C YBER B ULLYING What is Cyber Bullying? For Elementary Students Teaching Resource

W HAT DO YOU DO ON THE COMPUTER ? Play Games Watch favourite T.V. shows Listen to music Look up pictures on Google Talk to friends and family Do Homework

D EFINE What does Social mean? Are you social at school? Are you social on the school bus? Are you social on the computer? Being in a group, talking to people, you enjoy being with people. What is a network? Connections Arrangements Chain Meet

W HAT ARE S OCIAL N ETWORKS ? Facebook Twitter Chat Rooms Windows Messenger (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, msn, school) Blogs

H OW DO PEOPLE GET HURT ? Falling down Getting hit by someone or something If someone says something mean about you When someone says something mean about you do your feelings get hurt? Do words hurt people? YES! Why?

H OW DO PEOPLE GET HURT ? Words can hurt people, can you hurt someone when you are talking to them on the computer? How? ing them a mean message that hurts their feelings. Writing something on your facebook wall that everyone can see. Breaking into someone else’s account and sending s. Writing hurtful messages in a chat room.

W HAT DO YOU THINK C YBER B ULLYING M EANS ? Cyber- online, computers. Have you ever heard of Cyber Space? The computer world or chatting to friends on line. Bully- Someone who is mean, picks on people, makes people feel sad or angry.

W HAT IS C YBER B ULLYING ? If you know what cyber means and what bully means, what do you think cyber bullying means? A bully using the computer? Someone hurting someone else’s feelings with a computer? Someone saying mean things to someone else on the computer? Cyber Bullying is when a child embarrasses, threatens or hurts another child’s feelings online.

W HY WOULD YOU CYBER BULLY SOMEONE ? You are mad at them. You think it would be funny to embarrass someone on the internet. You want them to feel sad and angry. You are bored. You want to get back at them for something they did to you.

W HAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP ? Being mean to people is not funny. You must always think of what you are doing before you do it, because you cannot take it back. Do not use the internet when you are mad at someone. Anything that happens on the internet is always there, just because you can’t see it, does not mean it is gone. Feelings are important, you must RESPECT other people’s feelings.