Cyberbaiting... It's not what you think

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I can totally see kids doing this to teachers.

A new report sheds light on an emerging trend known as “cyberbaiting,” a phenomenon where students taunt their teachers to the point of outburst, then capture the teachers’ reactions via cell phone videos and post those videos online for all to see.
Cyberbaiting is the latest example of using social networking for bad behavior, and one in five teachers across the globe has personally experienced cyberbaiting or knows another teacher who has, according to the Norton Online Family Report, a global survey of more than 19,000 students, parents, and teachers in 24 countries.
Perhaps due to the emergence of cyberbaiting, 67 percent of teachers across the world say being friends with students on social networks exposes them to risks. Still, 34 percent of global teachers continue to “friend” their students.
In the United States, 15 percent of teachers are friends with students on social networking sites, 90 percent of teachers think that being friends with students exposes them to risks, and 11 percent of teachers know a fellow teacher who has experienced cyberbaiting.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/11/27/teachers-newest-online-worry-cyberbaiting/

 

[bigpern23]

I don't usually even friend my co-workers or bosses. If I were a teacher, there's no way in hell I'd friend my students.

 

[User 1019]

Any teacher who thinks it's OK to cyber socialize with a student is a teacher who needs 1.) a class in ethics/conflicts of intrest, and 2.) a serious reprimand.

I am friends with Army peers only. No subordinates. No superiors. Neither my commander, nor my Soldiers need to see any other side of me than what they see at work.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

It's clearly not what people think, since it has nothing to do with being FB friends and everything to do with actual personal interactions.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

You would think having video of these incidents would actually be worse for the student pulling the prank since it is now on record. Teacher can easily go to the administration and say "Here's video of so-and-so harassing me, please take action."

 

[rmanfredi]

You would think having video of these incidents would actually be worse for the student pulling the prank since it is now on record. Teacher can easily go to the administration and say "Here's video of so-and-so harassing me, please take action."

Except when all of the parts where the student is egging the teacher on is edited out, making it seem like the teacher went off on some poor kid for no good reason.

 

[93Devil]

Good for these idiot kids because they are legally opening the door, or removing any possible argument against doing so, for classrooms to be videotaped by the school division.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Any teacher who thinks it's OK to cyber socialize with a student is a teacher who needs 1.) a class in ethics/conflicts of intrest, and 2.) a serious reprimand.

Or 3.) A candidate for a future poin thread.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Good for these idiot kids because they are legally opening the door, or removing any possible argument against doing so, for classrooms to be videotaped by the school division.

That or the banning of mobile devices.

 

[bydesign77]

Good for these idiot kids because they are legally opening the door, or removing any possible argument against doing so, for classrooms to be videotaped by the school division.

That or the banning of mobile devices.

My wife decided to completely remove her FB account... she didn't have any current students as friends, but there were some former ones on there... but the current and the former ones were sometimes friends, and well, she didn't want to risk her job any more with this crap.

 

[J-School Blue]

I don't quite understand why mobile devices aren't banned from schools to begin with. If a parent really, really, really needs to get ahold of their kid, they can call the office. I realize those damn things are ubiquitous now, but there's no compelling pro argument for them that I can see.

 

[User 1019]

Is it illegal for teachers to place a cell phone on a tripod and tape the class? If not, that's what I'd do.

 

[Smash Williams]

I don't quite understand why mobile devices aren't banned from schools to begin with. If a parent really, really, really needs to get ahold of their kid, they can call the office. I realize those damn things are ubiquitous now, but there's no compelling pro argument for them that I can see.

Many schools do ban them, but they can't search student's bags to take them away. Unless a kid is stupid enough to get caught using it or leaves it out, it's pretty hard for a school to take it away.

 

[93Devil]

I have no problem with a kid bringing a phone to school. You have to remember, if a kid cannot bring a phone to school, that means they cannot have them at the bus stop or on the bus. To many people, and they are right, having a phone keeps children safer from the all the sick ****s in the world.

A decent teacher should tell the students to turn the phone off during class or put it in silent mode face down on the desk, and the phone stays there until the class ends. You don't see the phone, you know they are probably screwing around with it. A policy should be in place that students are not allowed to use their phone during class time.

 

[User 1019]

Drop them in a basket on the teacher's desk when they come into class. Get caught playing with it in class, that's three days' suspension.

 

[trifectarich]

I don't quite understand why mobile devices aren't banned from schools to begin with. If a parent really, really, really needs to get ahold of their kid, they can call the office. I realize those damn things are ubiquitous now, but there's no compelling pro argument for them that I can see.

Many schools do ban them, but they can't search student's bags to take them away. Unless a kid is stupid enough to get caught using it or leaves it out, it's pretty hard for a school to take it away.

There's hardly a teenager in America who can go longer than 60 seconds without them.

 

[FileNotFound]

Drop them in a basket on the teacher's desk when they come into class. Get caught playing with it in class, that's three days' suspension.

This is a great idea.

There are enough spoiled parents who insist they need to be able to contact their children at a moment's notice at any point in any given day that you'll never get a blanket ban on kids carrying the things. But there's no reason why kids should have unfettered access during the school day.

At my kids' school, the rule is, "We see it, we take it."

 

[Beef03]

I did some cyberbaiting last night, I mean . . . oh that's cyberbaiting?

It is **** like this that makes me think twice about having kids some day. Like WTF? Big downside of technology is it has allowed kids to become even more depraved in the stupid **** they do today. Kids have always been little assholes -- not all, but there has always been that certain segment out there -- but now it just seems they are getting worse with more devices at their hands.

 

[Armchair_QB]

I don't quite understand why mobile devices aren't banned from schools to begin with. If a parent really, really, really needs to get ahold of their kid, they can call the office. I realize those damn things are ubiquitous now, but there's no compelling pro argument for them that I can see.

Many schools do ban them, but they can't search student's bags to take them away. Unless a kid is stupid enough to get caught using it or leaves it out, it's pretty hard for a school to take it away.

There's hardly a teenager in America who can go longer than 60 seconds without them.

Tough ****.

 

[93Devil]

Drop them in a basket on the teacher's desk when they come into class. Get caught playing with it in class, that's three days' suspension.

This is a great idea.

There are enough spoiled parents who insist they need to be able to contact their children at a moment's notice at any point in any given day that you'll never get a blanket ban on kids carrying the things. But there's no reason why kids should have unfettered access during the school day.

At my kids' school, the rule is, "We see it, we take it."

Two problems with this...

1. You will lose educational time collecting and passing these out each class period.
2. Once collected, they are now property of the school or the teacher until return. If Jimmy's Ipod got broken when it was collected, the school is on the hook for the money. And that is a pain in the ass.