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=Your Mission: Thwart Cyber Bullying=

This problem is bigger than the Cold War. How can we battle the enemy and keep our students safe--physically and emotionally? Do your best PMF spying. Check out these resources. Search for others. Remember, you need to find ways to try to prevent it from happening in the first place and if that fails, be ready with strategies to counteract it when it does happen. Use your delicious account to keep track of your good findings (there's a note section in there, you know). Be ready at a moment's notice to pool resources with your PMF fellow agents and report to your team leader and the nation.

Watch this [|video] together. Each M:P team member should use an intelligence map (find one per agent in the dossier kit) to organize his/her thoughts during viewing. (Pencil gadgets are provided in the dossier kit, too . . . be sure to return them at the end of this rendezvous.) // WARNING: This video tells a story that is emotionally charged and very hard to take. The intensity of how upsetting this story is will vary from person to person. Please be sensitive to your teammates' reactions and know that if it upsets you terribly, I apologize for upsetting you. I also know that because of your life experiences that brought you to this point, you will be one of the strongest advocates against cyber bullying and we need you in our schools. //

Though bullying and cyberbullying are complex issues that have no easy fix, there are [|five areas that schools can work on to mitigate bullying].

Check out these[| resources that address cyberbullying]. Divide them up amongst yourselves and then share your findings with your teammates.

Though not specifically about cyber bullying, it is about technology and bullying. Check out this story about [|an app that allows anonymous reporting of bullying].

[|Edutopia has many resources related to anti-bullying, promoting how to be an "upstander" instead of a "bystander," thwarting cyber bullying, etc.]

Here is a digital version of the graphic organizer you are to fill out while watching the video. Feel free to use the paper version.