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Blogging about crypto as I learn


What Goes On In Dyslexic People’s Minds

21 Apr 2022 4 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei

This post was first posted here.  Hi, everyone!   When I posted my question, I thought I would be lucky enough to garner 5 responses, so you can imagine how astonished I was when I received 50+ (and counting!) comments. Thank you for letting me into...

Book Review: Monocle (April 2022)

20 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I love reading Monocle. What made me decide to do a book review of this month’s issue of Monocle (April 2022) was because of an article that examined historical factors behind the Russia-Ukraine war, hailing all the way back to the 1994 Budapest memo...

How I Teach Dyslexic Students - Tip #1

19 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I borrowed “At Home With Dyslexia” from National Library Singapore last weekend. I realised that my preoccupation with reading and writing had caused me to be myopic. The author says that the biggest challenge that dyslexic students face is their poo...

A FB Post I Wrote For 20,000 Teachers In My Country

17 Apr 2022 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

This post is exactly what the title promises. Maybe sharing it on Publish0x doesn't quite address your needs, but I'm sharing it anyway in hopes that some of you might be kind enough to share your lived experiences and insights about dyslexia. What w...

Ode To My Son

16 Apr 2022 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

Parenting is freaking hard work. So hard that I constantly wish people were more honest with their parenting journey rather than just post happy pictures on social media. But here I am perpetuating the myth that parenting gives you a perpetual grin....

Teaching Dyslexic Students

14 Apr 2022 2 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

Hi, I’m Diaperfinancingfund. I teach English at a middle school. My school made it possible for me to attend an online course organised by the Orton Gillington Academy so that I could better help dyslexic students.   I hope you don’t mind sharing the...

Please Give Me Inputs on the English Language

11 Apr 2022 1 minute read 4 comments cryotosensei

I earn my living as an English teacher. This year, my school sponsored me for the Orton Gillington course so that I could better help dyslexic students. Through studying of the course, I picked up historical facts like this: the Germanic language als...

My first inquiry-based English lesson!

9 Apr 2022 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei

When someone from the SG Learning Designers Circle, a FB group for teachers in Singapore, told me that when there’s a vowel before the consonant ‘y’, we just add ‘-ed’ to make the past tense form of the verb. Honestly, I had completely forgotten abou...

The Power of Arigato

31 Mar 2022 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

[The Power of Arigato] I never understood the Japanese people who said that their favourite word was Arigato. So simple. So everyday. So trite. The other day, my bicultural kid looked at me in The Eye and said out of the blue, “Arigato, Papa.” It’s a...

How I Found My Crypto Writing Niche On Publish0x

29 Mar 2022 2 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei

Oh, I do believe that I have something insightful to say on this topic. After all, my very first article on Publish0x was “How to Explain Bitcoin to a 5-Year-Old”. Actually, I wrote this article mainly for myself. I knew nothing about crypto but want...