Cyberbullying is relatively easy to get away with, and nearly half of students report being bullied online. A new app could stop this trend. The app is called STOPit and allows students to report bullying anonymously. Schools buy the app and ask students to send in screenshots and report on when they see bullying on social media. Listen to hear more about this new way to address bullying and then debate with your students: What’s the best way to stop bullying?
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September 14, 2017
3:15
The cafeteria can be a scary place when you do not have a place to sit. Natalie Hampton, an 11th grader, has created an app to help students avoid this feeling. The “Sit with Us” app helps students find “open lunches”, which are tables with students willing to have people they don’t know join them. Listen to hear about how Natalie Hampton took her lunch time struggles and created an app to save students from facing public rejection in the cafeteria.
Read MoreFebruary 9, 2017
5:26
A new app is available allowing people to send anonymous compliments to one another. A twenty-five year old developer came up with the idea of creating a virtual compliment box able to impact people around the world. On the app, people can leave each other anonymous compliments, see photos of positive reactions and can choose to reveal their identity later. Listen to learn more about the origins of the app, and how the founder hopes to use it to create a kinder, more empathetic culture.
Read MoreDecember 17, 2015
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At a high school in Tennessee, a teacher asked his students to go without their phones for 24 hours. He says cell phones are an addiction where there is always something for students to see and something for students to do. He wanted them to see what happened when they lived a day without them. Listen to this story to hear the reaction of the students and how they filled their time without their phones.
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