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24 Aug 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
The national exams are upon us. This year, I am tasked to be the Presiding Examiner. This means that I got to be super sharp and help my team of invigilators perform their exam duties well. As might be expected, the invigilation manual is as dense a...
24 Aug 2024 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
To me, the prime era of SN was this January - February, where any random article I wrote garnered me thousands of zaps. I kid you not. I don’t think my writing has deteriorated so drastically, but these days, any article that breaks the 1000-zap mark...
23 Aug 2024 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
No, I’m not so talented. Neither do I have the time even if I were inclined to compose songs. But as you may know, my mind is always furiously thinking about how I can get my students to remember stuff better. Hence, when I came across an app, Suno,...
23 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Last Friday, I was fortunate enough to attend a literacy seminar by an eminent professor, Dr Sharon Vaughn. Right off the bat, she distinguished the difference between language and literacy. A student may know how to read a word, but if he doesn’t u...
20 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I’m now teaching the present continuous tense to my students, but I realise that I’m putting the cart before the horse. In order for them to have a chance to master this tense, they must first memorise the seven personal pronouns in English. Yester...
20 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
With Gen AI being so ubiquitous nowadays, parents and educators are spoilt for choice when it comes to managing their students’ studies. QuizWhiz helps you generate a MCQ quiz from your PDF. I selected the Create New Quiz option, but it seems that y...
19 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I often saw children poring over Dog Man books when I was teaching at a primary school but was never interested to read them. Yesterday, at the book exchange corner, something just clicked, which led me to Google “Does Dav Pilkey have dyslexia?” Tur...
19 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
To recap the previous lesson, Mr Heng leveraged the Poll function on WhatsApp to ask Jerrick a question. He was thrilled that Jerrick answered it correctly. During the lesson, he first asked Jerrick to read the third grade words he had trouble with....
18 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
First all, I’m so thrilled and humbled by your genuine curiosity regarding my mother tongue, Mandarin Chinese. I will seek to be more comprehensive when I want to introduce Chinese characters from now on. Covering the etymology and all that. Even tho...
17 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I often saw children poring over Dog Man books when I was teaching at a primary school but was never interested to read them. Yesterday, at the book exchange corner, something just clicked, which led me to Google “Does Dav Pilkey have dyslexia?” Turn...
