A.Cyberbullying: Bullying That Occurs Over The Internet

As children reach the age of adolescence in school, they are expose to myriads of peer relations. School is where children start to form their social connections and explore their adolescence stage. As they move through grade levels connecting with their peers by making lifelong friends, and camaraderie with classmates, their social circle begins to increase. However, adolescence is a critical developmental stage in a child’s life, and peer relations can negatively impact the development. Peer relationship is a strong influencer among adolescents. Adolescents is the target of peer influence, and they are the most vulnerable throughout their adolescence years. As children reach their adolescence age, they are influenced by assorted detrimental aspects of peer relations.

Raskauskas and Stoltz (2007) asked a group of 84 adolescents about their involvement in traditional and electronic bullying. The researchers defined electronic bullying as “…a means of bullying in which peers use electronics {such as text messages, emails, and defaming Web sites} to taunt, threaten, harass, and/or intimidate a peer” (p.565). The table below is a frequency table showing the adolescents’ reported incidence of being victims or perpetrators or traditional and electronic bullying.

In consideration, the first reason that students have a difficult time attending public high school or coping with the high school processes is because of after school extra-curricular activities, such as sports or dance classes. Since my friends and I dance many hours a week, most of the people at my studio do online high school. If we did not have online high school, most of the girls would be late to classes or not be able to come. Some of the girls in my dressing room (a specific dressing room for people who have to get to dance earlier) are still in the 8th grade, which means they do not end until 2:45 or 3:30 at a public school. They are always complaining about how much homework they have to finish on time before the next day, or how late they go to bed to finish the homework. They wish they could work online, but their parents will not let them. If they did not have an option of online high school, which has more work than middle school, then there would be a lot of tired dancers waltzing around the studio and hurting themselves. If we did not have young dancers going to class on time or at all, then there would be a decrease in adult dancers and dancers on Broadway. If we had a decrease in adult dancers, for example, ballet dancers, then many famous dance companies would shut down, and there would not be many people on Broadway.

It is important to understand that technology has been the main source for these bullies to go from traditional bullying to cyber-bullying. Today, there is a significant changed because now teenagers own a device and have easy access to the use of technology. According to the Family Community Health (Kiriakidis & Kavoura, Volume 33, 2010) it is stated, “these methods of communication cannot always be monitored by parents who may not be as capable as their children in using information technology.” Technology has improved on many aspects over the last decade because before not many teenagers owned a phone nor did had easy access to the Internet. Teenagers have been known to be the victims of others to any type of harassment; through social media sources such as Facebook, Snap chat, Instagram and Twitter. The easy access of Internet has been the main reason in why this issue has evolved over the last two decades. According to the Universal Journal of Educational Research (Notar, Padgett, Roden Volume 1, 2011) “more than 97% of youths in the United States are connected to the Internet in some way. The number of children and teens who use the Internet at home is rapidly growing, with now over 66% of fourth to ninth graders able to go online from the comfort of their bedrooms.” It is clear that technology amongst teenagers and children has escalated tremendously over the last decade. The types of cyber bullying are harassment, flaming, exclusion, outing and masquerading. The easy

According to a study done by the University of British Columbia about 25 to 30 percent of adolescents have admitted to taking part of or experiencing cyberbullying and a staggering 95 percent of adolescents claimed that what happened online was meant to to be a joke and not harmful. Rather than traditional bullying that have characteristics like aggression, a need for power/control, and proactively targeting the victim cyberbullying does not. Research shows that cyberbullying is done impulsively this is why there has been such a quick rise of this form of bullying. Cyberbullying also affects victims differently. Where as traditional bullying ends when the victim leaves school cyberbullying follows the victim in their personal life. This often leads to the victim being forced to deal with it alone because it is a part of their personal social

Recent statistics on bullying show an increase in the occurrence of cyber bullying; especially among youths and young adults (Bullying Statistics, 2009). The American Justice Department reported the following: approximately 42 percent of youths have reported being bullied online, 35 percent have reported being threatened online, 46 percent of males have reported physical bullying or altercations, and the same was reported by 26 percent of females, and statistics have shown that approximately one in four adolescents will experience a form of

