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The Cyberbullying Research Center is dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents. Cyberbullying can be defined as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices." What's Trending Now: school climate | off-campus | parents | sexting | cell phones | facebook | laws Updated as of April 2012 - Bullying and Cyberbullying Laws Fact Sheet New Resources! Preventing Cyberbullying: Top Ten Tips for Teens and Responding to Cyberbullying: Top Ten Tips for Teens Summary Fact Sheet - Cyberbullying: Identification, Prevention, and Response. If you only have time to read one of our publications to get up-to-speed about the problem and what you can do, read this one! Cyberbullying Research Center Blog
May 9: Guidelines for updating your school's social networking policy
As a followup to our last blog post, wed like to share some more guidance to keep in mind as you are updating and refining your schools policy related to Facebook (and other social networking sites). We hope this is helpful for you. Please remember, though, that you must do a lot more than policy enhancements to be in compliance with the FCCs new mandates, and to make a meaningful difference in protecting students and avoiding liability issues. Thanks again to May 7: Public schools, Facebook, and the FCC Our colleague Mike Donlin and I have been talking out some issues related to public education and teen technology use. He has recently pointed out that there are certain points that the FCC would like schools to know as it relates to their intersection with and use of social networking sites. Specifically, schools need to be very familiar with the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, and that it: 1. Adds statutory language to existing FCC rules for implementing the Childrens ... May 1: Cyberbullying Your Own Kids to Punish Them Canadian Cyberbullying Educator and Speaker Lissa Albert and I have been chatting about some parents engaging in controversial and arguably questionable behavior to "send a message" to their teenagers about appropriate and inappropriate behavior. These instances have gone viral, and Lissa has done a great job of providing a backdrop of this practice as well as detailing why we just don't support these kinds of responses. Her writeup is below - I encourage you to share with us your thoughts. Also, feel free to contact her with any ... April 26: School Climate 2.0: Preventing Cyberbullying and Sexting One Classroom at a Time We've been discussing the importance of school climate as it relates to bullying and cyberbullying quite a bit on this blog (see here and here for examples). Well, we just published a whole book on the topic! School Climate 2.0: Preventing Cyberbullying and Sexting is now in print and available from the April 4: How Many Teens are Actually Involved in Cyberbullying? Estimates of the number of teens who have experienced cyberbullying are all over the map. I can point you to a paper published in a peer-reviewed academic journal that says that 72% of students have been cyberbullied while another published study puts the number at 5.5%. The numbers are similarly varied when it comes to the number of students who have cyberbullied others. So how many teens have been involved? Last summer we reviewed all of the published papers on cyberbullying to try to get a handle on this question. These results were published in our book
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"I enjoyed your cyberbullying workshop in North Carolina today. It was very well organized, clear, and reflected your obviously extensive knowledge of the subject. You also responded to questions very sensitively, and I was particularly impressed with how respectfully you interacted with [a sixteen-year-old in the audience]. As I told you at the end, of the hundreds of professional presentations I've heard in my 37 year career, yours was clearly in the top 5%. I've also ordered your book and look forward to learning more about this important subject." C. Drew Edwards, PhD, ABPP, Clinical Child Psychologist and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, Wake Forest University
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