Character Education To Prevent A Pandemic


Cyber bullying is something that is spreading like a pandemic across the World Wide Web. Each and every day, millions of children are impacted by this pandemic. Is there any solution to address this chronic issue? Many Character education campaigns features lesson plans, varied activities, strategies for prevention, instructional videos and parent/ teacher guides. Parents too should be educated with a working knowledge of various Internet Terms or cyber glossary. The campaign primarily aims for behavioral change among the audience.

What exactly do you mean by Cyber Bullying? Cyber bullying involves the use of information and communication technologies like e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, pagers and cell phones to support deliberate, repeated and hostile behavior by an individual or a group as a means of victimizing, hurting, threatening or intimidating someone. And this is happening round the clock all over the globe.

As we all know, nowadays a child's computer skills begin when they are very young, so do their cyber bullying character. A recent study shows that, one in three elementary students