false alias and false accounts attached to false email accounts where they were doing things to other students. They are posing as other students trying to harass another," said Lidle.
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Principal Brain Lidle at Ann Simpson Davis Middle School started to see a disturbing trend of cyber bullying with a phone app called Kik messenger.
"Kids were creating false alias and false accounts attached to false email accounts where they were doing things to other students. They are posing as other students trying to harass another," said Lidle.
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WCMH: News, Weather, and Sports for Columbus, Ohio
Thursday, September 26, 2013
The Most Common Errors Kids (And Others) Make Online
The Most Common Errors Kids (And Others) Make Online
Posted on September 22, 2013
Want to have an interesting conversation with your kids? Read aloud this column, and ask them their opinions. It’s fine if they disagree – the point is to have the conversation, and plant some seeds! Below you’ll find six of the most common reasons that kids get into trouble online – notice that none of these are “technical” issues at all.
Read more: http://www.bullyingbb.com/2013/09/22/the-most-common-errors-kids-and-others-make-online/
11 Sites and Apps Kids Are Heading to After Facebook
11 Sites and Apps Kids Are Heading to After Facebook
Next-generation apps that let users text, video chat, shop, and share their pics and videos are attracting teens like catnip.
| Kelly Schryver • | September 20, 2013 • | Categories: Social networking for kids | |
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Remember MySpace? Not so long ago, practically every teen in the world was on it –- and then many left for Facebook. Now, as Facebook's popularity among teens is starting to wane, you might be wondering what the new "it" social network is. But the days of a one-stop shop for all social networking needs are over. Instead, teens are dividing their attention between an array of apps and tools that let them write, share, video chat, and even shop for the latest trends.
Brotherly Love Goes Viral, Big Time Rush Surprises Bullied Sister
Published on Sep 20, 2013
Ryan, 8, told Santa the thing he wants most for Christmas is for kids to stop bullying his sister.
Ryan, 8, told Santa the thing he wants most for Christmas is for kids to stop bullying his sister.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
A Hate Crime Detective's Message to High School Students
Bias crimes investigator Detective David D'Amico regularly visits schools to talk frankly and powerfully to the group responsible for the majority of these crimes—young people. His presentation includes cautionary advice not only about how derogatory words used online are hurtful but how they can also make the user a target for recruitment by hate groups. D'Amico works in the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, New Jersey.
Guarding Kids Against High Tech Trouble
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Monday, August 26, 2013
Video games do not make vulnerable teens more violent
Study finds no evidence that violent video games increase antisocial behavior in youths with pre-existing psychological conditions
New York / Heidelberg, 26 August 2013
Do violent video games such as ‘Mortal Kombat,’ ‘Halo’ and ‘Grand Theft Auto’ trigger teenagers with symptoms of depression or attention deficit disorder to become aggressive bullies or delinquents? No, according to Christopher Ferguson of Stetson University and independent researcher Cheryl Olson from the US in a study published in Springer’s Journal of Youth and Adolescence. On the contrary, the researchers found that the playing of such games actually had a very slight calming effect on youths with attention deficit symptoms and helped to reduce their aggressive and bullying behavior.
Ferguson and Olson studied 377 American children, on average 13 years of age, from various ethnic groups who had clinically elevated attention deficit or depressive symptoms. The children were part of an existing large federally funded project that examines the effect of video game violence on youths.
The study is important in light of ongoing public debate as to whether or not violent video games fuel behavioral aggression and societal violence among youths, especially among those with pre-existing mental health problems. Societal violence includes behavior such as bullying, physical fighting, criminal assaults and even homicide. And the news media often draws a link from the playing of violent video games to the perpetrators of school shootings in the United States.
Ferguson and Olson’s findings do not support the popular belief that violent video games increase aggression in youth who have a predisposition to mental health problems. The researchers found no association between the playing of violent video games and subsequent increased delinquent criminality or bullying in children with either clinically elevated depressive or attention deficit symptoms. Their findings are in line with those of a recent Secret Service report in which the occurrence of more general forms of youth violence were linked with aggressiveness and stress rather than with video game violence. Interestingly, the researchers of the current study found a few instances in which video game violence actually had a slight cathartic effect on children with elevated attention deficit symptoms and helped to reduce their aggressive tendencies and bullying behavior.
Although Ferguson and Olson warned that their results could not be generalized to extreme cases such as mass homicides, they strongly advocate for a change in general perceptions about the influence of violent video games, even within the context of children with elevated mental health symptoms.
“We found no evidence that violent video games increase bullying or delinquent behavior among vulnerable youth with clinically elevated mental health symptoms,” Ferguson stressed. Regarding concerns about some young mass homicide perpetrators having played violent video games, Ferguson stated, “Statistically speaking it would actually be more unusual if a youth delinquent or shooter did notplay violent video games, given that the majority of youth and young men play such games at least occasionally.”
