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Group leader's guide to activities for enhancing adolescent awareness of cyberbullying dangers

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Group leader's guide to activities for enhancing adolescent awareness of cyberbullying dangers

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This resource has games and activities for groups that help adolescents understand what cyberbullying is, how to behave online, and how to remain safe. The activities are designed to help students reflect on their own attitude and behavior, while providing skills and knowledge to stay protected in a digital world.

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This video can be shown to the group during a session to initiate discussion about the deceptions on social media.  It will help students realize that not everything they see people doing online, is true or accurate.  Many times adolescents compare their lives to those of others, feeling left out, or inadequate when they see idealistic posts online.  The leader can ask members to discuss strategies for living more in the moment, and not working to create insta-worthy posts to make themselves, or their lives appear a certain way.
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Are You Living an Insta Lie? Social Media Vs. Reality

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[DitchtheLabelORG].  (2017, February 20).  Are You Living an Insta Lie?  Social Media Vs. Reality [Video file].  Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EFHbruKEmw

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This activity is a creative way to bring closure to a group. It involves having students write down what they learned on a piece of paper, then wading it up. On the leader's cue, the students  throw their paper snowballs in the air. Then, each member picks up a nearby response and reads it aloud.

It's important to have closure to end the session, and the group as a whole, and should have a lasting impression on members.  According to Finley (2015), students find closure helpful for

Summarizing, reviewing, and demonstrating their understanding of major points

Consolidating and internalizing key information

Linking ideas to a conceptual framework and/or previously-learned knowledge

Transferring ideas to new situations

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Adobe (2019). [Digital Image].  Retrieved from https://news.yale.edu/2017/04/26/overhand-or-underhand-fast-or-slow-study-explores-optimal-throwing-strategies

Finley, T. (2015, December 15).  22 Powerful Closure Activities [Blog Post].  Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/22-powerful-closure-activities-todd-finley

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This activity allows for students to work in groups and share ideas on how to be (and put forth) their best digital selves.  Each pair/group will respond to the specific prompt to create one piece of the poster/puzzle.  After every pairing completes their task, the whole group will reassemble to put the ideas together for the collective piece to be formed.  Creating this poster can be an important assessment piece for the facilitator and provide a great point of reference for the group sessions that follow.  Moreover, group members would have the opportunity to gain each other’s perspectives and begin the work of building the necessary cohesion and trust that will allow the group to thrive, all while applying their ideas/thoughts towards maintain a productive social media presence.

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This activity has a designed set of “dilemmas” to create an open forum of discussion on social media issues.  It can easily be adapted to address the appropriate context, developmental, social/emotional level of middle school learners.  Additionally, it can provide several opportunities for the young group members to drive the group session and engage in honest, open conversation.  Activities such as this could inform the group leader, as far as planning and what needs to be addressed – moving forward – or what aspects of cyber-social situations require more attention.

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This video presents teenagers discussing the pros and cons of utilizing social media applications.  Each young man and woman candidly reveals experiences and moments, which they have personally observed via the access of different social media platforms.  This video is a great piece that brings up various, significant points of discussion for the group sessions.  It can help group members to easily identify with stories and ease into the forum of the group setting, without having to initiate those conversations on their own.

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Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences

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Common Sense Media. (2018, September 10). Social media, social life: Teens reveal their experiences [Video file]. Retrieved from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGGDfciqyvw

[Digital Image of 12 cyber dilemmas to get teens talking]. Retrieved from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/412994228321326046/

Free Spirit Publshing Blog. (2016). 12 cyber dilemmas to get teens talking [web log comment]. Retrieved from

https://freespiritpublishingblog.com/2016/04/26/12-cyber-dilemmas-to-get-teens-talking/amp/

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Incorporating Digital Citizenship Into The Everyday Curriculum

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Incorporating Digital Citizenship Into The Everyday Curriculum

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This article details a “Netiquette”/Digital Citizenship Project that functions as a mentoring program for middle school students.  It presents a blog-based communication class that has since been adopted as a part of schools’ curricula.  It is set up as a peer mediation program from middle school learners to message high school students, sharing scenarios that have played out in technology-based environments, to seek advice on becoming a responsible digital citizen from their “cyber mentors.  This can be a daunting operation but one that has the potential for superior implications, if the collaboration falls into place effectively.  Nonetheless, the concepts supplied throughout the article can inform numerous activities for a social media-based group experience.

