Educational cartoons and jokes

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Analytical skills and capabilities are not what drives a company revenue, the objectives do. This cartoon and quote represent that: focus on your goals, not on what your tool can do.

It is an important lessons to always be truthful to statistics, no matter how insignificant they are (if there is such a thing as insignificant numbers). If you don't take it seriously it won't yield any insights.

With the proliferation of the World Wide Web, we see a whole new planet forming itself. But this planet is different: the boundaries are not territorial, people might not be what they tell they are, and everyone have access to information.

A new study conducted by TRU provides a body of research which supports the idea that students use cell phones to learn, and also that schools are not acknowledging or supporting them fully, yet. This research supports the work of innovative educators who are guiding today’s generation text and will help in the effort of getting more schools to stop fighting and start embracing student use of mobile devices for learning in school. Rather than banning, the study highlights the fact that if we meet children where they are we can leverage their use of mobile devices for powerful lear ning.

A collections of visuals + educational quotes mashups exploring visual thinking in education at the Learning is Sharing workshop. 8 & 9 April 2013. Winnipeg, Ma

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It is very easy to cheat when it comes to measurement. It does not have to be a lie, but analysts can search for the best metrics and show only them. While this will make a company feel good, it is clearly not the best strategy in the long run.

Analysts tend to focus most of their energies on finding answers to problems that others find important. But it is a good strategy to focus most of the time defining a problem so that the answer can be actionable and insightful.

"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted." This is an extremely important lesson by Albert Einstein: understand what we can or can't measure.