[LM_NET] STOP CYBERBULLYING DAY: March 30, 2007

[Alice Yucht <ayucht@GMAIL.COM>]

Andy Carvin is initiating Stop Cyberbullying Day this Friday, March
30, 2007  in reaction to the terrorization/bullying that has been done
to Kathy Sierra.  Please read Andy's post at
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/03/march_30_participate_in_stop_c_1.html
Kathy's Creating Passionate Users blog, at
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users ,  explores and
explains "how the brain works and how to exploit it for better
learning and memory... and how to recognize when someone else
(including one of us) is applying brain-based techniques to get you to
do something."  Her posts are frequently praised and quoted across a
wide variety of industries and interests: marketing, technology,
education, libraryland, etc.

In school-library-land we know how important it is to alert students,
parents, teachers, and administrators to the realities of the
Read/Write Web.  We advocate for social responsibility and fight
against censorship.  We want -- nay, need -- our future citizens to
know how to conduct themselves appropriately and ethically at all
times, whether face to face or online.

Bullying and social cruelty is hateful behavior, no matter what the
format or the age of the instigators.  As educators, it is imperative
that we do whatever we can to make sure that it does not happen to
anyone, child OR adult.

Check out http://cyberbully.org and Nancy Willard's
http://www.csriu.org/ for excellent resources to use and share with
your students and colleagues.
Vicki Davis suggests several ways for educators to take action at
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/

What will YOU do to prevent cyberbullying in your community?

(cross-posted on the AASL blog)
-- 
Alice Yucht, aka Alice in InfoLand
teacher-librarian, now freelancing as speaker, mentor,
Rutgers/SCILS/PDS faculty, writer, consultant
and catalytic curmudgeon.
Highland Park, New Jersey
http://aliceinfo.squarespace.com/blog

"We may be service-oriented, but we don't have to be servants."

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