Kate O.

Gonzales ED3
Btle-2 September 20.2019

How can cyberbullying be a factor or intervene in an

online e classroom

Cyber bullying is not common nowadays as

technology advancement presents. Cyberbullying
cannot happen only physical but in online also. It also
present in online classroom setting. Cyberbullying can
lead to vital dilemma if this won’t stop or higher
authorities won’t take their action to stop this kind of
activities.
Cyberbullying already happened in the past but spread
more even as technology present and bullies exist more
as technological advancement just gave them another
tool to step up the attack at the same time remain
anonymous. The double-edged nature of modern
technology, continuously balancing between risks and
opportunities, manifests itself clearly in an emerging
societal problem known as cyberbullying (Walrave &
Heirman, 2011). More than 97% of youths in the United
States are connected to the Internet in some way
(Tokunaga, 2010). The number of children and teens
who use the Internet at home is rapidly growing, with
now over 66% of fourth to ninth graders able to go
online from the comfort of their bedrooms. Children can
engage in numerous Internet-based activities such as
game playing, seeking information, and talking with
friends. The constellation of benefits, however, has been
recently eclipsed by numerous accounts of the
Internet's undesirable social implications, which appear
in both scholarly literature and popular media. A fair
amount of attention has been given to Internet offenses,
including cyberstalking (Seto, 2002), sexual predation
(Dombrowski, Lemasney, Ahia, & Dickson, 2004, as
cited in Tokunaga, 2010) Cyberbullying presents and
exist because of externalizing behaviors were most
predictive of cyber victim status. Increased awareness
about the use of technology as a vehicle for bullying and
identification of potential problems associated with
cyber bullying and victimization will aid parents,
educators, and psychologists in developing intervention
and prevention strategies. (Williams, & Guerra).
According to Calvete, et al (2010) cyberbullying was
significantly associated with the use of proactive
aggression, justification of violence, exposure to
violence, and less perceived social support of friends.
Other reasons for cyberbullying are: envy, prejudice and
intolerance for disability, religion, gender, shame, pride,
guilt, and anger. (Hoff & Mitchell, 2009; Jones,
Manstead, & Livingstone, 2011), Parents also take their
part as a parent. Parents have innate responsibility to
forming their child to a good one. They should embark
their child with knowledge and responsibility and
poured with love and affection in order not to feel envy
or any feeling that would commit them to do
cyberbullying as their tool to hurt people while remain
anonymous.
Cyberbullying can affect persons emotion, mental and
physical aspect .As technology present bullying spread
more even .Due to advancement of technology many
bullies exist as technology serves a tool to attack person
online while they remain anonymous .This may mitigate
if values thought well by the parents. Parents should
take their responsibility as parents of their child. They
should embark the child of what is morally wrong and
right in order them to grow with responsibility and being
aware of their actions. Second, schools should start to
have firm platform to fights against cyberbullying in
both private and public schools to mitigate the effect of
bullying in students emotional, mental and physical
aspect.