Young Minds Online – Anti-Cyberbullying Campaign Presentation

Safebook Over the past seven months these TY students from Salerno Secondary School, Salthill have been developing an anti-cyberbullying campaign in their school. In this presentation the students outline how they went about developing their campaign and discuss their experiences with Young Minds Online.   Young Minds Online – Anti-Cyber Bullying Campaign – Salerno Showcase from Digital Training Institute

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Cyber Bullying Module for Schools

Anti Social Media Behaviour – Cyber Bullying Module   The issue of cyber bullying is becoming greater, especially among teens online. In February this year the National Association of Principles and Deputy Principles called upon the Government to introduce a National Policy to tackle Cyber Bullying after a survey found that there was a 33% increase in Cyber-Bullying since last year. Digital Training Institute Managing Director and Young Minds Online Founder, Joanne Sweeney-Burke has backed the calls by NAPD to establish formal training for teens and parents in social media and has now developed a course for students and teens to help tackle Cyber

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Cyberbullying..What Action is the Goverment Willing to Take to Tackle the Increase

Earlier this week it was announced that the NAPD will call on the Government to develop a national cyberbullying policy after survey conducted by Amárach Research, found that 16 per cent of students have experienced bullying online, a 33 per cent increase on last year. The recent reports led to debate about the actions the Government intend to take to tackle the increase on cyberbullying. We came across this and though it might be of interest to our readers.   Topical Issue Debate The need for the government to outline what action it intends to take to tackle the increase in

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