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Activity

Cyber Bullying

Key Learning

Students will gain a deeper understanding about the importance of the bystander in the context of cyberbullying.

|The Australian Curriculum | | |

|Information & communication technology | |Ethical understanding |

|Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT – | |Exploring values, rights and responsibilities – level 4 |

|level 4 | |Examine values |

|Identify the impacts of ICT in society | |Explore rights and responsibilities |

|Apply digital information security practices | | |

|Apply personal security protocols | |Reasoning in decision making and actions – level 4 |

|Communicating with ICT – level 4 | |Reflect on ethical action |

|Collaborate, share and exchange | |Consider consequences |

|Understand computer mediated communications | |Reason and make ethical decisions |

| | | |

|ICT – learning continuum | |Ethical Understanding – learning continuum |

Discussion Questions

1. Discuss the issues raised in the Cyber Bullying story with another student.

2. Approximately how many Australian students are affected by cyber bullying?

a. 1 in 10

b. 1 in 50

c. 1 in 100

3. Describe what a bystander is?

4. Bystanders can help stop bullying behaviour. True or false?

5. List some examples of cyber bullying.

6. Who is the ambassador for the Australian Human Rights Commission BackMeUp campaign?

7. Think of some ways that a bystander can help someone that is being cyber bullied?

8. How did this story make you feel?

9. What do you understand more clearly since watching this story?

10. Watch one of the videos made by kids as part of the anti-bullying BackMeUp campaign. What message were they trying to convey in their story?

Activities

|True or false? |

Hold a True or False quiz with your class and follow up each statement with a discussion about the impact of cyberbullying.

|Cyberbullying quiz – True or false? |

|Cyberbullying only occurs at school |False |Cyberbullying can take place at any time and intrude into spaces that were previously |

| | |regarded as safe or personal. |

|Cyberbullying can be witnessed by a |True |The difficulty of controlling electronically circulated messages means the scale and |

|lot of people very quickly | |scope of cyberbullying can be greater than for other forms of bullying. Electronically|

| | |forwarded content is hard to control, and the worry of content resurfacing can make it|

| | |difficult for targets to move on. Also, a single incident can comprise multiple |

| | |attacks, where one image is viewed numerous times. |

|People who cyberbully may attempt to |True |The bully may never be in the same physical space as the target. Not knowing the |

|remain anonymous | |identity of the bully can make the target distrustful of many people. The target may |

| | |not even be aware that, for example, electronic material is being circulated. |

|Only kids experience cyberbullying |False |Cyberbullying can take place both between peers and across generations. As the film |

| | |shows, teachers too are being the target of cyberbullying which can have devastating |

| | |effects and is totally unacceptable. |

|Some cyberbullying is unintentional |True |It can be the result of not thinking (for example, something sent as a joke may be |

| | |deeply upsetting or offensive to the recipient) or a lack of awareness of the |

| | |consequences (for example, someone saying something negative online about another |

| | |student or friend, without expecting it to be forwarded or viewed outside the |

| | |immediate group). |

|The bystander |

Did you know that a bystander can take safe effective action to support victims of cyberbullying?

• As a class watch some of the winning videos that were made by kids for the BackMeUp project.

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• After watching one or more of the BackMeUp videos facilitate a class discussion about the role of the bystander. Use some of the following discussion questions.

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Further investigation

Sign up your school to participate in Cybersmart Hero an interactive online activity where students play the role of a bystander who becomes aware of a cyberbullying problem at school.



|What can you do? |

Provide students with the opportunity to have a positive impact in their school community. BackMeUp has some useful and empowering ways that can help kids make a difference.

• Write the following actions on your classroom whiteboard –speak up, be supportive, talk to someone and check it.

• Starting with the action Speak up, ask students to think of realistic and practical things that students and teachers can do to back up someone that is being cyberbullied. Continue brainstorming for the remaining actions.

• Alternatively, instead of working as class, divide the class into 4 groups and assign one of the action topics to each group.

Refer to the BackMeUp website for useful tips

• Discuss with students how they will present their work to help raise awareness in their school community. For example you could produce weekly tips in poster format to put up around the school.

Here are some tips from the Kids Helpline

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( Related Research Links

ABC Compass – Beating Cyberbullying



Project Rockit – Project Rockit



Australian Human Rights Commission – BackMeUp



CyberSmart – Let’s Fight it Together



CyberSmart – Cyberbullying



Kids Helpline – What is cyberbullying all about?



Human Rights Commission – Cyberbullying and the bystander



Reach out – Bystanders role in cyberbullying



Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy – Talk, Report, Learn



ABC 7.30 – Anti-bullying dance production packs a punch



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Episode 9

2nd April 2013

What can you do?

Speak up

Be supportive

Talk to someone

Check it

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Discussion questions

• What is a bystander?

• Who are bystanders?

• What makes someone a bystander?

• What is a hurtful bystander?

• Did you know that bystanders can influence bullying behaviour? Explain your answer.

• What is a helpful bystander?

• What can bystanders do to help someone being bullied?

• What do you think is meant by the phrase – ”Back me up. Don’t stand by. It could be you”

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