Currently there are several formats of bullying in the society. Bullying is repeated verbal, physical, social or psychological behaviour that is harmful and involves the misuse of power by an individual or group towards one or more persons. (NSW Public Schools, n.d.) "Cyber bullying" is that bullying that uses electronic devices such as mobile phones and laptops or Internet to intentionally harass people or being aggressive with verbal abuse. Most of cyber bullying occurs through messages, SNS (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) and random chatting sites. And the reason is because in Internet or website,

Those who have bullied someone via the internet or mobile phone in the recent past often tends to be a young adolescent. These young adolescents also tend to be the victims and bystanders of cyberbullying, and are often the oppressor in traditional bullying. However, cyberbullying tends to be more manifested in middle schools, compared to upper secondary schools such as high schools and universities. Cyberbullying generally impacts its victims in a negative way, and unfortunately, cyber victims often choose not to tell anyone of their experiences brought upon by cyberbullying. With that being

Social media is a way a person can stay connected to the world by a click of a button. But with the privilege to have access to such advanced technology comes responsibility and those people who abuse the right and take advantage of others via social media. In today’s society cyber bullying is discussed in the realm of the action taking place and the effect that it has on a victim and how people can step in and make a change in the fight against bullying. Cyber bullying is using any electronic communication system to hurt, harm, or belittle someone in a threatening or shameful manner. This topic is of importance because this is very relevant for the teenage group. Discussing in details the death ratio resulting from being a victim of cyber bullying also finding actual stories of victims who have been through that nightmare of depression conveying the truth behind the horror. Bullying is a character killer, in order to raise awareness research equipped with professional insight and victim testimony will unveil the truths of this demon and show that web us is a privilege and people need not use and abuse it for self-entertainment disregarding people’s feelings. Cyber Bullying is all around the modern technological world and the little actions accumulate and the people of the community need to have the knowledge to react, counsel, and end bullying; speak up and stand up for what is right and just.

The observation was conducted at *** in an special education math class. The students were 8th grade students with learning disabilities who needed support in the field on mathematics. The classroom consisted on the special education teacher, the classroom aide, and ** students. When I walked inside the classroom, all the student had their desk facing the front of the classroom. The teacher instructed for the students to take out their chromebooks because students were beginning to become exposed to a new testing program. Ms. ** was clear in letting students know of the new program they were going to be using and to focus on the tools the program gives them to work with and how to save their answers along the process. All students were given sufficient time to walk through the new program and to ask questions on how to complete a specific task. When their time was complete, students moved on to being introduced to slope-intercept form. Students were given a video to watch to give them an over view of what it was, but also as an introduction to the new material. Ms. * exposed to the students multiple times to the material by showing students how to do it, allowing them to do it on their own, and working in groups to solve the problem. During the period the * students were with Ms. * they had the opportunity to have multiple exposure to the new material they were learning.

Bullying is a bad thing but the worst of all the types of bullying is cyber bulling, it is a terrible weapon that can destroy someone's life and reputation. Cyber bullying is a part of bullying in which a person torments or harasses other people in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner, with technology. It has had a much greater effect on the world more than the traditional way of bullying.

Over the years, the education system has changed. The development of society has led to many of its aspects facing alterations in order for it to properly adapt. Regardless, society has not resolved all the problems that exist within the school system. A myriad of issues remain, particularly in high school. High school students typically lack interest in school, yet find interest in school sports, television, current events, or any other similar items and ideas, placing their focus there rather than on their classes.

In my Language Arts and History classes, there are predictable groups of students who finish tasks early or late, while the bulk of the students finish at the same rate. For the most part, the early finishers are gifted students who are hungry for a challenge which goes beyond the regular assignment. Many of my slow finishers are also learning disabled; they often struggle with reading comprehension and/or writing. The Iris reading’s discussion of flexible groupings, where assignments are varied to provide

According to Teens Take Stand on Bullying, among the students who claimed they were frequently bullied in school, about 30% reported they were depressed, and 11% reported serious thoughts of suicide and suicide attempts. Bullying occurs everywhere; in school, the workplace and even at home among families. Bullying is defined as making someone feel less about who they are as a person thus resulting with the individual feeling helpless. Many victims of bullying end up expressing their pain through self injury. Although there are many forms of bullying such as cyberbullying, verbal bullying, and physical bullying they all have the same effect emotionally and physically.

“So often educators only look at a students ' ability level when predicting achievement, ignoring that the efficacies of these students play an influential role also” (Scott, 1996, p.197).