'tis nobler – to learn and change

Every Sunday, ’tis nobler presents seven things that you may find inspiring, intriguing and informative.  Enjoy!

Our shared home – from top to bottom!

These are nice B&W photos of cats.  What?  They’re not photos, they’re pencil DRAWINGS!!!!!!!!! 

When you sign up to a social networking site, they want you to stay forever so how do you actually leave?

This is fascinating stuff ….. short term gain for teachers = longer term pain for students:

In primary and secondary education, measures of teacher quality are often based on contemporaneous student performance on standardized achievement tests. In the postsecondary environment, scores on student evaluations of professors are typically used to measure teaching quality. We possess unique data that allow us to measure relative student performance in mandatory follow‐on classes. We compare metrics that capture these three different notions of instructional quality and present evidence that professors who excel at promoting contemporaneous student achievement teach in ways that improve their student evaluations but harm the follow‐on achievement of their students in more advanced classes.

The person down the street, the family who live around the corner, the cyclist or runner passing you while out walking; there’s an interesting story everywhere you look.

If you’re trying to give some bad news in an endearing way, try to work a giraffe into the conversation.

 Hayaku is a time lapse journey through Japan.  The contrast between the timeless and the tawdry, between the busyness and the stillness is staggering.

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