Blogging about crypto as I learn
3 Dec 2023 3 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
#magicschoolai Read a lot about how wonderful MagicSchool.ai is, and found time to try it out for myself. Specifically tried out the #lessonplangenerator. My prompt You and your classmates arrive in school, only to find your teacher missing. He left...
3 Dec 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
I hit a wall in my parenting journey and was wondering if you could provide me with insights and perspectives. Logically, we know that we shouldn’t resort to bribery when getting small kids to do our bidding, because this works only for the short t...
1 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
AI Singapore published a microcourse entitled “Designing Effective Prompts in ChatGPT for Educators”. Since I was keen to upskill myself, I went through the course to gather authentic insights on the art and science of prompt engineering. Here are my...
1 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
An Analysis of Three Chatbots - Squid Game Version School’s out, so I thought I should spread my love around and try out other chatbots besides ChatGPT. As a language teacher, I wanted to see the extent to which these chatbots could analyse a given t...
28 Nov 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
My son is a bicultural, trilingual four-year-old. But it wasn’t always like this. My wife is Japanese, so obviously he acquired her language as his native language, since she provided something I was unable to give at that point in time - fresh mil...
28 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I taught English at a primary school for 3 years. It was long enough for me to realise that when parents asked me for book recommendations, what they were really asking for were books that would help their kids ace their composition exams. If I were...
26 Nov 2023 1 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei
Call me naive, but I recently found out that ChatGPT wasn’t designed to be our digital companion. Upon reflection, I realised that my view of artificial intelligence had been shaped by humanoid robots like Pepper and Dai-chan. Leveraging its ability...
25 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I count my lucky stars that my paternity leave coincides with the release of “Squid Game The Challenge”. I tenaciously woke up early yesterday and today to binge-watch it before having to send my children to school. Yes, all 5 episodes before sunrise...
24 Nov 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
I’m 43 this year and should be in the thrones of a mid-life crisis. Although I have been a teacher all my working life, my trajectory is nothing short of eclectic (some would say eccentric). I have taught students of all ages ranging from primary sch...
20 Nov 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
The school year is winding down, which frees up the mental space required to fully appreciate books like “The Lover’s Dictionary”. But it isn’t that David Levithan has written something dense and complicated. He executes an innovative idea awesomely...