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[Digital Image of Digital Citizenship Poster]. Retrieved from https://www.erintegration.com/2017/02/21/digital-citizenship-all-year/

Knight, D. (n.d.). Be your best digital self. Retrieved from https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/DIGITAL-CITIZENSHIP-WRITING-ACTIVITY-POSTER-GROUP-COLLABORATION-PROJECT-3007265

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Orech, J. (2012). How it’s done: incorporating Digital Citizenship into your

everyday curriculum. Technology & Learning, (1), 16. Retrieved from https://eds-a-ebscohost-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=adc708d2-3d6f-4552-8b86-b582e6685630%40sdc-v-sessmgr04

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This activity involves providing sample social media posts and scenarios to students and asking them to evaluate and determine if they are safe, and appropriate, to post. This encourages open discussion of ideas, generates healthy thought processes, and promotes open dialogue. It fosters safe social media practices and gives students an opportunity to apply their group developed skills.

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Best Practices Around Social Media Safety

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Best Practices Around Social Media Safety

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This article discusses the importance of parents’ and educators’ intentionality when engaging our youth in conversations regarding social media use as well as texting.  The authors present the permanency of “posted” online content and offer the efficacy of utilizing filters to provide some protection from what young learners can access.  This is a critical piece that can both inform this specific activity and serve as information to offer to parents, in order to implement and reinforce such conversations outside of the school place.  The authors understand the potential of social media use/communication as an asset but they also realize the need for safeguards against the totality of its access.

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Why is an ice breaker/opening activity important?

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Why is an ice breaker/opening activity important?

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An opening activity, or ice breaker, that is done effectively can welcome group members and warm up the conversation. They should be fun, engaging, and involve all participants. They can be especially useful with adolescents who may be engaged in a group for the first time, feeling shy or apprehensive, and are looking for ways to connect.

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Gonzales, L. (2017). Best practices around social media safety. Tech & Learning,

(7), 29. Retrieved from

https://eds-a-ebscohost-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/eds/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=cb3b3508-f4ac-42eb-b041-50fc930b5e88%40sessionmgr4008&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=edsgcl.488965839&db=edsgea

[Keri].  (n.d).  Social Media Safety [Pinterest Post].  Retrieved January 23, 2018, from https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Social-Media-Safety-Classroom-Guidance-Lesson-for-School-Counseling-2975081

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Students must have a working knowledge of why a group on social media is useful and applicable to their lives.  This resource describes how social media and the use of technology are completely integrated into our global culture, and the implications it has on our youth.  Constant connectivity can actually cause mind-altering changes to occur, especially in young brains that are still developing.  Increased awareness of this issue, by students and helping professionals, is essential in understanding its effects.
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An example of an opening activity that could be used with middle school learners is “the feelings game” (Pinterest Post, 2018).  First, the leader hands out a designated number of skittles candy.  Then, the group facilitator assigns each color to a feeling and asks the student to describe an associated feeling.  For example:

red skittles = one thing that makes you happy

orange skittles = one thing that makes you sad

green skittles = one thing that makes you angry

yellow skittles = one thing that makes you excited

purple skittles = one thing that makes you afraid.

This opening/icebreaker activity, appropriate for middle school students, could be a fun, creative, and lighthearted way for students to connect to one another and to the group facilitator (Sink, Edwards, & Eppler, 2012) as individuals. It's important to remember that students might not yet feel comfortable within the group and can opt to pass if they do not want to share.

