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Bullying and cyberbullying:a proactive approach to prevent and contrast

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Bullying and cyberbullying:a proactive approach to prevent and contrast

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On 28th May the NUOVA DIREZIONE DIDATTICA has planned a  conference on issues of  bullying and cyberbullying. Our institute is always beware of these topics and since a few years it  promotes some information and training activities for students, parents and teachers, sharing good practices with foreign partners throughout Erasmus projects by means of meetings with  local police and authorities, because it is never too early to talk to primary school children and, by the right approach, also to the smallest ones.
The Seminar speakers were high professional people coming from schools, universities, politics, courts. Within the listeners there were the students of the course “Science of primary education” from the University of L’Aquila.
It was a good chance, both practical and informative, to compare opinions and information between teachers and parents, because it is everyone’s task to engage in the prevention and contrast to bullying and cyberbullying: the Juvenile Court of L’Aquila, the Post  Police, the Guarantor for minors, the Parliamentary Commission for childhood and adolescence, the University  of L’Aquila, the Nuova Direzione Didattica, the Regional Education Department  for Abruzzo,the Lawyers’ Order of Vasto.
We were very proud to present some activities made by our school to share proposals and approaches to the phenomenon.
The recording of the seminar is available on the Facebook page  of our School.

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Children had less and less opportunities to practice sport and meet face to face. most of them said they were using different electronic devices for many hours a day (mobile phones, pc, tablet…) to watch video, chat but especially to play on line videogame: a virtual parallel world, where children spend more and more time finding hobby, fun and a shelter sometimes. But we know very well how it can also hide many risks.
Then, among a lot of issues in the field of civics, we have chosen to deal with “digital citizenship”, suggesting a didactic path to think about Bullying and Cyberbullying through discussions, videos, reading, news articles.
We have worked on three levels:
- Cognitive level: stimulating critical sense;
- Emotional level : promoting emotional awareness and empathy;
- Ethical level: promoting sense of responsibility and justice.
Children were asked to work out again the issues we talked about through a practical activity, as paintings, slogan, comics, leaving them free to express  themselves with fancy and creativity.

In addition, in the classroom, the children created two graphic representations on canvas, using tempera colors.

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The tradizional games, the past ones, allow to develop physical and psychological children abilities: speed, reflexes, precision, coordination, perception of oneself in the space, sense of rhythm and time.

Playing makes them more capable and intelligent.

We taught our children some traditional games as an alternative to online games.

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The artistic activity proposed to children aroused enthusiasm and interest in each of them.

Pupils realized different kinds of painting and everyone made the most of his engagement and creativity, pointing out warning messages.

Art paintings are needed not only to think about the conscious use of the net, but also about the active and responsible role every child has got in order to make internet a safe and positive place.

Painting too can be useful to acquire more consciousness and to make pupils aware of a safe use of  internet.