Product Description

Online communications can be cruel and vicious. They take place 24/7. Damaging text and images can be widely disseminated and impossible to fully remove. There are emerging reports of youth suicide, violence, and abduction related to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. In this book,the author provides school counselors, administrators, teachers and parents with cutting-edge information on how to prevent and respond to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. It covers challenging issues that occur as students embrace the Internet and other digital technologies such as: *Sending offensive, harassing messages *dissing someone or spreading nasty rumors online *Disclosing someone's intimate personal information *Breaking into someone's e-mail account and sending damaging messages under that person's name *Excluding someone from an online group *Using the Internet to intimidate The book includes detailed guidelines for managing in-school use of the Internet and personal devices, including cell phones. Appendices contain reproducible assessment and program forms, as well as parent and student handouts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128022 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-18
• Released on: 2007-01-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
". . . contains a very helpful Parent's Guide to Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats as well as an excellent, concise fact sheet entitled CyberbullyNOT: Stopping Online Social Cruelty. There is also a very useful Situation Review Process handout and School Action plan for working with parents and students." --Karen Creech, Instructional Technology, Dept. of Public Education, Raleigh, NC

". . . contains a very helpful Parent's Guide to Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats as well as an excellent, concise fact sheet entitled CyberbullyNOT: Stopping Online Social Cruelty. There is also a very useful Situation Review Process handout and School Action plan for working with parents and students." --Karen Creech, Instructional Technology, Dept. of Public Education, Raleigh, NC

". . . contains a very helpful Parent's Guide to Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats as well as an excellent, concise fact sheet entitled CyberbullyNOT: Stopping Online Social Cruelty. There is also a very useful Situation Review Process handout and School Action plan for working with parents and students." --Karen Creech, Instructional Technology, Dept. of Public Education, Raleigh, NC

"A highlight of Willard's text is her overview of the technologies that teens and adults use that provide opportunities for cyberbullying. She covers traditional communications technologies (including e-mail, chat, and text messaging) and peer-to-peer networking and gaming." --Linda W. Braun, VOYA, Tag Team Tech columnist

"In my opinion, Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats is the best resource about this important topic. Combines knowledge of technology, educational approaches to youth and parents, and the law. Highly recommended!" --Stan Davis, author of Schools Where Everyone Belongs

"A highlight of Willard's text is her overview of the technologies that teens and adults use that provide opportunities for cyberbullying. She covers traditional communications technologies (including e-mail, chat, and text messaging) and peer-to-peer networking and gaming." --Linda W. Braun, VOYA, Tag Team Tech columnist

"A highlight of Willard's text is her overview of the technologies that teens and adults use that provide opportunities for cyberbullying. She covers traditional communications technologies (including e-mail, chat, and text messaging) and peer-to-peer networking and gaming." --Linda W. Braun, VOYA, Tag Team Tech columnist

About the Author
Nancy E. Willard, M.S., J.D., is director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use. She is a noted expert on the challenges and legal issues relating to the use of technology in schools. She frequently lectures and conducts workshops on policies and practices relating to Internet use in schools and youth risk online. She has presented at the National Education Computing Conference, National School Board Association s Technology and Learning Conference, and the Consortium for School Networking s Annual Conference. In the summer of 2005, she presented at the National Safe and Drug Free Schools Conference in Washington D.C.

Customer Reviews

A important book for parents and educators
[This review first appeared in my column in the July-August issue of The National Psychologist.}

National research studies have found that children and teenagers spend six hours and 21 minutes per day, nearly 45 hours per week, using digital media including television, the Internet, music and video games. A nationwide Kaiser Family Foundation study discovered that if you take into consideration that most kids multitask, the actual media diet is an astounding eight hours and 33 minutes per day or 60 hours per week. With children and adolescents spending more hours using media than they spend sleeping, eating or going to school, parents are becoming increasingly concerned.

Nancy Willard, an educator, lawyer and expert on cyberbullying has written a fascinating book entitled Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the Internet Safely and Responsibly (Jossey-Bass, 2007). Nancy's approach is to provide parents and educators valuable information about online risks and how to keep children and teens safe in cyberspace. Covering such issues as cyberbullying, violent video games, online pornography, gambling, Internet addiction, privacy and social networking, this book is a comprehensive overview of the darker side of technology. However, unlike television shows like To Catch a Predator, it does not simply accentuate the negatives, but gives parents an array of strategies for helping their children avoid pitfalls or deal with problems when they arise. Nancy's work can also be found at the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use (www.csriu.org).

[Postscript: Nancy Willard's book is a must read for any parent of a Net Generation child. It is too easy to believe that cyberbullying will never happen to your tween or teen. Sadly, that is not the likely case. Buy this book. Read it and share it with your children. That way, everyone wins.]

cyberbullying and cyberthreats
Willard spelled out clearly the nuiances of cyberbullying and cyberthreats in her book, which addresses the real-life online risks students face as they blindly roam the world of Internet and other digital technologies.Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats and Distress

Why Not?
Any parent or educator who wants to develop a library of works on cyberbullying and cyberthreats should begin with this excellent and ground-breaking work by Nancy Willard. Ms. Willard, an attorney and educator, is deservedly recognized as a pioneer in the recognition and prevention of cyberbullying and cyberthreats. She has written and spoken extensively on the topic and most educators and researchers are familiar with, and build on, her extensive work.

This is not a dry, scholarly work that is accessible only to researchers. Ms. Willard writes in a comfortable and friendly style that even teenagers can read and enjoy. In fact, this work is highly recommended for students, parents, educators, law enforcement personnel, counselors, and researchers. While there is a growing number of works devoted to exploring the challenges of cyberspace, Nancy Willard got their first and continues to lead the national effort to address those challenges in both law and education.

To parents and educators who understand that cyberspace can be challenging, but have not acquired Ms. Willard's book, there is a simple question: why not? There is only right answer: I'm getting it!