REQUIRED TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY ACTIVITY
Unit: ‘Ike Pono (Technology Advisory Activity)
Title: Cyberbullying
Duration: 2 Advisory periods
Rationale: Bullying is no longer about the strong picking on the weak in the schoolyard. The physical assault has been replaced by a 24 hour per day, seven days a week online bashing. Savvy students are using Instant Messaging, e-mails, chat rooms and websites they create to humiliate a peer. No longer can parents count on seeing the telltale physical signs of bullying—a black eye, bloody lip, torn clothes. But the damage done by cyber bullies is no less real, and can be infinitely more painful.
Some Cyber Bullying Statistics:
* 42% of kids have been bullied while online. 1 in 4 have had it happen more than once.
* 35% of kids have been threatened online. Nearly 1 in 5 have had it happen more than
once.
* 21% of kids have received mean or threatening e-mail or other messages.
* 58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online. More than 4 out of 10 say it has happened more than once.
* 53% of kids admit having said something mean or hurtful to another person online. More than 1 in 3 have done it more than once.
* 58% have not told their parents or an adult about something mean or hurtful that happened to them online.
Based on 2004 i-SAFE survey of 1,500 students grades 4-8
Procedure:
- Announce that today haumäna will be learning about cyberbullying.
- Define cyberbullying for haumäna:
- Project the following website on the board, email tohaumäna, or post on your BB course:
- Ask haumänato log onto the site and play the video.
- After the video portion, ask haumänato click on “Take the Quiz”. Next, click on “Graded Quiz”. Haumänashould complete the ten question quiz.
- Haumäna should click on “View Your Results” to see their score. Haumäna must pass with a perfect score. If a haumänareceived a perfect score, they should show their kumu their screen closing the browser window.
- If a haumänadid not pass with a perfect score, they should click on “Review Your Answers”, then take the quiz again. Once they pass with a perfect score, they should show the kumu their computer screen to verify the score.
- After all haumänahave successfully completed the quiz, pose the following scenarios and follow-up questions to haumäna:
•Krissy and Megan are friends at school. Krissy tells Megan that she doesn’t want to hang out with her any more. Megan is angry and upset. She uploads
a photo of Krissy from her cell phone that was taken at a slumber party two weeks
earlier. Megan sends the photo to everyone on her buddy list with a message
attached: “Krissy is such a ****.”
-How do you think Krissy felt?
-What might the kids that received the email think/do?
-What should Krissy do?
•Wanda is different from a lot of her peers and gets teased often. She begins receiving IMs (instant messages) and text messages during the day and night. The word loser is in most of them. Wanda thinks she knows who is behind the messages: Alexis, the most popular girl in the eighth grade. To get back at Alexis, Wanda sends her this message: I’m going kick your *** for doing this. Your friends, too.
-How do you think Wanda feels? Why does she feel this way?
-How do you think Alexis felt when she received Wanda’s message?
-What should Alexis do?
-What could Wanda have done differently?
-If any other students knew about the messages Wanda was receiving, what could they have done?
•How do the following ‘ölelono‘eau relate to the issue of “cyberbullying”?
'A'ohehanaineleikauku.
No deed lacks a reward.
Every deed, good or bad, receives its just reward.
‘O kaponokehana `ia a ihomainälani.
Continue to do good until the Heavens come down to you.
Blessings come to those who persist in doing good.
9.Remind haumänathat they are blessed with a powerful educational tool-a Mac laptop-but with this blessing also comes a kuleana to use it appropriately and responsibly.
Sources:
"Cyberbullying." Make a Difference for Kids, Inc. 17 Feb. 2009
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Cyberbullying research, stories, cases, downloads, fact sheets, tips and strategies, news headlines, a
blog, and a number of other helpful resources. 17 Feb. 2009
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CyberSmart! Student Curriculum. Web. 03 Apr. 2010. <
I-SAFE Inc. 17 Feb. 2009
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MindOH! - Tools to Stop Bullying and School Violence using Interactive. 17 Feb. 2009
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Pukui, Mary Kawena. 'OleloNo'eau: Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings. Honolulu, Hawai'i:
Bishop Museum, 1983. Print.
Suggested Advisory Activity
Lesson Title: ‘Ike Pono Activity (to know what is right; integrity)
Background information: ‘Ike Pono is one of those words that is hard to define. The simpler way to define it would be to know what to do and to know what is right, all the time. Not just when someone is looking or when you have to. It is talking the talk AND walking the walk. You match what you do to what you believe.
Character Dilemmas: You can use the following topics for journaling or writing essays, for discussion, debate, role-playing, reflection, etc.
Suppose that…..
1. Your friend Keoni is popular, well liked, and a great soccer player. Your schoolÿs soccer team is competing for first place in the state competition, and Keoni is the key to winning. During Mr. Mikeÿs math class this morning, you saw him cheat on an important test. No one else noticed. If Mr. Mike found out, Keoni would be kicked off the soccer team. Is it your kuleana to report what you saw? Is it anyoneÿskuleana? How does this relate to the Statement of Appreciation and Honor Code? What are the consequences of reporting? What might be the consequences of not reporting?
2. Youÿre paying for school supplies at the bookstore. When Aunty rings up your purchases, she undercharges you $10 by mistake. You could call it to her attention….or you could donate the $10 to a local homeless shelter youÿve been helping. You wouldnÿt be keeping the money for yourself, and the shelter needs it more than the book store, right now…….right? Do you put the $10 in your wallet and leave? Why or why not?
3. A friend asks you to trade shirts for a day. The style and color of your friendÿs shirt makes it look like a gang shirt. You donÿt like gangs, and you donÿt want anyone to think youÿre in a gang, but your friend is being very persuasive. If you say no, heÿll accuse you of being a coward and broadcast it to the whole school. It probably wouldnÿt hurt to wear the shirt for just one day. If anyone thinks youÿre in a gang, thatÿstheir problem for being judgemental. Do you agree to the trade? How might you handle this situation with integrity?
4. Someone you know is always true to her beliefs. She believes in cheating, lying, backstabbing, and putting herself first, and thatÿs what people can count on her to do. Does this person have integrity? Or does having integrity mean being true to the right values? Who decides which values are right and which are wrong?
5. You are babysitting for a neighbor whoÿs told you NOT to have your friends over when you babysit. Around 10:00, two of your friends show up, uninvited. The kids are in bed asleep, so you let them in. One friend spills his root beer on the carpet, so you make them both leave. You scrub the carpet and manage to remove the stain. Do you need to tell your neighbor that you let your friends inside their home? After all, you sent them home. The stain is gone. Your neighbor will never know they were even there. If she did, she might never trust you to babysit again. What would you do? What should you do?
Debrief:
1.Can you think of other situations like these? Share with your advisory.
2.How do these situations relate to KeAlaPono? The Statement of Appreciation? Honor Code?
Lewis, Barbara. What Do You Stand For? A Kids’ Guide to Building Character.