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2 ThE NOBLES BULLETiN SprING 2012 view from the Logging on to Learn Nobles joins independent school consortium nobles students now can choose an elective from several online courses offered through a partnership with global Online Academy (gOA), a nonprofit consortium of independent schools that share academic programs online. This collaboration provides students with access to an expanded curriculum and instruction from like-minded independent schools around the country. “Without being too clichéd—in an increasingly connected world, it is critical for us to give students opportunities beyond the resources we have on our respective campuses,” explains Head of Upper school Ben snyder. This semester, nine nobles students enrolled in online classes, including global Health, Media studies and Urban studies. Connecting with teachers and students from as far away as Jordan is among the reasons the experience is valuable, they said. “The course has been very interesting so far,” says Hamzat raheem ’13, who is taking Media studies. “The work is engaging and manageable, and the teacher is both knowledgeable and accessible. Also, being able to interact with students from all over the world is amazing.” Modern languages teacher Ayako Anderson will train with gOA this spring to prepare for an online course that she will teach next fall—Japanese Language Through Cul- SUMMER DAyS ARE hERE AGAiN! nobles Day Camp is celebrating its 65th year. the camp, under the direction of emily Parker, welcomes campers ages 3–14. for more information or to register online, go to www.noblesdaycamp.org. (Camp is nearly full for summer 2012!) Camp administrators can also be reached at camp@nobles.edu or 781-320-1320. ture. Her training includes an online course, which Anderson hopes will help her better understand the experience of her students. she will also spend a week in seattle, where she’ll learn about the digital tools she will use to design curriculum, lead classroom discussions and track assignments. To learn more about gOA, visit www.nobles.edu/ globalonlineacademy or www.globalonlineacademy.org. illustration By aaron meshon
castle Pulitzer Prize Winner speaks E.O. Wilson, one of the world’s most distinguished scientists, spoke at Assembly in Lawrence Auditorium Jan. 11. Wilson is a professor and honorary curator in entomology at Harvard. In 1975, he published Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, a work that features ants and attempts to explain human social behaviors such as aggression and altruism. Fred Sculco, retired Nobles science teacher, introduced Wilson. “It is a distinct pleasure,” he said. “[But] how do you summarize a man who stands as tall as any redwood in the forest?” Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning author, shared with the Nobles community tales from his latest adventure in the South Pacific, where he partnered with French and German scientists on the largely unexplored islands of New Caledonia and Vanuatu. There, Wilson, who has identified thousands of new species and named 450 of them, saw for the first time the rare kagu, a flightless bird and the only surviving member of the genus Rhynochetos. He also found an ancient and aggressive ant, the Myrmecia or bull ant. Wilson called it “an ant worth our attention—a primitive species.” He suggested that humans have destabilized a beautiful planet and that a cultural shift is required—sustainability must be valued. He pointed to Costa Rica as one nation that has systematically prioritized natural resources and education. Wilson also talked about the potential to eradicate genetic diseases, the ethical dilemmas that will come with genetic manipulation, his view on religious creation stories, the desirability of the distribution of human genotypes, and genetically modified agriculture. NEWS, THEATRE, SPORTS AND MORE e.o. Wilson traNsformiNg a CouNtry At Assembly on Feb. 8, Nobles welcomed author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson. Wilkerson talked about the Great Migration—the move of 6 million Southern blacks to the North and the subject of her New York Times bestseller, The Warmth of Other Suns. For the book, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and other honors, Wilkerson spent 15 years researching the post-WWI period. She interviewed 1,200 people; the final narrative highlights the journeys of three Southern blacks. She said that the migrations changed the country demographically and allowed for new lineages. She noted that cultural icons whose parents were part of the migration—Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Toni Morrison—would not have been born had their families not made a courageous, individual decision to flee the oppression. “Any migration can be judged by what happens to the children,” she said. isabel Wilkerson the Nobles bulletiN spring 2012 3
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