#edsg Archive
The #edsg hashtag is used by stakeholders who want to share information with educators in Singapore. But there is a faithful group that tunes in every fortnight on Sundays, 9 to 10pm Tuesday, 9 to 10pm (Singapore time, UTC+8) for topical chats. We provide unPD, which is informal and unsanctioned professional development (PD) for educators. Such PD is free and self-organizing, but no less valuable than official PD. We promote progressive education and evaluation by practicing connected learning, critical thinking, and community building.
Sunday February 28, 2016
8:00 AM EST
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Some news this week: sch cleaning prog, 2-subject specialisation for Pri sch teachers, coding progs by vendors.
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According to our records, turned four this month (https://t.co/sVcGrVWeMm). Do we mark its birthday or its funeral this year?
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get my kids to watch the news on the sch cleaning program on the very next day.
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Is this also the day we lay it to rest? Remember how a group met of us to prolong its chat life 1.5 years ago?
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What was their response? Don't they already do class cleaning?
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we usually get them to clean up their own area. This time round, it is more explicit. They opened up to the idea
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Hello which I still think is on long term life support haha
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and get them to see the difference between "clean" and "cleaned" city
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and get them to see the difference between "clean" and "cleaned" city
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dun worry. We have Medisave Life!
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No rumblings? I'm surprised that the move had to be instituted.
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Yeah, we have a very high per capita state of cleaners who are not Singaporean!
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They should have kept the classroom/toilet duty of my time.
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I think more for pri sch as the kids might be perceived to young to such things.
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I wonder what its MediShield status is like. ;) How long can it go on? Do its guardians have a right to pull the plug?
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explain to them why that is necessary before asking them to do some area cleaning. Not much grumbling on their part
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Yep. Especially if they have folks picking up after them or at their beck and call.
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Classroom cleaning duty is still common. Toilet duty not.
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we can pull the plug but it might come back to life anytime
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Which reminds me of the Green School in Bali which has "dry" loos for solid waste. The teachers have to clear them!
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This reminds me of a teacher who complained that some of her teenaged students did not know how to hold a broom or mop. Heh.
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toilet duty wasn't so bad. we mainly made sure the floors were clean. doing it might encourage kids to keep public loos clean.
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The Talking Dead. Not the excellent talk show. Something dreadful.
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There are reasons why teachers have separate loos. One is how student ones are sometimes biohazards. :P
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Anything interesting happening at your end? News to digest, info to discuss?
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See I don't recall our loos being that bad. Cos we had to clean them haha
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Yeah. Civic consciousness isn't born. It's bred. I wonder if any "higher up" suggest loos be included.
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i dun remember cleaning up loos
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I had to. Sch & army. Had to supervise their cleaning as an adult too. Fun times. "Fun" times.
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Maybe not all schools had it. Hmm.
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Do we want/need another tweet up? Our last ones were linked to "life support" & events.
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I've met -linked folks individually or in pairs since our last big meeting in 2015. But no "official" tweetups so far.
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sometimes sprung to life with some interesting topics that matters . It is indeed a very "erratic" patient :-)
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Gotta love librarians in acad institutes. They're a key group of leaders in . Wish could work with more of them!
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Yes, I like that we do not wait for a particular day of the week or fortnight. But regular chats are like a pulse.
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Maybe I'll DM times & places where I'll be & whoever's in the group can show up if they want.
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too bad does not have any presence for the upcoming Else it is another way to create awareness
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Event agenda not the same as informal, unPD agenda. It happens.
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Or I might use WhatsApp since we have a few who are not on Twitter. Can't decide.
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agree ! but sometimes we just to ride on "gahmen" machinery to push our own agenda lol
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But if the bus is full or the captain does not ask you on board, then how? ;)
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there is always the backdoor or we can climb to the top of the bus lol
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I discovered a nice place last week. Google-like. But they're vacating later this year. I'll ask if we can meet
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Then kena fine (it's gone up recently) or get labelled a troublemaker (too late, already labelled)!
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but the impt thing is we get on the bus. lol.
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BTW, how do you feel about the reactions on the FB page? It makes things so confusing !
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I think we missed the bus in 2014. Twitter itself might have missed the bus. Here's a good analysis: https://t.co/lzYOiAETLe.
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Hardly use FB. It's like my passport. It gets stamped once in a while. I don't look at the stamps if they're not interesting.
