Cesar Harada: How I teach kids to love science
塞萨尔·原田: 我是怎么让孩子们爱上科学的
TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada aims to harness the forces of nature as he invents innovative remedies for man-made problems like oil spills and radioactive leaks. Full bio
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my parents would tell me,
我父母告诉我,
but you have to clean up after yourself."
但是之后你必须收拾好。”
to all these wonderful places,
一个什么都可以发生的,
to protect us from the ugly truth.
来避免我们接触到丑恶的现实。
其实大人们的世界一团糟,
that adults make a mess,
at cleaning up after themselves.
at the Hong Kong Harbour School.
就发现了成堆的垃圾。
and stumble upon piles of trash.
we clean up the beaches --
就算是,酒也不是我给的。
and if he is, I did not give it to him.
of the oceans have plastic in them.
and those big nets,
that we look at under a microscope,
用显微镜观察,
it's very expensive,
to take those big boats out.
of inventing a better way.
Hong Kong classroom into a workshop.
一个小教室变成了一个工作室。
this small workbench,
so even really short kids can participate.
小朋友也可以参加进来了。
are awesome and safe.
其实很酷炫而且很安全。
to the size we find it in the ocean,
磨成了在海里找到它们时的大小,
because it breaks down.
of my students run wild.
the best of each kid's idea
每个孩子最好的想法,
that hopefully would work.
期望能行的通的东西结合起来。
that instead of collecting plastic bits,
我们不收集塑料品了,
of the plastic with a robot --
塑料制品的图片——
we do what we call "rapid prototyping."
我们称之为“快速原型设计”。
when we're hacking it.
饭盒就被征用了。
into plumbing fixtures
装到了卫生洁具上,
that will be slowly moving through water
机器人会在水面上缓缓移动,
that we have there --
that we get in the robot.
流经感应器,
floating slowly through the sensor,
will process this image,
有一个粗略的估计了。
of how much plastic there is in the water.
this invention step by step
发明家网站上
called Instructables,
would make it even better.
was that the students saw a local problem,
孩子们自己看到了当地的问题,
to immediately address it.
试着去解决这个问题了。
非常与时俱进的孩子。
are hyperconnected kids.
他们会上网,
they watch the Internet,
cleaning up an oil spill bare-handed,
在徒手清理流出的油污,
largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh.
红树林的孙德尔本斯地区。
他们也常在这里洗澡,
this is the water they bathe in,
this is the place where they live.
这是他们赖以生存的地方。
the mud is brown and oil is brown,
泥土是棕色的,油污也是棕色的,
what's in the water.
that's rather simple,
简单原型,
of a spectrometer,
through different substances
identify what's in the water.
a local problem,
and their sense of being creative
和丰富的想象力
by doing the second experiments,
很强的使命感,
and it's also closer to my heart.
同时也是我打心底里想研究的问题。
there was a massive earthquake in Japan.
日本遭受了一次很强的地震。
several giant waves --
on the eastern coast of Japan.
很多城市。
died in an instant.
power plant of Fukushima,
into the Pacific Ocean.
has traces of contamination of cesium-137.
受到了铯-137的污染。
到处都能够发现福岛核泄露的痕迹。
you can measure Fukushima everywhere.
it can look like most of the radioactivity
你会看到似乎大部分的放射物质
from the Japanese coast,
看起来都是安全的,因为是蓝色的。
it looks like it's safe, it's blue.
more complicated than this.
every year since the accident,
在陆地上、在水里
and with other scientists,
家长们不会让我们这样做的。
the parents wouldn't allow that to happen.
to "Mission Control" --
但其实不然,
the work seriously, but they really did
with radioactivity their whole life.
放射性的环境下生活。
we collected that day,
we should be going next --
a very rough topographical map
核电站周围区域的
the nuclear power plant.
来代表核放射的实时数据,
real-time data for radioactivity,
to simulate the rainfall.
that the radioactive dust
into the river system,
we organized this expedition,
我们组织了一次探索活动,
最近的一次了。
to the nuclear power plant.
from the nuclear power plant,
收集了一些沉淀物。
we've invented and built.
to hundreds of small bags
海床放射活动的地图,
of the seabed radioactivity,
where the fish will reproduce,
安全一点。
and of your favorite sushi.
到外地的问题,最后再到世界问题。
to a remote problem to a global problem.
to work at these different scales,
真的特别爽,
非常简单和开源的。
open-source technologies.
it's been increasingly frustrating
我们过去所造成的危害。
the damage that we have done.
to try to solve the problems.
if we should just take a leap
我们能不能有一个飞跃,
to do all these things.
started to feel a little bit small,
site in Hong Kong,
the largest mega-space
and environmental impact.
金工和化学实验的地方,
with wood, metal, chemistry,
pretty much everything there.
可以一起玩的地方。
adults and kids can play together.
kids' dreams can come true,
我们经常提出这样的问题,
questions such as,
移动设备的未来吗?
with renewable energy?
of the aging population
变成很酷的电动车,
into cool, electric vehicles?
are horrible, horrible legacies,
都是非常非常可怕的残留物,
还是我们对孩子们说的谎话。
that we can leave our children is lies.
to shield the kids from the ugly truth
to invent the solutions.
梦想家们——
the environment and people,
do something about it.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Cesar Harada - Inventor, environmentalist, educatorTED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada aims to harness the forces of nature as he invents innovative remedies for man-made problems like oil spills and radioactive leaks.
Why you should listen
Cesar Harada believes that ocean currents, the wind and other naturally occuring phenomenon can provide unique inspiration and novel solutions to mankind’s worst disasters, like oil spills and radioactive leaks. A French-Japanese inventor and TED senior fellow, he is the creator of Protei, a revolutionary sailing technology -- featuring a front rudder, flexible hull and open-soure hardware -- that allows for efficient clean up of both oil and plastics from the sea. Currently based in London, Harada recently traveled to Japan and is designing Protei to measure radioactivity along the country's coast.
The general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station, Harada teaches at Goldsmiths University London. A former project leader at MIT, he graduated form the Royal College of Arts Design Interactions in London and worked at the Southampton University Hydrodynamics laboratory on wave energy. Harada has also studied animantion, and his films and installations have been seen at festivals and events across the world, from the United States to Japan.
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