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After breaking the ice, the leader could encourage all students to write down five to eight words that come to mind when thinking about social media. If time allows, the leader could allow each student to share them out loud and type them into the wordle website. If time does not allow, this is how the next session would start. A word cloud like the one below would be generated by the website. This could stay up on the board as a visual throughout the group and allow the group leader and members to discuss the topics that came up frequently.
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wordle Is a website that combines vocabulary for all types of clouds in both Thai and Thai languages

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HOME - wordle Is a website that combines vocabulary for all types of clouds in both Thai and Thai languages

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Wordle is a wizard. "word cloud" from text as typed by the user The prominence of the cloud depends on the words that appear frequently in the original text. which can customize the characters according to the desired style, such as fonts, layout styles and font color Images created through Wordle can be used in...

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[Digital Social Media Wordle] (2018). Retrieved from https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj974afgI7fAhUhUt8KHQs6BlYQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.actionhealthinc.org%2Fthe-importance-of-social-media%2F&psig=AOvVaw2KdlAGD6PrsdxFOF7JWERf&ust=1544281798310758

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Lichert, S. (2018).  Icebreakers: Why are they important? [Blog Post].  Retrieved from https://swiftkickhq.com/icebreakers-why-important/

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Sink, C. A., Edwards, C., & Eppler, C. (2012). School based group counseling. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole

The Feelings Game. (n.d.) [Pinterest Post].  Retrieved December 22, 2018 from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/86694361556803197/

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This video is a news story discussing how some Harvard students were denied admission due to content on their personal Facebook pages. 

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This video is a news story discussing how some Harvard students were denied admission due to content on their personal Facebook pages. 

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This document could be used to help organize a group leader to walk the group through discussion.

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For More Info Regarding Cyber Bullying, visit HOMEROOM

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For More Info Regarding Cyber Bullying, visit HOMEROOM

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This official blog of the U.S. Department of Education is a phenomenal daily/weekly read that provides a wealth of ideas, plans, and resources, with the research to back it.  It truly supplies something for everyone that works in a school building and can specifically help to inform a school counselor’s duty, in working towards the continued support of developing learners.

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Recently I had the honor of speaking alongside First Lady Melania Trump, federal colleagues, academics and researchers, private firms and students at the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summit on Cyberbullying hosted at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The First Lady opened the event and shared her passion and focus on protecting children, especially through online platforms. She highlighted the efforts of her "Be Best" Campaign, which focuses on major issues facing children today, including social media. Her presence signaled to our federal colleagues and private sector attendees that she was personally committed to protecting children and youth online. After her remarks she remained at the event to learn more about this issue and how she can continue to make a difference.

So, what exactly is cyberbullying?
The Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention website defines cyberbullying as,

bullying that takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets. Cyberbullying can occur through SMS, Text, and apps, or online in social media, forums, or gaming where people can view, participate in, or share content. Cyberbullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else. It can include sharing personal or private information about someone else causing embarrassment or humiliation. Some cyberbullying crosses the line into unlawful or criminal behavior.

Akil Vohra, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, moderated the summit's first panel discussion with representatives from Facebook, Twitter, Google, and the Family Online Safety Institute. As the mother of two young children who are carefully being introduced to the internet, the panel was very valuable to me. How are existing platforms protecting our children, and how can parents be better engaged? The panel covered a range of issues including how these platforms and the federal sector can work together to stop bullying.

The summit continued to address a range of issues including perspectives from research where attendees learned about youth perspectives on online harassment and how cyberbullying impacts youth and families. The panel raised awareness about adolescent social aggression in the context of digital communication, even touching on how minority populations including AAPI communities, in particular, are affected by bullying.

Later in the day, a panel comprised of law enforcement officials addressed sexting and how to prevent cyberbullying, and explored how law enforcement and schools can work together. Lastly, Nicole White from the Office of Safe and Healthy Students at the U.S. Department of Education led a discussion focused on the education perspective and addressed challenges schools are facing in preventing and addressing cyberbullying. The session presented interventions and strategies schools are applying to address cyberbullying, including mindfulness training.

