Cesar Harada: How I teach kids to love science
سيزار هارادا: كيف أقوم بتعليم الأطفال ليحبوا العلوم
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,
كان والداي دائما ما يقولان لي،
but you have to clean up after yourself."
ولكن عليك أن تُنظّف ذلك بنفسك."
to all these wonderful places,
إلى كل تلك الأماكن الرائعة،
من البراءة --
to protect us from the ugly truth.
من الحقيقة المرة.
that adults make a mess,
يتسببون بالفوضى،
at cleaning up after themselves.
at the Hong Kong Harbour School.
بمدرسة هونغ كونغ هاربر.
and stumble upon piles of trash.
على الشاطئ والتعثر بأكوام من القمامة.
we clean up the beaches --
قمنا بتنظيف الشواطئ --
and if he is, I did not give it to him.
فأنا لم أعطه ذلك.
of the oceans have plastic in them.
تحتوي على البلاستيك.
and those big nets,
that we look at under a microscope,
لفحصها تحت المجهر،
it's very expensive,
وسيكلف تكلفة باهضة،
to take those big boats out.
خطر جدا.
بين 6 و 15 سنة،
of inventing a better way.
Hong Kong classroom into a workshop.
إلى ورشة عمل.
this small workbench,
so even really short kids can participate.
قصيري القامة من المشاركة.
are awesome and safe.
لأدوات القوة هم آمنون ورائعون.
to the size we find it in the ocean,
الذي نجده به في المحيط،
because it breaks down.
لأنه يتفتت.
of my students run wild.
the best of each kid's idea
الأفكار التي يأتي بها الأطفال
that hopefully would work.
يمكن أن ينجح.
that instead of collecting plastic bits,
of the plastic with a robot --
للبلاستيك بواسطة الروبوت --
we do what we call "rapid prototyping."
ما يُسمّى "النماذج الأولية السريعة."
النماذج الأولية
when we're hacking it.
الطعام حين نقوم بقص ذلك.
into plumbing fixtures
وكاميرات الواب كأجهزة سمكرة
that will be slowly moving through water
يتحرك ببطئ عبر الماء
that we have there --
that we get in the robot.
في الروبوت.
floating slowly through the sensor,
ببطء من خلال أجهزة الاستشعار،
will process this image,
of how much plastic there is in the water.
لكمية البلاستيك الموجودة بالمياه.
this invention step by step
خطوة بخطوة
called Instructables,
يُدعى "انستراكتبل"،
would make it even better.
was that the students saw a local problem,
الأطفال لمشكلة محلية،
to immediately address it.
are hyperconnected kids.
دائما ما كانوا على علم بكل التحديثات.
they watch the Internet,
cleaning up an oil spill bare-handed,
يقوم بتنظيف تسرّب نفط و هوعاري اليدين،
largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh.
في بنغلاديش.
this is the water they bathe in,
ويستحمون به،
this is the place where they live.
هذا هو المكان الذين يعيشون فيه.
the mud is brown and oil is brown,
من الماء والطين والنفط،
what's in the water.
يوجد بالماء.
that's rather simple,
بسيطة نوعا ما،
ما يوجد بالماء.
of a spectrometer,
تقريبي لسبكترومتر،
through different substances
identify what's in the water.
ما يوجد في الماء.
a local problem,
and their sense of being creative
وحس الابداع
by doing the second experiments,
بتجارب أخرى،
and it's also closer to my heart.
وذلك أقرب إلى قلبي.
there was a massive earthquake in Japan.
الذي حصل في اليابان في 2011.
several giant waves --
لدرجة أنه أثار عدة موجات عملاقة --
on the eastern coast of Japan.
على الساحل الشرقي لليابان.
died in an instant.
14000 شخص.
power plant of Fukushima,
في فوكوشيما،
into the Pacific Ocean.
في المحيط الهادي.
has traces of contamination of cesium-137.
137 بالمحيط الهادي بأكمله.
you can measure Fukushima everywhere.
بإمكانك قياس فوكوشيما في كل مكان.
it can look like most of the radioactivity
يبدو أن معظم النشاط الإشعاعي
from the Japanese coast,
it looks like it's safe, it's blue.
more complicated than this.
أكثر مما تبدو عليه.
every year since the accident,
كل عام منذ الحادث،
and with other scientists,
وبصحبة علماء آخرين،
the parents wouldn't allow that to happen.
يوافقوا على ذلك بالطبع.
to "Mission Control" --
"وحدة مراقبة المهمة" --
the work seriously, but they really did
ولكنهم بالفعل قاموا بذلك
with radioactivity their whole life.
طوال حياتهم.
we collected that day,
في ذلك اليوم،
we should be going next --
a very rough topographical map
طبوغرافية
the nuclear power plant.
real-time data for radioactivity,
بيانات النشاط الإشعاعي،
to simulate the rainfall.
لتمثيل هطول الأمطار.
that the radioactive dust
المُشع
into the river system,
إلى نظام النهر،
we organized this expedition,
نظمنا هذه الحملة،
to the nuclear power plant.
من محطة توليد الطاقة النووية.
from the nuclear power plant,
محطة توليد الطاقة النووية،
we've invented and built.
باختراعها وصنعها.
to hundreds of small bags
of the seabed radioactivity,
لقاع البحر،
where the fish will reproduce,
حيث تتكاثر الأسماك،
and of your favorite sushi.
والسوشي المفضل لديكم.
to a remote problem to a global problem.
إلى مشكلة عالمية.
to work at these different scales,
مختلف المستويات،
open-source technologies.
it's been increasingly frustrating
محبطا على نحو متزايد
the damage that we have done.
الذي تسببنا به.
to try to solve the problems.
لهذه المشاكل.
if we should just take a leap
القيام بقفزة
to do all these things.
للقيام بكل هذه الأشياء.
started to feel a little bit small,
بصغر حجم القسم،
site in Hong Kong,
في هونغ كونغ،
the largest mega-space
كبيرة تهتم
and environmental impact.
with wood, metal, chemistry,
بالخشب والمعدن والكيمياء،
pretty much everything there.
adults and kids can play together.
والأطفال اللعب معا.
kids' dreams can come true,
أن تتحقق،
questions such as,
with renewable energy?
باستعمال الطاقة المتجددة؟
of the aging population
الفئة المسنة
into cool, electric vehicles?
إلى سيارات كهربائية ممتعة؟
are horrible, horrible legacies,
والنشاط الإشعاعي إرثا مُروّعا،
that we can leave our children is lies.
هو الأكاذيب.
to shield the kids from the ugly truth
من الحقيقة المرة
to invent the solutions.
لابتكار الحلول.
اقتباس"الخيال أهم من المعرفة" آينشتاين
the environment and people,
do something about it.
حيال ذلك.
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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