Abstract:

The anti-covid measures in the form of school closures in many countries somewhat deepened the issue of possible risks in cyberspace. According to the presented pilot results, every fourth student has become a victim of ridicule and mockery during online teaching, which was one of the options of distance education during the covid pandemic. The pilot was undertaken via a questionnaire survey, in which 315 primary and secondary school respondents participated. Ridicule or mocking can be understood as verbal attacks in cyberspace, carried out via humiliation and embarrassment through disseminating an image, video, or another recording.

Distance (and in this case, online) education, as the only possibility of educating pupils in extraordinary situations such as the covid pandemic, also brings several other risks, which correspond with the impossibility of ensuring sufficient control over these phenomena. The presented article points to a critical problem, namely the increasingly common forms of cyberbullying and cyberattacks, often outside the law.

Keywords:

Cyberbullying, ridicule, mocking, distance learning, online learning.