#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

  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:00 AM EST
    Some news this week: sch cleaning prog, 2-subject specialisation for Pri sch teachers, coding progs by vendors. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:04 AM EST
    According to our records, #edsg turned four this month (https://t.co/sVcGrVWeMm). Do we mark its birthday or its funeral this year?
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:04 AM EST
    @ashley Happy birthday #edsg !
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:06 AM EST
    @ashley get my kids to watch the news on the sch cleaning program on the very next day. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:06 AM EST
    @engrg1 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? #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:07 AM EST
    @engrg1 What was their response? Don't they already do class cleaning? #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:08 AM EST
    @ashley we usually get them to clean up their own area. This time round, it is more explicit. They opened up to the idea #edsg
  • hsiao_yun Feb 28 @ 8:08 AM EST
    Hello #edsg which I still think is on long term life support haha
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:08 AM EST
    #edsg and get them to see the difference between "clean" and "cleaned" city #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:08 AM EST
    #edsg and get them to see the difference between "clean" and "cleaned" city #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:09 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun dun worry. We have Medisave Life! #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:09 AM EST
    @engrg1 No rumblings? I'm surprised that the move had to be instituted. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:10 AM EST
    @engrg1 Yeah, we have a very high per capita state of cleaners who are not Singaporean! #edsg
  • hsiao_yun Feb 28 @ 8:10 AM EST
    They should have kept the classroom/toilet duty of my time. #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:11 AM EST
    @ashley I think more for pri sch as the kids might be perceived to young to such things. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:11 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun I wonder what its MediShield status is like. ;) How long can it go on? Do its guardians have a right to pull the plug? #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:13 AM EST
    @ashley explain to them why that is necessary before asking them to do some area cleaning. Not much grumbling on their part #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:13 AM EST
    @engrg1 Yep. Especially if they have folks picking up after them or at their beck and call. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:14 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun Classroom cleaning duty is still common. Toilet duty not. #edsg
  • hsiao_yun Feb 28 @ 8:14 AM EST
    @ashley we can pull the plug but it might come back to life anytime #zombie #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:15 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun Which reminds me of the Green School in Bali which has "dry" loos for solid waste. The teachers have to clear them! #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:16 AM EST
    @engrg1 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. #edsg
  • hsiao_yun Feb 28 @ 8:16 AM EST
    @ashley toilet duty wasn't so bad. we mainly made sure the floors were clean. doing it might encourage kids to keep public loos clean. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:17 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun The Talking Dead. Not the excellent talk show. Something dreadful. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:18 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun There are reasons why teachers have separate loos. One is how student ones are sometimes biohazards. :P #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:21 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun @ashley the dead-undead #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:21 AM EST
    @engrg1 @hsiao_yun Anything interesting happening at your end? News to digest, info to discuss? #edsg
  • hsiao_yun Feb 28 @ 8:22 AM EST
    @ashley See I don't recall our loos being that bad. Cos we had to clean them haha #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:24 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun Yeah. Civic consciousness isn't born. It's bred. I wonder if any "higher up" suggest loos be included. #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:25 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun @ashley i dun remember cleaning up loos #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:27 AM EST
    @engrg1 @hsiao_yun I had to. Sch & army. Had to supervise their cleaning as an adult too. Fun times. "Fun" times. #edsg
  • hsiao_yun Feb 28 @ 8:29 AM EST
    @engrg1 Maybe not all schools had it. Hmm. #edsg @ashley
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:31 AM EST
    Do we want/need another #edsg tweet up? Our last ones were linked to "life support" & events.
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:32 AM EST
    @ashley I do not mind. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:35 AM EST
    I've met #edsg-linked folks individually or in pairs since our last big meeting in 2015. But no "official" tweetups so far.
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:35 AM EST
    #edsg sometimes sprung to life with some interesting topics that matters . It is indeed a very "erratic" patient :-)
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:36 AM EST
    Gotta love librarians in acad institutes. They're a key group of leaders in #OER. Wish #edsg could work with more of them!
  • hsiao_yun Feb 28 @ 8:37 AM EST
    @engrg1 @ashley I like tweetups! #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:38 AM EST
    @engrg1 Yes, I like that we do not wait for a particular day of the week or fortnight. But regular chats are like a pulse. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:40 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun @engrg1 Maybe I'll DM times & places where I'll be & whoever's in the group can show up if they want. #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:41 AM EST
    @ashley too bad #edsg does not have any presence for the upcoming #ictlt2016 Else it is another way to create awareness
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:42 AM EST
    @engrg1 Event agenda not the same as informal, unPD agenda. It happens. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:44 AM EST
    @hsiao_yun @engrg1 Or I might use WhatsApp since we have a few who are not on Twitter. Can't decide. #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:45 AM EST
    @ashley agree ! but sometimes we just to ride on "gahmen" machinery to push our own agenda #edsg lol
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:45 AM EST
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:46 AM EST
    @engrg1 But if the bus is full or the captain does not ask you on board, then how? ;) #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:47 AM EST
    @ashley there is always the backdoor or we can climb to the top of the bus #edsg lol
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:48 AM EST
    @engrg1 @hsiao_yun I discovered a nice place last week. Google-like. But they're vacating later this year. I'll ask if we can meet #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:49 AM EST
    @engrg1 Then kena fine (it's gone up recently) or get labelled a troublemaker (too late, already labelled)! #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:52 AM EST
    @ashley but the impt thing is we get on the bus. lol. #edsg
  • engrg1 Feb 28 @ 8:53 AM EST
    BTW, how do you feel about the reactions on the FB page? #edsg It makes things so confusing !
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:53 AM EST
    @engrg1 I think we missed the bus in 2014. Twitter itself might have missed the bus. Here's a good analysis: https://t.co/lzYOiAETLe. #edsg
  • ashley Feb 28 @ 8:57 AM EST
    @engrg1 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. #edsg