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Ritualist parishes thrive on one-upmanship. Experienced ritualists enjoy picking apart the mistakes of inexperienced parishioners or visiting clergy, whose failure to cross themselves at the beginning of the Magnificat is viewed as proof of their ill breeding and low intelligence. Yet even the...
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thinkmexican:
Paloma Noyola: The Face of Mexico’s Unleashed Potential
When a report emerged in September 2012 that a girl from one of Matamoros’ poorest neighborhoods had attained the highest math score in Mexico, some doubted its veracity. It must be fake, they said.
But it wasn’t fake. Her name is Paloma Noyola, and what most reports failed to mention is that almost all of her classmates also scored very high on the national math test. 10 scored in 99.99% percentile.
Paloma and her classmates also scored in the top percentile in language. Something special was happening at José Urbina López primary school in Matamoros, and Wired went to take a look.
The high test scores turned out to be the work of a young teacher who also came from humble beginnings. Sergio Juárez Correa was tired of the monotony of teaching out of a book and wanted to try something new to help engage his students when he came across the work of Sugata Mitra, a UK university professor who had innovated a new pedagogy he called SOLE, or self organized learning environments. The new approach paid off.
Although SOLE usually relies on unfettered Internet access for research, Juárez and his students had very limited access. Somehow, he still found a way to apply Mitra’s teachings and unleash their potential.
From the beginning, Paloma’s exceptional abilities were evident:
One day Juárez Correa went to his whiteboard and wrote “1 = 1.00.” Normally, at this point, he would start explaining the concept of fractions and decimals. Instead he just wrote “½ = ?” and “¼ = ?”
“Think about that for a second,” he said, and walked out of the room.
While the kids murmured, Juárez Correa went to the school cafeteria, where children could buy breakfast and lunch for small change. He borrowed about 10 pesos in coins, worth about 75 cents, and walked back to his classroom, where he distributed a peso’s worth of coins to each table. He noticed that Paloma had already written .50 and .25 on a piece of paper.
As Mr. Juárez implemented more of Mitra’s teachings in his classroom, Paloma continued to stand out as an exceptionally gifted student:
Juárez Correa was impressed. But he was even more intrigued by Paloma. During these experiments, he noticed that she almost always came up with the answer immediately. Sometimes she explained things to her tablemates, other times she kept the answer to herself. Nobody had told him that she had an unusual gift. Yet even when he gave the class difficult questions, she quickly jotted down the answers. To test her limits, he challenged the class with a problem he was sure would stump her. He told the story of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the famous German mathematician, who was born in 1777.
When Gauss was a schoolboy, one of his teachers asked the class to add up every number between 1 and 100. It was supposed to take an hour, but Gauss had the answer almost instantly.
“Does anyone know how he did this?” Juárez Correa asked.
A few students started trying to add up the numbers and soon realized it would take a long time. Paloma, working with her group, carefully wrote out a few sequences and looked at them for a moment. Then she raised her hand.
“The answer is 5,050,” she said. “There are 50 pairs of 101.”
Juárez Correa felt a chill. He’d never encountered a student with so much innate ability. He squatted next to her and asked why she hadn’t expressed much interest in math in the past, since she was clearly good at it.
“Because no one made it this interesting,” she said.
Although this Wired piece focuses mostly on Sugata Mitra, it does once again highlight the story of Paloma Noyola. Unfortunately, after a brief spurt of media attention, little on Paloma was ever mentioned and, as was pointed out by Wired, nothing was ever said of Mr. Juárez.
As with most stories in the Mexican press — and with in the middle-class — things suddenly become very important once it’s featured in a gringo publication. Which is a very sad commentary. We hope, however, that this story pushes those in the press, state and federal government to look not to the United States for validation but to Mexicans like Sergio Juárez doing good work in places like Matamoros.
The clear message in this story is that there are thousands of Paloma Noyolas going to school in Mexico who, just like her at one time, are not being challenged and therefore aren’t very interested in school. This story can, if we want it to, raise enough awareness to shift the discussion from poverty to opportunity.
Paloma truly personifies both Mexico’s challenges and unleashed potential.
Read the entire Wired story here: How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses
Editor’s note: As an addendum, Wired provided information on helping support Sugata Mitra and his School in the Clouds project, and although they donated school supplies and equipment to José Urbina López School, we’re interested in seeing if we can help set up a similar fund for Sergio Juárez, the teacher featured in this story.