Reference: Ferguson C.J, Olson C. (2013). Video game violence among ‘vulnerable’ populations: the impact of violent games on delinquency and bullying among children with clinically elevated depression or attention deficit symptoms,Journal of Youth and Adolescence. DOI 10.1007/s10964-013-9986-5
Friday, August 16, 2013
When the Going Gets Scruff
The National Crime Prevention Council is excited to unveil our new animated short video on bullying, When the Going Gets Scruff, which is intended for children ages 5 to 9 to view in school and in afterschool settings. Bullying has become an epidemic and a public health concern. Now is an opportune time, as we all prepare for the approaching school year, for teachers and caregivers to consider how they can use this new resource once school is back in session.
The seven-minute animation features the long-standing crime prevention icon McGruff the Crime Dog and his nephew Scruff®. From this video children learn that they shouldn’t ignore bullying or enter physical altercations with their opponents. The two take-away messages for children are, “Don’t bystand. Lend a hand,” and “Stop, talk, and walk.” Additionally, NCPC has drafted discussion questions to accompany When the Going Gets Scruff that can be used by facilitators to encourage discussion among students after they’ve viewed the video.
The video and accompanying discussion questions are available to download free of charge on NCPC’s website (www.ncpc.org), NCPC’s website for children (www.mcgruff.org), and various other video streaming sites such as YouTube (www.youtube.com/NCPC82), so that teachers, caregivers, and law enforcement all over the country can easily share it with students.
Funded by the Community Oriented Policing Services office of the U.S. Department of Justice, the goal of this new animated short video is to increase the number of law enforcement officers who partner with school staff and community stakeholders to address and prevent bullying.
If you have any questions, please email media@ncpc.org with subject line “WTGGS Inquiry.” After showing the video and facilitating a discussion, please complete this five-question survey
to provide us with helpful feedback. We thank you in advance for your thoughts and comments.
Sincerely,
Michelle Boykins
Senior Director of Communications
National Crime Prevention Council
www.ncpc.org
Friday, August 2, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Connection between violent new media and the behavior of young people
NewsConference: Michele Ybarra, Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Michele Ybarra is the president and research director of the Center for Innovative Public Health Research, a non-profit based in Orange County. She's researching the connection between violent new media and the behavior of young people.
Michele Ybarra is the president and research director of the Center for Innovative Public Health Research, a non-profit based in Orange County. She's researching the connection between violent new media and the behavior of young people.
View more videos at: http://nbclosangeles.com.
Researchers dispel myths about cyberbullying
Researchers dispel myths about cyberbullying
by Larry MagidThis post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News
Michele Ybarra
A lot has been written about cyberbullying and I’ve seen some articles claiming that cyberbullying is more prevalent and more severe than in-person bullying. Some even refer to it as an “epidemic.”
But, in a presentation at the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) conference in Washington last week, a leading researcher on youth risk reported that the popular belief is actually a misconception. Compared to that bullying that takes place at school and other in-person venues, online bullying is both less prevalent and less distressing.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Individual and Contextual Predictors of Cyberbullying
Individual and Contextual Predictors of Cyberbullying: The Influence of Children’s Provictim Attitudes and Teachers’ Ability to Intervene
L. Christian Elledge, Anne Williford, Aaron J. Boulton, Kathryn J. DePaolis, Todd D. Little, Christina Salmivalli
Electronic social communication has provided a new context for children to bully and harass their peers and it is clear that cyberbullying is a growing public health concern in the US and abroad. The present study examined individual and contextual predictors of cyberbullying in a sample of 16, 634 students in grades 3–5 and 7–8. Data were obtained from a large cluster-randomized trial of the KiVa antibullying program that occurred in Finland between 2007 and 2009. Students completed measures at pre-intervention assessing provictim attitudes (defined as children’s beliefs that bullying is unacceptable, victims are acceptable, and defending victims is valued), perceptions of teachers’ ability to intervene in bullying, and cyberbullying behavior. Students with higher scores on provictim attitudes reported lower frequencies of cyberbullying. This relationship was true for individual provictim attitudes as well as the collective attitudes of students within classrooms. Teachers’ ability to intervene assessed at the classroom level was a unique, positive predictor of cyberbullying. Classrooms in which students collectively considered their teacher as capable of intervening to stop bullying had higher mean levels of cyberbullying frequency. Our findings suggest that cyberbullying and other indirect or covert forms of bullying may be more prevalent in classrooms where students collectively perceive their teacher’s ability to intervene in bullying as high. We found no evidence that individual or contextual effects were conditional on age or gender. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
New “It Gets Better” Bullying Prevention Video Available Online
Friday, July 12, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Bullying Exerts Psychiatric Effects Into Adulthood
Once considered a childhood rite of passage, bullying lingers well into adulthood. Bullies and victims alike are at risk for psychiatric problems such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and suicide when they become adults, reported a study partially funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) that was published in the April issue of JAMA Psychiatry.
