An Urgent Issue of Today: CYBERBULLYING

 Salutations everyone! How have you been on this fine day? I hope you are doing well. 

        In today's entry, I would like to talk briefly about cyberbullying. If you do not know what it means, it means to bully someone through online platforms. Some of you might be confused or have some questions; I already anticipate that. I can list some of those questions for you. 

                                     "Is cyberbullying a real form of bullying?"

      Yes, it is real. It is more real than you can ever realize. Did you know that according to the Cyberbullying Research Center, 30% of the teens have been cyberbullied at least once in their lives? 

     People, presumably uneducated ones, always assume that cyberbullying is not a form of bullying just because it does not consist of physical abuse. But what they don't know is that bullying is not stopping with just physical stuff. It includes verbal abuse and property abuse too, and cyberbullying is just the place for that. 

         In cyberbullying, people may give hateful and harmful comments, repetitively text someone through DMs or SMS and disturb them, and even send viruses to destroy one's digital property or steal information. Unfortunately, these actions can lead to depression and even suicide among the teens, and we must start to take urgent action to stop it or at least slow it down

                    " What can we do to stop the cyberbullying?"

         To help you, I have prepared an infographic about this question using Canva. I believe it can be used in ELT classes as well to inform students briefly about some topics. That way, we could get their attention by using visuals and short sentences, since today's children do not like mundane texts. Also, by creating an infographic, we can learn to prepare visual learning tools and understand the topic we have better. For us future teachers, it is highly important to learn using such advances, so I thought to myself, "Why not choose cyberbullying to educate?".

         You can access my infographic from the link below. Thank you for reading this entry! Remember to drink water and protect yourself.

My Infographic

Why Advanced Rather Than Traditional?

         Learning has always been a significant aspect of life throughout history and it advanced as the years went on. Every period, new methods emerged and finally, we met with the technology which accelerated the pace of developments in learning. In the 21st century, learning is going forward at an incredibly quick rate due to technological development, and it has become almost exhausting to catch up with for some people. Nevertheless, it is crucial to keep up with the advances. 

           But why is it important to be updated about our century's advances?

        This century is the era of technology and AI, and of course, both of them are everywhere around the world. Everyone utilizes technology, which means our future students are intimately connected to it.  They would get easily bored with having absolutely no internet just only for an hour, which can give us the conclusion that the peers may prefer having or seeing at least a small part of techs. Think about your students in the classroom. Have you ever observed they get bored or distracted? If yes, why not use necessary technologies to attract their minds to us? The new advances give us plenty of choices, so we might as well use them. 

        I am highly aware that not everyone has a good relationship with technology, but what we must prioritize is the students' needs rather than our own comfort. The traditional methods, unfortunately do not work as much as they did in the past anymore. We are living with technology, not sticks and stones.  In conclusion, we should learn and move forward with technology for our students. 

       This is my overall view of this topic. We must update ourselves and our collagues if we want to have an effective learning process. I hope my entry is worth your time! 

   Stay well! Do not forget to drink water and eat!

WELCOME!!

         Salutations, my dearest visitors! I wish all of you a great and successful life full of joy. Here, I will briefly talk about myself. 

         My name is Buse and I am a Marmara University ELT Department student. I have many hobbies, sıch as drawing, writing, playing video games, watching series and films, listening to music, studying my courses etc.I was born in 2005 in Bursa and am my family's oldest child. I have a little sister whom I adore so dearly. 

      Teaching and learning are vital parts of this life, and both should be done with great care.  In this blog, I will post about the courses I am taking in my university. I intend to make this experience as pleasant as possible for readers and myself. I love writing, so I believe this experience will be very fun.

                             Do not forget to drink water and eat well! Have a great day.