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As a teacher I think it is extremely important to educate children in technological matters. Without a doubt this will be the future of their lives. They will need a firm and educated knowledge of the online world to be successful. Technology is only going to continue to evolve and the more they are comfortable with it now, the easier they will be able to evolve with it.
It is essential teachers and parents do their part to acquaint themselves with what is on the web and the sites their children are visiting. It is our responsibility to make sure they have the knowledge to navigate the web safely and under our guidance and protection.
The best way for you to be in touch with your children is to know and understand their likes and dislikes, their friends, and what they are all obsessed with at the moment. And boy is it fleeting! Once you realize what they are in to, it usually has already changed into something else entirely. So, get ready to get actively involved!
Awesomely enough, Disney, one of the mainstream players in grabbing your child's fleeting interest, has created a website to help you get in touch with the online world and what might interest your kids.
Here is the website: Club Penguin. The online safety campaign, It Starts With You, launched with this very helpful and for me, fun, list of vocabulary your kids might be using right now.
Enjoy!
The words included are:
POSITIVE WORDS
Epic - used when something is awesome or amazing
YOLO – an acronym for you only live once
Bro – a boy’s best friend
Like a boss - well achieved
Dece - means decent
Cushti/Kooshty - decent
Naughty - it is good
Savage - it is good
A touch - means something is good/positive
Reem - cool
Swag – from the word swagger, it means style/confidence
Fetch - awesome
Rare - desirable
Jock - cool/athletic
Player - Cool/attractive
FTW - for the win
Sick - cool
Rents - parents
Fly - cool
Keed - kid joke
Ill - amazing
Legit - good/authentic
Tekkers - skills
NEGATIVE
Crab/crabby - crap/crappy
Derp – stupid, taken from a character in South Park Mr Derp
Spinout - means weird
Gate - hate
Butters - means ugly, from butterface, as in “nice body, but her face…”
Lowe that – can't be bothered
Bun - general term of negativity/ swear word
Bov - means don't care
Jank - means gross/disgusting.
Ratchet – a new version of chav, a variation of wretched
Beach - bitch
Prep - snob/stuck up
Outers - out of order
Basic - simple/unintelligent
Noob - new inexperienced player/stupid
Troll - intentionally mean
Dub- unintelligent
Jelly- jealous
Tool - unintelligent/annoying
Blond - unintelligent
Creep/creeper - stalking/weird person
Owned - embarrassed
Neg - annoying
Beef - problem
B@ - banned
Pwned - To be made a fool of or proved wrong.
