Classroom Digital Citizenship Activity (Ribble, 2017. p. 155)

ISTE Standards Addressed: Standards-T 4.a; Standards-S 5.a; Standards-C 5.b

Focus Question: What is cyberbullying?

Related Questions:  

How can students protect themselves while online?

How prevelent is cyberbullying in the school?

Objective: Make students more aware of the issues and consequences of cyberbullying.

Resources Needed: Cyberbullying: Always On? Always Aware!

Activity Description: 

Ask students how they would define cyberbullying. Have them describe what they know, what it is, and what it involves. Be prepared to share a definition.

Students, working in pairs, create a Sway describing cyberbullying.

Students working groups of four to formulate hypotheses.

Students create questions for a Form that can be administered through the school's student website to gather data from the entire school.

Students will then process the data from their questions through StatKey and produce a histogram and write a conclusion.

All artifacts will be put together in the Class Notebook Collaboration Section.