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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Digital citizenship--privacy, safety, and security. The student practices safe, legal, and ethical digital behaviors to become a socially responsible digital citizen.

Ask students, in a small group, to verbally define cyberbullying. Provide examples of online interactions and ask students to provide a thumbs up or thumbs down to identify if the interaction represents cyberbullying.

Examples:

  • Making fun of someone 
  • Writing mean things about someone's work
  • Posting (or writing) a lie about someone
  • Writing something nice about someone's work
  • Being friendly
  • Posting nice comments about someone
Glossary terms and definitions are consistent across kindergarten through high school in the TEKS Guide. The definitions are intended to give educators a common understanding of the terms regardless of what grade level they teach. Glossary definitions are not intended for use with students.

bullying that involves the use of any electronic communication device, including through the use of a cellular or other type of telephone, a computer, a camera, electronic mail, instant messaging, text messaging, a social media application, an Internet website, or any other Internet-based communication tool