For the full story, see: Bullying Exerts Psychiatric Effects Into Adulthood
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Evaluation of Internet Child Safety Materials Used by ICAC Task Forces in School and Community Settings
| Through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NIJ has made available the following final technical report (this report is the result of an NIJ-funded project but was not published by the U.S. Department of Justice): Title: Evaluation of Internet Child Safety Materials Used by ICAC Task Forces in School and Community Settings |
Authors: Lisa M. Jones, Ph.D., Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC); Kimberly J. Mitchell, Ph.D., CCRC; Wendy A. Walsh, Ph.D., CCRC
Excerpt from the Authors' Abstract:
This project involves content and process evaluations of current internet safety education (ISE) program materials and their use by law enforcement presenters and schools. Despite a proliferation of internet safety programs over the last decade, there is little information that can guide law enforcement, policy makers or the public in determining which materials or delivery methods are most likely to increase children’s online safety.
ISE content and process evaluation results indicated that the educational approach and messages of current ISE fail to incorporate critical elements of effective prevention education, including: 1) research-based messages; 2) skill-based learning objectives; 3) opportunities for youth to practice new skills; and 4) sufficient time for learning. Our analyses indicate that the ISE field has been slow to include research-based information on internet predators and online harassment and there is no research to support the assumption that many of the popular educational slogans/messages around privacy and digital reputation concerns (e.g., “Think Before You Click”) will lead to improved youth online behavior.
The failure to define research-supported program logic means that most ISE is a highly speculative and experimental undertaking, whose success cannot be assumed. Recommendations are made for re-conceptualizing ISE and developing a more effective approach to helping protect youth.
Monday, June 10, 2013
The Interview
Keep your digital reputation clean and think twice about posting pics...they could affect you later in ways you couldn't dream of!
Video Suggestions for Net Literacy Wanted
Net Literacy has a summer program that produces high school student-created 60-120 second videos to be used as safety training resources at schools and other youth-serving organizations.
We are seeking video topic suggestions from the members of this sage group so that we can increase the quality of the videos we produce. We'll also do our best to appropriately communicate the desired learning outcomes that you suggest in a way that is enaging to teens. A link to your blog or article that provides additional information will help us develop the video. If there are a couple most important points for the middle school and high school viewers to understand, we would appreciate you listing them. Please let us know how you would like us to credit you and site your work. E-rate related topics are especially appreciated.
Net Literacy (www.netliteracy.org) is a student-founded digital literacy/inclusion and nonprofit where 50% of the board of directors are students, and students are responsible for all of the service learning. The videos are part of our Safe Connects outreach (www.safeconnects.org).
Here are links to a few of last year's safety videos to give you an idea of their look and feel:
Monday, June 3, 2013
Students Experience Less Bullying, Fear at School, New Data Show
Students Experience Less Bullying, Fear at School, New Data Show
Middle school students aren't hurling names and epithets like they used to or being targeted by hate-related graffiti at school as much as in the past. And they are less afraid of being attacked or harmed at school and less likely to avoid certain places within their schools for fear of an attack than they have been in the past, new data from the National Center on Education Statistics show.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
The Fourth Report of the World Internet Project is Now Available
The Fourth Report of the World Internet Project is Now Available 
Date: 19/12/2012
The World Internet Project has published its fourth report of findings on the global impact of online technology -- a five-continent collaboration that creates an international picture of change produced by the Internet.
The fourth report of the World Internet Project includes findings from 11 of the project’s 37 partner countries that explore the behavior and views of Internet users and non-users.
The data was collected in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
To view the press release, please click on Download PDF.
To read or download the report, please click on the following link:
http://www.worldinternetproject.net/_files/_Published/_oldis/770_2012wip_report4th_ed.pdf
The fourth report of the World Internet Project includes findings from 11 of the project’s 37 partner countries that explore the behavior and views of Internet users and non-users.
The data was collected in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
To view the press release, please click on Download PDF.
To read or download the report, please click on the following link:
http://www.worldinternetproject.net/_files/_Published/_oldis/770_2012wip_report4th_ed.pdf
Monday, May 27, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Issue #139 of the SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter is now online!
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Issue #139 (May 23, 2013) of the SchoolCounselor.com
eNewsletter is now online! |
SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter is an electronic newsletter designed to advance counselors' level of technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find practical solutions and answers to technology related problems, especially as they apply to your job as counselor. If you would like to share a tip or trick, or if you would like to ask a question, e-mail Russ Sabella atnews@schoolcounselor.com
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A Parents’ Guide to Snapchat
ConnectSafely’s new Parents’ Guide to Snapchat provides parents, educators – anyone – a glimpse into this popular photo-sharing app where pictures (usually*) disappear a few seconds after they’re viewed. The six-page guide, which can be viewed on your screen or printed out, starts out with the Top 5 questions parents typically have about Snapchat; continues with what makes Snapchat unique, why kids love it and how they use it; and concludes with some basic advice for parenting young Snapchat users.[*We also explain how photos don't always disappear in 10 sec. or less.]
Click to view or print: A Parents’ Guide to Snapchat
A Parents’ Guide to Instagram
ConnectSafely’s new Parents’ Guide to Instagram provides parents, educators, anyone curious about this popular photo-sharing app with all they need to help kids optimize their use of it. The six-page guide, which can be viewed on your screen or printed out, starts out with the Top 5 questions parents typically have about Instagram, then explains point by point how it works and what to do if problems arise. The guide ends with some basic advice on parenting young photo-sharers.
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