Is It Cyberbullying?

What is cyberbullying and what can you do to stop it?

Let's face it: Some online spaces can be full of negative, rude, or downright mean behavior. But what counts as cyberbullying? Help your students learn what is -- and what isn't -- cyberbullying, and give them the tools they'll need to combat the problem.

Objectives:

• Recognize similarities and differences between in-person bullying, cyberbullying, and being mean.
• Empathize with the targets of cyberbullying.
• Identify strategies for dealing with cyberbullying and ways they can be an upstander for those being bullied.

Vocabulary 

• bully 
• bullying 
• bystander 
• cyberbullying 
• empathy 
• target 
• upstander

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