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Writing student remarks

19 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Due to the growing spurts of AI, almost everything can be expedited these days. Take writing student remarks for example. It used to be the bane of a teacher’s life. It isn’t actually the case that writing those remarks is difficult. After all, the...

Own your costly flaws

18 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Everyone has flaws. Mine is that when I’m exhausted or have a trillion things running through my mind or am fixated on one particular thing, I tend to drop the ball. Sometimes, I am able to reverse my error. No harm done, and life goes on as usual. O...

Using Ideogram to create a poster

18 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Yesterday, I organised the Semi-finals of my school’s annual Spelling Bee. I leveraged the opportunity to teach them a memory tip: double collars double sleeves. This would come in handy for them when it comes to spelling words like accessories and s...

Book Review | “The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork”

17 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

There are some books that you read because you believe you have to. John C. Maxwell is a foremost authority on leadership and teamwork, so I gave this book a try in spite of the yellowing pages and reliance on classic examples, such as Mount Everest,...

“Squandering Time”

17 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

The flurry of requests from educators seeking recommendations for time-saving Gen AI tools made me realise just how swarmed teachers from all over the world are with their professional responsibilities. As a teacher who’s in the same leaking boat, I...

Creating Science unit plans with Magic School AI

15 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Magic School AI allows teachers to create a Science unit plan, so I wanted to try it out this weekend. I decided on Magnets because it’s a topic of interest that overlaps with my parenting life. My son likes to hang his masterpieces on the fridge wit...

Movie Review | “How to make millions before Grandma dies”

14 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Friday afternoons are a sanctuary as they are my only chance to get a respite from the double whammy of working and parenting stresses. This afternoon, I spent it on watching “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies”. Fun fact: I have not watched...

Book Review | “How to do everything and be happy”

14 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I started on this book earlier this year but stopped short of completing it because I got distracted by other books. Today, I spontaneously picked it up again because I was getting bored by the other book I had been reading. Yes, Sensei has a fickle...

Generating different opinions with Twee

10 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Once you decide to go down the rabbit hole of Gen AI tools, you will find that there are just so many tools out there. As an ex-General Paper teacher (for the uninitiated, this subject basically involves pre-tertiary students writing an argumentativ...

Trying out Decodable Reads

10 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. My son suddenly asked me how to spell men. But without waiting for my answer, he flexed his knowledge of it. I speak Mandarin to my son, so I was duly impressed with how his teachers at the childcare centre have been...