Today we live in a wired culture filled with a wealth of information at all levels, but this electronic bounty carries potential hazards, including cyberbullying. This course provides an easy-to-understand introduction on cyber kids, cyberbullying, cyber balance, and how to deal with this technology-driven culture related to students. It emphasizes prevention, assessment, and intervention as well as evaluation. In addition, this course provides a proactive guide for busy educational professionals that offers techniques, reproducible materials, activities, and legal guidelines to help today’s tech-savvy students make balanced choices about using technology to boost student learning, improve school climate, and prevent cyberbullying.
Whether you are a teacher, administrator, counselor, or educational consultant, you will benefit from the outstanding research and experience of the highly-respected experts, Barbara C. Trolley, Ph. D., Constance Hanel, and Elizabeth K. Englander. Their extensive backgrounds offer recommendations for the prevention and intervention of cyber kids, cyberbullying, and cyber balance. It is presented in a clear, programmatic way that includes real-life stories, which dramatically illustrate both the dangers and benefits of technology, that will better equip you to help your students succeed in today’s wired culture both in and out of school. Educators will benefit from this practical information that contains an abundance of reproducible materials, including student assessments, incident reports, activities, and school evaluations. In addition, the course consists of legal guidelines that incorporate an acceptable use policy.
This comprehensive the education professional the accessible and proactive strategies they need to assist students and their families dealing with today’s wired culture. In addition, this comprehensive overview of cyber kids, cyberbullying, and cyber balance is presented in a user-friendly format that will allow you to put this information into practice within your classroom, subject area, and school.
This course is applicable towards the following certificate:
*School Culture and Violence
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