Today is stop cyberbullying day, as Laura Blankenship and Will Richardson remind us. Which is a good thing for all sorts of reasons. But since I'm about to fall asleep, I only want to mention one observation here, which is that we need to stop bullying in general. American schools are starting to get serious about this, and it will take years for the effects to propagate. As EduBlog Insights notes, cyberbullying is part of bullying in general.
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April 01, 2007
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I'd like to add my voice in support of your's as well, Bryan.
Cyberbullying is especially hard to keep from happening when compared to the usual school ground variety, but that doesn't mean parents and students alike should stand idly by.
If there's one thing I can't stand it's people not being nice to each other. Sure, there will be arguments and disagreements, but we're all in this together, so we have a responsibility to make it a place worth being together in.
Posted by: Ken | April 01, 2007 at 01:23
Not just American schools either - I ran across an article today about Australian teenagers raping other teens. Though it's not clear that the victim went to school with the perpetrators, the perpetrators did all go to school together. And it looks like cell phone video cameras may have been a contributing factor:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/04/05/recorded.assaults.ap/index.html
Posted by: Ladi | April 05, 2007 at 07:30
Greetings, Ken. Isn't bullying something very different from a disagreement gone nasty? That sounds more like a fight. I don't mean to split hairs, but to try to think through power strategies and differentials.
Good, sad catch, Ladi. If the amount of media producers expands, this sort of thing is bound to happen.
Posted by: Ceredwyn Alexander | April 06, 2007 at 07:05