Handling Group Conflict: How to Disagree Without Becoming Disagreeable Exercise 1 Subject: A Columbine exercise Following the tragedy at Columbine High School in Colorado, a significant
amount of media attention has been given to the subject of youth conflict and
violence. Your first exercise for chapter thirteen is to go to North Carolina State
University's Center for the Prevention of School Violence at: www.ncsu.edu/cpsv From there, navigate your way to their statistics section. What do these
numbers tell you about the need for teaching effective group conflict skills?
Is the Nintendo generation being taught to shoot first, and ask questions later?
Is diplomacy becoming a lost art? Exercise 2: Subject: Is Jerry Springer a peacemaker or a troublemaker? Your second web-exercise requires you to compare the work of two talk-show
hosts by comparing their websites: www.jerryspringer.com
and www.oprah.com. How is Jerry Springer's
style of discussion different from Oprah's? What do their websites say about
them? Exercise 3: Subject: Yahoogroups.com policies Your final exercise for chapter thirteen is to go to www.yahoogroups.com
and review their policies for participating in an online group discussion. Do
you believe that these rules are honored? Look at some of the groups available
there, first, to get a sense of the types of discussions that occur in www.yahoogroups.com. Are the rules of face-to-face group communication and conflict resolution
the same as those exercised in online environments, such as www.yahoogroups.com?
Why or why not? | 
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