“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein

In our workshops with teachers, we illustrate Einstein’s quote with the Bully Bystander PSA and Margaret Mead’s with the Price of Silence PSA. Both videos show that, despite the gnawing, gripping, disheartening feeling that any form of bullying is really not OK, it takes the tremendous courage of a single individual to be the first one to cross the line from bystander to upstander. These are the stories we need to celebrate and share!

Two Web Watchers invite you and your students to step up to a global microphone and share, via VoiceThread, what it means to be an upstander, not a bystander.

Looking for more options to showcase student voices on the topic of bystander vs. upstander? Check out the following:

• Upstanders, Not Bystanders project – Sponsored by the California Writing Project and Common Sense Media, call to action via digital writing extends through May 31, culminating with the 2013 California Digital Citizenship Month (May) activities.
• Upstanders Together – Challenge your students to take  tell their stories of what it means to be an upstander via a Google slide. The challenge is to tell your story in 25 words or less.
• Digital ID Project – This international collaborative project includes a Student-Created Content page, where student projects and voices (such as the above VoiceThread) on topics related to digital citizenship are showcased for a world wide audience.

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