Report on Academic Skills, Cyberbullying, and Legal Implications

This report delves into the crucial academic skills essential for student success, such as listening, evaluation, time management, and presentation skills, with a focus on the author's personal skill development and the application of SMART goals. The report also examines the legal implications of cyberbullying, defining it as illegal due to its detrimental impact on individuals, including emotional distress, decreased confidence, and potential for serious consequences. The author provides a case study of a cyberbullying incident involving a 12-year-old girl, highlighting the lasting psychological effects. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of academic skills and the illegality of cyberbullying due to its interference with student's goals and overall well-being.

ACADEMIC
PERFORMANCE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Effective Academic skill for the student and own reflection of the academic skill....................3
Why cyber bulling is illegal........................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Cyberbullying is the word used for the incident of the bulling which is done with the help of the
electronic device or specifically electronic media. This report highlights the academic skill
require by the effective student and my own review on academic skill. Further this report explain
why cyber bulling is illegal.
MAIN BODY
Effective Academic skill for the student and own reflection of the academic skill
Academic skill as the name suggest is the skill which is generally used by the student in their
day to day learning at the University. Effective student requires a variety of the skills in them to
be called as an effective student.
As per the view of Beecher, Strand and French, 2018 skills are Listening, Evaluation, Time
management, Presentation skills and most importantly all the soft skills as listening skill will
help the student in understanding the lecture easily and evaluation will help them to relate the
lecture with reality, presentation skill will help them to describe their learning and the Time
management will help them in increasing the efficiency of their work. Soft skills will help the
employee in developing the personal aptitude which eventually helps them in their study.
I am also having some academic skill which is helping me in my learning, the main skills which
I am having id the listening and evaluating skill which help me in understanding the lectures of
the teacher very comfortable and the evaluation skill help me in relating that lecture to the reality
which helps me in understanding the lecture in easier way.
I as a student looking to develop my presentation and the note making skills as it will help me in
describing my view points very clearly to as I face problem in describing the view which I have
gathered with the help of the learning and evaluation skill and which eventually hampers my
efficiency level in the University as I am not able to pass on my view it also creates the
Uncertainty in the mind of the other party, whether they are teachers or student (Chaux and et.al.,
2016).
I have developed my Smart goal to improve the presentation skill of mine. Smart goal is as
follows:

Specific: I am very specific about the goal that I have to develop the Presentation skill and the
note making skill so that I am able to describe my view point more effectively and comfortably
to the other in the University.
Measurable: I will ask my tutor on the fixed time interval to evaluate the performance of mine
and give me feedback. Also, change in the remarks of my presentation will be the reliable
measurable method for me to evaluate the development.
Achievable: It is very important for me to achieve the goal I will give more than usual time in
practising the same so that I can develop it as early as possible.
Relevant: This skill is very relevant for me as this skill is proving as a hurdle in the success of
mine other skills.
Time Bound: It is my goal that I should achieve the goal by the end of the 3 month (Chaux and
et.al., 2016).
Why cyber bulling is illegal
As per the thought of Hebert and Hauf, 2015 Cyberbullying is the word used for the
incident of the bulling which is done with the help of the electronic device or specifically
electronic media. This is typically done by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening
nature. It is called as a illegal incident as cyberbullying is the incident which creates a very deep
impact on the individual as Cyberbullying creates the feeling of the distressed and dispersion in
the individual which can be the reason or basis of the individual taking any wrong decision such
as societ. Not only that it also influence the mind of the individual as they feel down on
confidence and never try to focus on the thing which is in front of them, as the activity of
influencing someone minds for the wrong purpose is illegal it is proven that cyberbullying is
illegal.
In the view point of mine as a student Cyberbullying or the bully are the illegal activity as
it always divert the activity of the student from their goal as a result the efficiency of the work of
the student is always hampered and as the main motive of the student is to learn the study and if
something divert you from doing that then it is illegal activity in my thought, not only that the
mind is diverted by the Cyberbullying, it also creates the impact on the student in such a manner
that it prove difficult for the student to come out of that very easily as the writer Mason And
et.al., 2017 has said that the cyberbullying not has one time impact it has never ending impact

and it always proves difficult for the student to come out of it hence in my thought it is an illegal
activity.
I have made a different note and went through different presentation and evaluated that
presentation which has helped me in knowing the case of the 12-year old new jersey girl who
was cyber bulled by their class mate and as a region girl decided to suicide, As with the help of
my evaluation I was able to understand that the girl reason for societ was not the suggestion there
friend used to give him that “you have no friend you should die” by the social media, it was a
depression and the stress which was faced by the 12-year girl which has forced girl to take the
action on the 14 June 2017, as reason I understood that long-lasting impact which is created by
the cyber bulling influence the individual which is generally illegal to influence or force
someone (Hebert and Hauf, 2015) (Case Study, 2017).
CONCLUSION
After going through above report it has been summarized that the academic skill is very
necessary for the student in efficiency of work in the organization. It has been also summarized
that the Cyber bulling is illegal has it diverts and influence the work of the individual.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Beecher, C.C., Strand, P. and French, B.F., 2018. Investigation of the Development of Pre-
Academic Skills for Preschoolers in Head Start. Journal of Education for Students Placed
at Risk (JESPAR). 23(3). pp.230-249.
Chandrashekhar, A.M., Muktha, G.S. and Anjana, D.K., 2016. Cyberstalking and cyberbullying:
Effects and prevention measures. Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. 2(3).
pp.95-102.
Chaux, E. and et.al., 2016. Effects of the cyberbullying prevention program media heroes
(Medienhelden) on traditional bullying. Aggressive behavior. 42(2). pp.157-165.
Hebert, A. and Hauf, P., 2015. Student learning through service learning: Effects on academic
development, civic responsibility, interpersonal skills and practical skills. Active Learning
in Higher Education. 16(1). pp.37-49.
Mason, B.A. And et.al., 2017. Conflict, closeness, and academic skills: A longitudinal
examination of the teacher–student relationship. School Psychology Review. 46(2). pp.177-
189.
Online
Case Study, 2017 [ONLINE] Available through <https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-
jersey-family-sue-school-district-after-12-year-old-n788506>