Hello everyone, this past 4 weeks in digi tech we are talking about Social, Environmental, and Ethical issues. Making some apps and games by using Applab and Gamefruit
What category does your issue fall under?
Social Environmental Ethical
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What specifically is your issue (e.g. Global Warming, Pollution of NZ waterways, etc)
Bullying
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Why is this issue important to you?
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Your Focusing Questions
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Resource 1 (first website, video, or source of info)
(Copy the website or video you use to get your information)
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Resource 2 (second website, video, or source of info)
(Copy the website or video you use to get your information)
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Resource 3 (third website, video, or source of info)
(Copy the website or video you use to get your information)
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Who/what does
_______bullying_________
affect?
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Kids who are bullied can experience negative physical, school, and mental health issues. Kids who are bullied are more likely to experience: Depression and anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in sleep and eating patterns, and loss of interest in activities they used to enjoy.
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Bullying can cause emotional harm and poor academic achievements. When bullying is left unchecked it can have a significant impact on school climate, students feel like they are unsafe scared to go to school. This effect can last until adulthood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDsrYiHjNbQ
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Media reports often link bullying with suicide. However, most youth who are bullied do not have thoughts of suicide or engage in suicidal behaviours.
Although kids who are bullied are at risk of suicide, bullying alone is not the cause. Many issues contribute to suicide risk, including depression, problems at home, and trauma history. Additionally, specific groups have an increased risk of suicide, including American Indian and Alaskan Native, Asian American, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth. This risk can be increased further when these kids are not supported by parents, peers, and schools. Bullying can make an unsupportive situation worse.
https://www.stopbullying.gov/at-risk/effects/index.html
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Question 1
(you need to use your own question here, use the matrix below to give you a starting idea)
Are there differences in the bullying experiences of girls and boys?
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Many studies have found that there are differences in the bullying experiences of boys and girls. Most of the studies covered here have found that it is more common for boys to be involved in physical bullying. Girls on the other hand are more likely than boys to be involved in psychological bullying (for example ignoring someone or deliberately keeping someone out of a group). However, for both boys and girls, the most common type of bullying is verbal.
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Every day, kids are tormented, manipulated, ostracized, harassed, punched, pushed and humiliated. And yet every experience is unique depending not only the type of bully but also on the gender of the bully. When it comes to bullying, boys and girls approach it very differently. For instance, girls tend to use more relational aggression while boys tend to resort to physical bullying. This is not to say that girls won’t be physically aggressive or boys won’t exclude others, but there are tendencies in bullying that are influenced by gender. Here’s a closer look at what sets male bullying apart from female bullying.
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Boys reports of bullying others, being victimized, or both bullying and victimization ranged from 8.6% in Sweden to 45.2% in Lithuania. Among girls, the prevalence of exposure to any bullying experience ranged from 4.8% in Sweden to 35.8% in Lithuania.1 • Boys are more likely to bully others than girls. This finding is consistent across grade level, as well as across many countries and cultural groups 2,3,4 • Bullying prevalence rates were higher among boys than girls in 40/40 countries; these differences were observed in each age group in the majority of countries.5 • Boys tend to engage in physical forms of bullying6 and sexual harassment more than girls.7,8 • Girls and boys exhibit similar levels of electronic, verbal, and social bullying.9,10 • In dating relationships during adolescence, there are no gender differences in the prevalence of physical or social aggression to the partner.11 • Boys and girls tend to experience different forms of victimization • Boys tend to report higher levels of physical victimization compared to girls.12,13 • Girls report being victimized by bullying more than boys in the majority of 40 countries surveyed, but this trend was inconsistent across age.14 • Girls are victimized by sexual harassment and emotional aggression more frequently than boys.15 • Boys are more likely to be victimized by physical bullying than girls.
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Question 2
(you need to use your own question here, use the matrix below to give you a starting idea)
Who to blame if someone is bullying?
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When bullying occurs, people often place the blame on the shoulders of the victim. Most of the time, they falsely believe that if the victim of bullying were somehow different, then bullying wouldn’t happen. They might even ask the victim: "What did you do to cause it?"
While it is true that there are some things that can help deter bullying, like developing social skills and building self-esteem, the truth is that anyone can become a victim of bullying. There are a number of reasons why bullies target others, but none of those reasons is the victim’s fault. The responsibility for bullying always belongs to the bully. Yet many people still engage in victim blaming and assert that the victim brought about the bullying in some way.
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Even as companies talk the talk about equality and fair treatment, they're still struggling to walk the walk when it comes to bullying. A 2017 survey from the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI), for instance, found that roughly 60.3 million people are affected by bullying in the workplace. But to rub salt in the wound, new studies now reveal that others don't hesitate to point fingers at the victims.
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Bullying is never the target's fault. Victims do not need to change or be different in some way to avoid being bullied. Change is always the bully's responsibility.
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Question 3
(you need to use your own question here, use the matrix below to give you a starting idea)
Does age make a difference?
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Many studies have found that the number of children who report being bullied decreases with age.
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Today’s bullies are much more sophisticated than the troublemakers of my youth. Victims, these days, don’t typically have a black eye or bloody nose; rather, they arrive home with internal scars that are unnoticeable to their parents and more emotionally damaging than a punch to the stomach.
One thing that has not changed over the years is the definition: Bullying is unwanted or aggressive acts among individuals of all ages that involve a real or perceived power imbalance. These acts are continually repeated over time and may range from physical harassment to complicated emotional abuse such as exclusionary tactics and rumor-spreading.
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The risk for bullying peaks at different ages for different types of bullying. In 2014, physical intimidation was most commonly reported by children under 10 years: its prevalence was 19 percent among children ages two to five, and 18 percent among children ages six to nine, compared with 9 percent among children ages 10 to 13, and 5 percent among children ages 14 to 17. Relational aggression peaks later, with 23 percent of children ages two to five reporting it in the past year, compared with 33 percent of children ages six to nine, 48 percent of children ages 10 to 13, and 39 percent of youth 14 to 17. Internet and cell phone harassment was most common at ages 14-17 (nine percent, compared with less than five percent among younger children).
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