What can educators do?
- Engage your students in a conversation about how to behave online (Netiquette).
- You can spark a discussion by working with your students to complete a Word
- Scramble and Word Find.
- Monitor computer use and look for children minimizing the screen or laughing a lot while on the computer.
- Create a classroom or school policy that addresses inappropriate computer and cell phone use.
- Keep an anonymous comment box in your classroom where children can report incidents of cyberbullying.
- Complete a Respect Contract with your students.
- Involve children in preventing Cyberbullying through the use of peer counseling.
- Emphasize that silence is not acceptable – encourage children to report Cyberbullying.
- Provide counseling services at school for children involved in Cyberbullying.
- Teach children how to “Take 5” and think before they post.