Each and every day, we make decisions that affect those around us, including our children. We are proud to say that the Federal Partners on Bullying Prevention are thinking about and taking action to ensure our children are growing up in a safer environment. We hope you can support this work moving forward by getting involved and becoming an "upstander" instead of a bystander.
Holly Ham is the executive director at the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

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Putting our Children First: Stopping Cyberbullying - ED.gov Blog

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Each and every day, we make decisions that affect those around us, including our children. We are proud to say that the Federal Partners on Bullying Prevention are thinking about and taking action to ensure our children are growing up in a safer environment.

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Corey, M. S., Corey, G., & Corey, C. (2018). Groups: Process and practice (10th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.

[Digital Image of Warning: Cyber Bullying] (2016). Retrieved from https://depositphotos.com/102666808/stock-photo-cyber-bullying-warning-sign.html

H Ham. (2018, October 29). Putting our children first: Stopping cyberbullying.

[web blog]. Retrieved from https://blog.ed.gov/2018/10/putting-our-children-first-stopping-cyberbullying/

Rogers, Vanessa. Cyberbullying : Activities to Help Children and Teens to Stay Safe in a Texting, Twittering, Social Networking World, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/waldenu/detail.action?docID=677719.

Sink, C. A., Edwards, C., & Eppler, C. (2012). School based group counseling. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.

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This group is a psychoeducation group for middle school students which will cover the topic of social media and thinking before posting online. Throughout the course students will better understand digital citizenship and how their behavior/interactions online affect not only themselves but others as well. 

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This group is a psychoeducation group for middle school students which will cover the topic of social media and thinking before posting online. Throughout the course students will better understand digital citizenship and how their behavior/interactions online affect not only themselves but others as well. 

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The group will run over the course of 8 weeks, meeting once a week for 45 minutes per session.  This will allow adequate time to meet, but is not too long that it interferes with class time.  Collaboration with teachers is essential in determining what is least disruptive to the daily schedule.  The 8 week timeline is warranted because youth today are developing in an era where social media is extremely influential and there are many sub-topics that need to be addressed that interfere with academic, career, and social/personal success.

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The group will run over the course of 8 weeks, meeting once a week for 45 minutes per session.  This will allow adequate time to meet, but is not too long that it interferes with class time.  Collaboration with teachers is essential in determining what is least disruptive to the daily schedule.  The 8 week timeline is warranted because youth today are developing in an era where social media is extremely influential and there are many sub-topics that need to be addressed that interfere with academic, career, and social/personal success.

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Each week, there will be a different aspect/component of social media discussed.  The goal is to identify, explore, and discuss both the positive and negative aspects that affect youth.  Students will share experiences, learn from their peers, have open discussion, ask questions, and may be assigned some "homework" assignments, or activities, to complete in between weeks.

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Each week, there will be a different aspect/component of social media discussed.  The goal is to identify, explore, and discuss both the positive and negative aspects that affect youth.  Students will share experiences, learn from their peers, have open discussion, ask questions, and may be assigned some "homework" assignments, or activities, to complete in between weeks.

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The group will have at least five members, but will have no more than eight members because this small, intimate group atmosphere is conducive for allowing students to contribute and share in an open manner. 

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The group will have at least five members, but will have no more than eight members because this small, intimate group atmosphere is conducive for allowing students to contribute and share in an open manner. 

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More information regarding pre-planning for this group can be located here: 

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More information regarding pre-planning for this group can be located here: 

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Swingle, M. (2016). I-minds : how cell phones, computers, gaming, and social media are changing our brains, our behavior, and the evolution of our species. Retrieved from Walden Library databases.

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Group Counseling Member's Survey and Evaluation of Experience

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York, C. N. (2017, June 06). Social Media Consequences. Retrieved January 19, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDucVZCEAY8