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6 Nov 2023 1 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei $0.47
This book contains 125 of Warren Buffett’s aphorisms. Oh you don’t know what aphorism means? I didn’t know it either until I read this book. Apparently, it means “a short clever saying intended to express a general truth.” Tbh, I think Mary Buffett...
6 Nov 2023 2 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.04
I hate parenting to the core. I have two kids: a 4-year-old boy and an 11-month-old girl. I have wanted to be a father. So, don’t get me wrong. I love my kids. But the whole business of parenting is so intense and exasperating and exhausting that I...
5 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.17
I’m in my early 40s, that awkward stage where people take stock of their lives and examine what they have amounted to so far. Concepts like meaning and significance gradually take on more importance than money. I’m no different from my contemporaries...
4 Nov 2023 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.06
Last month, I was invited to do a sharing on “Leveraging ChatGPT in Teaching and Learning” at a gathering aimed at educators in my fraternity. It seemed that I was one of the forerunners of this technology. As a harried teacher, I use ChatGPT a lo...
4 Nov 2023 3 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.31
Year-end Task: Create an Escape Room to engage students after their final exams TrailblazerEdwin Dazhong’s sharing on how he created an Escape Room based in his primary school with the help of ChatGPT. I didn’t realise ChatGPT can create such locali...
3 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.07
This book is written by Greg Cootsona, a pastor who’s a passionate musician. Incidentally, two identities that I hardly feel any affinity with. But perhaps because this book is written from a lens so refreshingly different from mine, I enjoyed readi...
2 Nov 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei $0.09
I believe ensuring mind and soul readiness is key. Sometimes, it’s important to reframe my mindset. For example, I am tasked to set up an Escape Room activity as part of an end-of-year programme for my students. I can see it as a chore or I can emb...
28 Oct 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei $0.09
As a harried father of two, I would say time is the obvious answer since my days and nights are preoccupied fulfilling all the myriad tasks needed to keep a toddler and a baby alive and healthy. But on further consideration, freedom is actually my...
26 Oct 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.10
Dear PSB colleagues, Thank you for drafting such a comprehensive PD session for our collective benefit. In my experience working with students who have dyslexia, both in individual and group settings, I have noticed several recurring patterns during...
25 Oct 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.17
If you ask me why I’m still a teacher despite my capabilities, the answer is that I like to belong to the system, to a cause greater than myself. Take for instance today. I said yes to being one of the conversation leaders for the inaugural SgLDC’s f...