Also, $9,300 was raised to help fund Paloma’s education last year. We going to follow with the economist who led the fundraising campaign to see how she’s doing. Stay tuned for updates.
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Of all the people in the history of the world, they go with Steve Jobs?
Of course they went with Steve Jobs. It’s Wired. Their big overriding concern is, “Who will be the evil genius who gives us the next generation of THINGS to write about?”
Where thy treasure, etc.
One of my favorite stories shows up in practically every book you read about Celtic Christianity. It is the story of a group of Irish monks who are found in a small boat with no oars off the coast of England in the 9th century. They are brought to the king who asks who they are and how they got in…
The legend of St. Brendan the Voyager is a wonderful example of the Celtic spirit of pilgrimage and an ultimate trust in God to guide us by the power of the Wild Goose, the Holy Spirit.
The future of marriage equality in Michigan will be decided in court early next year, a federal judge announced this week.
In a case about a lesbian couple seeking to adopt one another’s children, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman ruled that he’ll hold a trial in February to hear arguments for and against marriage equality — namely whether there is a legitimate state interest in denying same-sex couples marriage rights. (Spoiler alert: there isn’t.)
The legal challenge was initially filed on behalf of Jayne Rowse, 49, and April DeBoer, 42 — a lesbian couple together for eight years who wanted to legally adopt each other’s children, not challenge the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, which voters approved in 2004. But last year Judge Friedman encouraged the couple to refile their suit to challenge the constitutional amendment, which forbids the state from recognizing any union other than that of one man and one woman “as a marriage or similar union for any purpose.”
While the federal case in Michigan won’t be debated until February, state lawmakers have already introduced a package of bills to repeal Michigan’s marriage amendment and allow the state to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
Woot! Let’s do this, Michigan.
Please continue to pray for equal rights in Michigan.
she's lost about 70% of her weight which makes me sad. every time we force feed her she throws up a few times even though we give her stuff not to. she also drools uncontrollably. it's very sad though, because we force feed her one dropper full of chicken broth four times a day which makes me very sad because she hates being force fed so she doesn't end up getting most of the food in the dropper. okay sorry for ranting i'll stop now.
Oh no...I'm so sorry. Our pets are like our children. It brings both joy and heartache. My prayers are with you.
my cat is very sick she has advanced fatty liver disease and they say it is not likely she will recover but i love my cat! :c
I'll pray for you and your cat. I love my dog very much, so I can imagine that this is difficult. Granted, humans and cats are different, but I have a hopeful thought from experience. I was diagnosed with fatty liver disease in undergrad and no longer have it. I was overweight and was told that for every 1% of body fat lost, I would lose 10% of the fat buildup in my liver. How is your cat's weight?
my cat is sick
Praying.
Do you have a favorite service of compline from the Celtic Daily Prayer book? I've owned the book for a few years, but am only sitting down now to really read through it as I write up some liturgies for working with youth...
Well...I like them all. If I had to narrow it down to a top three: Sunday, Monday, and Saturday.
Happy Feast Day of St. Ignatius de Loyola!
I am intrigued by the Celtic Prayer Book. Can you send me a link to one worth buying for my mother, she would adore such a thing! I might get myself one too.
Good morning, friend.
My community (Anamchara Fellowship) uses the Celtic Daily Prayer book published by the Northumbria Community, which you can buy directly from their website: http://www.northumbriacommunity.com/. It's actually really interesting because the folks that started the Northumbria Community and created the CDP are actually a couple of Baptists that are total Anglicans at heart. Please know that there are a treasure trove of Celtic prayer books out there, but I find the CDP to be the most complete. It has liturgies for Morning, Midday, and Evening prayer and a different Compline for each night of the week. It also has a Communion liturgy, two years worth of daily readings/reflections, meditations for each day of the month, and much more.
I found mine at Barnes and Noble. The downside of ordering directly from Northumbria Community is the time that it takes for the product to be shipped. On the plus side, in addition to buying the prayer book directly from them, you can also purchase the CD that has the sung offices on it to allow you to sing along with the prayers.
Here is a link to the book on Amazon, where it is listed for $22: http://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Daily-Prayer-Northumbria-Community/dp/0060013249/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375274751&sr=8-1&keywords=Celtic+Daily+Prayer.
It looks like you're also discerning a call to Holy Orders. Are you in school yet? If so, where? If not, where are you thinking about going?
God bless!
BPC
And I HIGHLY recommend praying Compline from Celtic Daily Prayer. :D
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