The Knowledge of Students at Conestoga College on Cyber Bullying

Attention Getter: According to Caralee Adams a school official states in her article Cyberbullying: What teachers and schools can do from the Scholastic Inc. in 2014, “42% of kids have been bullied online—1 in 4 have had it happen more than once”.

Bullying has been an issue that has been on the rise effecting individuals in school settings. The article main focus is bullying, intervention, attitude and behavior. The researchers managed to collect data aimed at short term and long term interventions used to prevent bullying of students at schools. The interventions were put in place by the school officials who were trained in such intervention. There were a controlled group and an experimental group that consists of 454 students from fourth to sixth grade participated in the interventions.

This topic we can perform critique specially since the bullying recently caused youth to attempt suicide. This research will allow the parent to know the different type of bullying including, physically emotionally and verbally. It also teaches the parent about warning sign to check if their child is getting bullied.

Traditional bullying used to be more common back when there was no texting or social media. Bullying consistently takes place in person: the common actions often include teasing, taunting, humiliating, and sometimes showing acts of violence. Cyberbullying takes place online making it more humiliating and intolerable for the victim since the information doesn’t go away. They both equally cause the victim emotional distress and significantly lower their confidence while the bully feels more authoritative and quite satisfied. While the fear of getting bullied grows in the victim, they start to feel unsafe and decide not to go to school. All the students deserve to attend school without the fear of getting humiliated, harassed, or bullied, but what are the bystanders and teachers doing about bullying?

Bullying has been a problem for a very long time; however in these present times bullying is becoming an epidemic. Maybe the reason behind this is the new occurrence of social media in our society, and the new strategies used by bullies to harass there victims. In this report the topics that will be covered are why bullying is an issue to study in human development, describe three components or types of behavior in bullying that are observed by researchers. Explain how gender and sexual orientation that influence the styles of bullying, how bullying affects self-esteem and what affect does the family system have on bullying.

Bullying has been around for several years, now that students have a lot of social media at their fingertips bullying has become more common on this media websites. This is called cyberbullying and in order to stop this schools have to limit their speech. mostly if not every time this bullying occurs it affects their everyday life. A student way not want to come to school because their classmates are bullying them. And because this form of bullying is affecting the student's’ day at school the school should have a right to stop it.

Schools today are constantly updating their code of conduct due to cases involving cyberbullying. The average teenager has a social media account and can easily access the account at any given time. Many teenagers rely on social media for various reasons which then increases the potential for cyber bullying to occur. Cyberbullying can be seen on such media like, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat. Cases of cyberbullying between teenagers have created a great dilemma upon parents and school districts. Since online bullying is not done face to face, the bully feels more daring and aggression towards the victim. Most of these cases have ended in tragedy and were not taken care of correctly by administration at schools. Bullying and harassment

The authors main purpose for this articles analysis conceptualizes school bullying as a social justice issue and explores the concepts of culture-based intolerance and bullying. In the article, the author uses examples of numbers, people dropping out and negative academic challenges to support her objective in the article. Each form of she uses to showcase and support her main point in article provides the reader to insight that helps understand the issue and its effects. The authors’ use of different kinds of English writing concepts helps express and inform reader about her message.

School has finally begun and the vacation is out of the way. But how about the bullies and the concerned victims? Unlike current pupils in today 's society, bullied/cyberbullied victims will never receive a break. As kids we’d say 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt Me. ' But in today 's society? It could possibly too hard to cope with these words, specifically bullied victims.

Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages in an threatening nature or tearing down an individuals character based on religion, gender, ethnicity, or disability. In terms of effects overall, cyberbullying has increased the use of communication via technology and has become more common among teenagers (Cabral 3). Technology has made it easy for bullies to find individuals via social media in the privacy of their on own homes., which has allowed them to express how they feel anonomously. This has become an issue that is occurring more and more in High Schools and Middle Schools across America. One of the biggest discussions when dealing with bullying and cyber-bullying would be how do we stop this epidemic to save the soul of our youth? Education is key, we have to educate one another on the effects of bullying to know that this is real and affects so many people to this day. Much of cyberbullying is the

After the implementation of the strategy, using the post-survey results, the effectiveness of the strategy was evaluated. The efficiency of the strategy was determined, by the percentage of change, if the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of the target group increased by 5%, it indicated that the strategy was effective. However, according to the post-survey results, the strategy was ineffective (refer to Appendix, Figure 4). The post-survey results indicated only 38% of students could correctly classify cyber bullying (Figure 4, Graph 2 in Appendix). In comparison to the pre-survey results, which indicated that only 36% of the students could correctly identify the definition of cyber bullying (refer to Figure 4, Graph 2 in Appendix). Even though, the knowledge of the target group increased by 2%, it does not indicate that the implementation was successful, as it only developed the personal skills of a minority of the target group. In addition, the results of both the pre and post surveys indicated that the knowledge of the target group did not increase nor decrease, indicating that their personal skills were not developed, hence, not creating a supportive environment (online). Furthermore, according to the post-survey results, more than 25% of the students would ignore cyber bullying, an increase of 3% from the pre-survey.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the experiences of adolescents in cyber bullying based on the context of gender. The author says that social economic status appears not to be a factor influencing within cyber bullying. Also, Li explains that cyber bullying has been increasing because the information can be preserved and spread quickly throughout technology.

Furthermore, the perspectives of each party involved during a cyberbullying case was taken into consideration while undergoing this study about numerous Portuguese colleges.

In this newspaper article, the author helps the reader understand and how to treat cyber bullying. The author explains what bullying is and how it is modernized to become cyber bullying. The article informs the reader of main point, in a brief but effective description about recognizing and treating cyber bullying. The author show great statistical research on her topic but not enough the emotional appeal. It provides good use to my research because of the extensive use on how it should be treated.

The following literature review is all about how cyber bullying affects the life of the ones who got bullied, the chances of committing suicide among the victims and the laws in several states regarding cyber bullying.