The Next Steve Jobs Is A 12-Year-Old Mexican Girl, Wired Magazine Says
*This piece digs deep into the original Wired article to justify the headline, but that said, there is merit in the story of what a teacher in a slum in Mexico is doing, and how one of his students is excelling. We use the word “innovation” loosely these days, teacher Sergio Luis Correa is actually doing it. VL
A major U.S. technology publication claims to have found the next Steve Jobs – and she lives nowhere near Silicon Valley.
Wired magazine believes they have found the world’s next tech genius
in a Mexican border town. Paloma Noyola Bueno, 12, lives in Matamoros, attends a school that sits next to a municipal waste dump and is supported by her mother and other family members who get by selling scrap metal and food in the streets.
So what makes this little girl from a border city that for years was embroiled in a turf war between the Zetas and Gulf drug cartels so special? Last year, this tween, the youngest of eight children, scored a maximum of 921 in Mexico’s version of the SATs – making her test score the best in the nation.
While Paloma’s talent, especially given the dire conditions she lives and goes to school in, is almost unheard of, much of the Wired’s article focuses on the teaching methods of her educator.
Sergio Juárez Correa, 32, employs a “minimally invasive education” concept pioneered by Sugata Mitra, a professor of educational technology at Britain’s Newcastle University. This technique lets students tap into their own curiosity and self-learning to solve problems.
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