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• https://www.idropnews.com/2016/10/19/10-life-changing-ted-talks-that-everyone-should-watch/

  

  Mia Williams

  

  iDrop News

  Oct 19, 2016
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  Having Other Teachers' Eyes Means Also Having Their Ideas

  NPR - Katrina Schwartz

  A lot of what's going on today in Marna Wolak's fifth-grade math class is pretty familiar. She's got her students gathered on the rug for a number talk, something she does often, trying to get them thinking about fractions. But a lot of it is unfamiliar, too. The topic is new — dividing whole …

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  Mia Williams

  

  How this Bay Area charter school network is reinventing education

  Los Angeles Times - Nichole Dobo

  reporting from REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Diane Tavenner scanned the list of names a staffer at Summit Preparatory Charter High School had just handed her. She began to cry. They weren’t happy tears. Where many would see signs of success, Tavenner saw failure. “I taught those kids,” Tavenner said of that …

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  Mia Williams

  

  9 Bento Boxes and Other Ways to Pack Your Lunch in the 21st Century

  Bon Appétit - Marian Bull

  You know how you used to pack your lunch box every day, emblazoned with your favorite action figure, Little Pony, or Sailor Moon character? Maybe you picked one out during back-to-school shopping every year, and you carried it with pride as it kept your PB&J safe and sound? And then you grew up, …

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  Mia Williams

  How Artificial Immune Systems May Be the Future of Cybersecurity

  singularityhub.com - Shelly Fan

  2015 was a year of jaw-dropping hacks. From CIA director John Brennan’s private email to Sony Inc, from the IRS to CVS, from Target to the notorious …

• Hey guys and gals take a moment and watch this great Ted Talk on droughts!
  
  https://youtu.be/sLFqwXqe4Yk

  

  Mia Williams

  

  13:38

  4 ways we can avoid a catastrophic drought | David Sedlak

  TED on YouTube

  As the world's climate patterns continue to shift unpredictably, places where drinking water was once abundant may soon find reservoirs dry and groundwater a...