Activity 5.3: Cyberbullying and Social Media
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Reflection:
In my classroom I would like
to show students how their words could affect others, even if their intentions aren't negative. My first strategy would be to simply talk to them and see
where they stand on bullying. After the chat I would leave them to think about
it for a while, and not touch on it anymore unless a case of bullying involving
one of my students was to come up. At that point it would be time to implement my
second strategy which would be to show them the Lady Gaga and Amanda Todd
videos. This strategy would obviously be the more severe of the two, because it
involves real-life stories of struggle and death. I would not announce it to
the class, but I would get the student(s) involved in the bullying to write me
a short personal response paper based on the videos, which would include a
reflection on the situation that he/she/they were involved in, and how to avoid
or better handle such situations in the future. I think that personal
reflection on the part of the student, which can be assessed, is the only way
to truly combat bullying as a teacher. Because teachers can preach kindness
until they are blue in the face, but unless that student is able to reflect on
the situation and process it him/herself, no real growth can occur. And when teachers
do not take steps to make sure real reflection occurs the classroom can never
become a truly safe, comfortable environment.
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