Journal 4

Pick one of the social challenges and give as many ideas as you can for how a teacher could address its effects in his or her classroom.

Journal Reflection 4

Cyber bullying

Cyber bullying is the use of technology to harass and belittle a person. Cyber bullying is a major area of concern in schools.  All students are faced with this at some point in their lives. There are students who are being targeted by fellow classmates through text messages, emails, or websites.  Nowadays the majority of students have a cell phone or access to the internet.  There are students that get targeted for a majority of reasons.  Some of the reasons they get bullied include, religion, ethnicity, the way they look, who their family is, among countless other reasons.     Students end up not wanting to go to school because they are afraid of their bullies.  This will prevent them from getting a good education in the classroom setting.  There are other more severe consequences to bullying such as, suicide.  This could be easily prevented.  I believe that schools should be implementing anti-bullying campaigns so that the students are aware of the dangers of cyber bullying and pick up on any signs that someone might be going through it. Administration and teachers should also have a huge role in addressing this issue Another thing that they should do is show videos on the effects of cyber bullying and show real cases and what they outcomes were.  This will hopefully deter students to become the bullies.   They need to be aware of the signs that this might be happening to a student and get them help right away.  They need to make the students feel like they can trust them.  Consequences to these actions should also be published in the code of conduct.  The teachers should not tolerate any bullying in their classrooms because that would just make the bully think that his/her actions are perfectly alright and he/she will not have any consequences to their actions.