Miami, FL
‘Heroes of Miami’ fighting to keep social media positive
Miami Sundown Senior Excessive College has performed host to a number of wonderful pupil teams over time, however in the course of the 2021-22 college yr a brand new group of neighborhood heroes has emerged.
“Heroes of Miami” is a various group of Miami Sundown Senior Excessive College college students devoted to making a safer area on-line for inclusion, allyship and constructive social interactions. These college students joined collectively to create this initiative and use their superpowers to fight on-line hate speech and trolling.
All eight college students had skilled cyberbullying prior to now and wished to make a constructive change inside their neighborhood. The Heroes of Miami group was created by Jocelyn Alonso, Kaitlyn Engroba, Andres Tablada, Amanda Porter, Emilee Paulino, Carlos Ruiz Martin, Cleopatra Jones and Luz Andablo.
To unfold consciousness on cyberbullying, the Heroes of Miami created a digital platform to have interaction folks of their mission. They created their very own web site, social media retailers and even a weblog which will be discovered on Spotify and Apply Podcasts. By way of content material shared on these retailers, these college students shared constructive messages and the significance of digital citizenship. The web site that they created additionally allowed them to share constructive tales and spotlight a various group of neighborhood changemakers.
Heroes of Miami additionally has established a presence by in-person occasions. The Heroes visited Winston Park Ok-8 Middle and Herbert A. Ammons Center College to host enjoyable and fascinating informational classes on digital citizenship. In the course of the preliminary introduction, college students centered on a roundtable type dialogue on cyberbullying. Many center college college students spoke out and talked about that they’d seen numerous on-line hate speech on social media or on different retailers corresponding to Discord. Subsequent, the Heroes centered on how center college members can substitute that negativity with constructive affirmations and helped college students to determine trusted assets in their very own lives.
Extra info on this program will be discovered at www.heroesofmiami.org. Are you a trainer or pupil concerned with bringing this program to your college? Be happy to achieve out on to the Heroes of Miami through e mail at heroesofmiami@gmail.com.
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