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Keri-Lee Beasley

The Bully Project - 0 views

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    An engaging trailer for the  film detailing 4 or 5 students who are being bullied and/or parents of teens who have committed suicide following bullying. 
Katie Day

Fighting Bullying With Babies - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • It seems that it’s not only possible to make people kinder, it’s possible to do it systematically at scale – at least with school children. That’s what one organization based in Toronto called Roots of Empathy has done. Around babies, tough kids smile, disruptive kids focus, shy kids open up. Roots of Empathy was founded in 1996 by Mary Gordon, an educator who had built Canada’s largest network of school-based parenting and family-literacy centers after having worked with neglectful and abusive parents. Gordon had found many of them to be lacking in empathy for their children. They hadn’t developed the skill because they hadn’t experienced or witnessed it sufficiently themselves. She envisioned Roots as a seriously proactive parent education program – one that would begin when the mothers- and fathers-to-be were in kindergarten.
  • Here’s how it works: Roots arranges monthly class visits by a mother and her baby (who must be between two and four months old at the beginning of the school year). Each month, for nine months, a trained instructor guides a classroom using a standard curriculum that involves three 40-minute visits – a pre-visit, a baby visit, and a post-visit. The program runs from kindergarten to seventh grade. During the baby visits, the children sit around the baby and mother (sometimes it’s a father) on a green blanket (which represents new life and nature) and they try to understand the baby’s feelings. The instructor helps by labeling them. “It’s a launch pad for them to understand their own feelings and the feelings of others,” explains Gordon. “It carries over to the rest of class.”
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    how bringing babies into schools can help students develop empathy... and lessen bullying and aggression.... 
Jeffrey Plaman

Students fight bullies with kindness - NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News, Weather, Traffic ... - 0 views

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    Students fight bullies with kindness with Tweets for Good http://t.co/0kOhLCGf
Katie Day

How Shakespeare & Social Media Are Fighting Cyber Bullying - 0 views

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    "William Shakespeare, the bard behind some of the greatest works in the English language, is coming to a Facebook page near you. Weekly Reader has teamed up with the Ophelia Project and White Plains High School to re-enact one of Shakespeare's plays on Facebook from April 26 to 28. Much Ado About Nothing will be presented on a special page through status updates, posts, pictures and videos. The students helped create separate pages for their characters complete with pictures, in-character bios and likes. The project is meant both as an educational resource and a tool to combat cyber bullying.
Louise Phinney

Kids Code the Darndest Things: 10 Amazing Youth Innovators - 0 views

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    Here are 10 youth innovators, from ages seven to 15, particularly worth noting and working on projects ranging from games to anti-bullying apps.
Mary van der Heijden

The Non-Literacy Shed - The Literacy Shed - 0 views

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    I really like the one that could start a bullying conversation
Jeffrey Plaman

Trends in Bullying and PeerVictimization David Finkelhor - 0 views

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    The surveys that reflect change over the longest time periods, going back to the early 1990s, consistently show declines in bul‐ lying and peer victimization, some of it remarkably large. The more recent trends, since 2007, show some declines, but less consistently
Keri-Lee Beasley

Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Article showing that threats to children online have been overblown.  Bullying biggest concern, not sexual solicitation.
Jeffrey Plaman

Faculty of Education - McGill University - What is Cyber-bullying? - 0 views

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    Resource on defining cyberbullying.
Louise Phinney

Cyberproof - 0 views

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    Intermediate level (gr 5-11) resources for anti-bullying including cyberbullying
Keri-Lee Beasley

TAGGED - YouTube - 0 views

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    An 18 min vid about the ethical obligations of going online from the Australian Communications & Media Authority. Includes bullying, sexting, filmed fights & police action.
Keri-Lee Beasley

A Difference: You, Your Kids, and Your Phones - 1 views

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    Digital Citizenship isn't an expression often heard outside of school. The ways in which it's discussed in main stream media are quite different from how it's discussed in schools. Most often the popular press shares sensational negative stories how kids use the internet and their phones to hurt each other. We have to have open and honest conversations about how things can and have gone wrong and what we can do to make things better in the aftermath of things like cyber bullying, online harassment, or sexting. That said, it's a far more powerful message to talk to kids and parents about how engendering empathy helps us understand each other so we choose not to hurt each other. It's also important to share stories and ideas how our modern mobile technologies empower us to effect positive change in the world around us in ways that weren't possible 10 or 15 years ago. We have to move beyond stranger danger and scare tactics. Sharing frightening stories (often overstated) does nothing to model positive outcomes or move the conversation to discussions of how to deal with something gone wrong. Kids need more models of empathy and empowerment. Parents do too.
Jeffrey Plaman

Want to help prevent online bullying? Comment on Facebook | ideas.ted.com - 1 views

  • The positive voices, when there are enough of them, keep abusive ones from spreading, just as a mostly vaccinated population protects those few people who are not. Together, we have the power to protect the most vulnerable among us.
Katie Day

Danah Boyd - Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • By focusing on a range of issues — sexual predation, teenage suicide, bullying, sexting, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual trafficking — Dr. Boyd has shown, often to the dismay of those in the tech community who believe that the Internet is the ultimate equalizer, that issues of race, class and gender persist in the virtual world just as in the real world. The children in families characterized by alcohol and drug abuse, financial stress, divorce and sexual abuse reveal their struggles online just as they do off. “She was the first to say that the teenagers at risk off line are the same ones who are at risk online,” said Alice Marwick, a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft who works closely with Dr. Boyd. “It’s not that the Internet is doing something bad to these kids, it’s that these bad things are in kids’ lives and the Internet is just a component of that.” Most broadly, with troubled teenagers and model youth alike, adolescent online behavior is a reflection of what teenagers’ social lives have always been: friendship, gossip, flirting, transgressing and keeping it all — good and bad — from parents.
Jeffrey Plaman

Cybersmart - Teens - Tagged - 0 views

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    Video resources for eSafety and Digital Citizenship
Keri-Lee Beasley

Dealing With Digital Cruelty - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    How to deal with cruel comments on twitter/blog/youtube
Sean McHugh

The surprising thing Google learned about its employees - and what it means for today's... - 0 views

  • among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise comes in dead last. The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view); having empathy toward and being supportive of one’s colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver; and being able to make connections across complex ideas
  • And topping the list: emotional safety. No bullying. To succeed, each and every team member must feel confident speaking up and making mistakes. They must know they are being heard
  • STEM skills are vital to the world we live in today, but technology alone, as Steve Jobs famously insisted, is not enough. We desperately need the expertise of those who are educated to the human, cultural, and social as well as the computational
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  • No student should be prevented from majoring in an area they love based on a false idea of what they need to succeed
Sean McHugh

The surprising thing Google learned about its employees - and what it means for today's... - 1 views

  • among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise comes in dead last. The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view); having empathy toward and being supportive of one’s colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver; and being able to make connections across complex ideas
  • And topping the list: emotional safety. No bullying. To succeed, each and every team member must feel confident speaking up and making mistakes. They must know they are being heard
  • STEM skills are vital to the world we live in today, but technology alone, as Steve Jobs famously insisted, is not enough. We desperately need the expertise of those who are educated to the human, cultural, and social as well as the computational
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • No student should be prevented from majoring in an area they love based on a false idea of what they need to succeed
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