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That means internet users (including your students) can
trade quick verbal or text-based blows that are intended
to hurt someone’s feelings instead of carrying on a
typical conversation that you may hear over a phone call
or face to face.

In the worst cases, this kind of behavior can devolve
into cyberbullying, which has been documented as an
especially bad problem for younger internet users.

This is why teaching empathy has the potential to
make an enormous difference in your students’ lives.

How Do You Teach Empathy?

Teaching empathy is a challenge. After all, how do you
teach something that many still consider to be an inborn
factor of someone’s psyche and attitude?

In fact, empathy is as simple to teach as any other
concept.

Graduate Programs for Educators, for instance, has an
article detailing several helpful strategies you can use to
teach empathy in your classroom.