Cyber Savvy Short Version

This survey asks questions about how students make decisions when using digital technologies, including the Internet, cell phones, and other personal digital devices.

This survey is anonymous, so no one will know how you responded. You may skip questions if you want. Please answer honestly with what you think and are doing, not what you have been told to do.

On this survey, if the answers have a circle, you can only provide one response. If the answers have a square, you can and should check all that apply.

The results of this survey will be used for discussions about how you are making choices when using digital technologies. You should think of this survey as you would think of a homework assignment, because completing the survey will help you to think about your own actions when using digital technologies.

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* 1. What grade in school are you?

7th grade

8th grade

9th grade

10th grade

11th grade

12th grade

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* 2. Are you male or female?

Male

Female

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* 3. What are the most common reasons you have seen people make bad choices when they use digital technologies?

Did not think about how this might affect someone else

Thought they were invisible so no one would know they did this

Forgot posts can be seen by many people

Forgot someone could forward a private message to others

Acted in anger

Followed what someone else was doing

Thought it was okay, because it was easy using technologies

Trying to get attention

Did not think about how others would view them

Were pressured by someone else

Were deceived by someone else

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* 4. What are the top most important reasons why you would not do something inappropriate using digital technologies?

How I would feel about myself

How I would feel if someone did this to me

What my parents, guardian, or other important adults would think

What my friends would think

How it might affect my future

What my teachers or other school staff would think

What people I don't know would think

Someone might file an Abuse Report

My Internet access would be restricted or my cell phone taken away

I could get into trouble at home

I could get into trouble at school

I could be arrested

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* 5. What do you think teens should do if they see that someone is being hurt, doing something risky, or being hurtful online?

Ignore the situation because it is none of their business

Ignore the situation because they likely cannot do anything to help

Reach out to the person being hurt or at risk to provide support or guidance

Tell the person being hurtful to stop, if this is safe

Report serious concerns to an adult who can help

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* 6. Think about a time when you saw that someone was being hurt, doing something risky, or being hurtful online and you really wanted to help, but you didn't. What are the most significant reasons why you didn't?

I did not know what I could do

Others think the one being hurtful is "cool”

It was not my business

School staff should have done something

The one being hurtful could have retaliated

Others might have teased me if I tried to help

The one being hurt likely deserved it

Others thought it was funny

I decided it wasn't that bad

The one being hurt wasn't a friend of mine

The one being hurtful was a friend of mine

I could have failed and embarrassed myself