"Cyber Savvy is a student-led, positive norms approach to teach upper intermediate, middle, and high school students (grades 5 - 12) about digital safety, including effective digital decision-making, safe posting of personal information, digital relationships, social networking, cyberbullying, and digital dating/exploitation. The schools that have used this program in the pilot testing have been very pleased with the results.
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Which in turn is driven by the media sensationalizing such events when they happen
As more students spend large chunks of study and leisure time online, schools across the USA are adding coursework focused on privacy, cyberbullying and electronic plagiarism.
Teens see meanness, but they still see social media spaces as a good thing
70% say folks are mostly kind overall
8% only say they have been bullied
88% have witnessed meanness/bullying
Teens do care about privacy and think about how it will reflect on them in the future - digital footprint