Cesar Harada: How I teach kids to love science
Cesar Harada: Jak uczę dzieci kochać nauki ścisłe
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,
but you have to clean up after yourself."
że po sobie posprzątasz".
to all these wonderful places,
do wspaniałych miejsc,
to protect us from the ugly truth.
przed paskudną prawdą.
that adults make a mess,
że dorośli też robią bałagan
at cleaning up after themselves.
at the Hong Kong Harbour School.
w szkole Harbour w Hong Kongu .
and stumble upon piles of trash.
we clean up the beaches --
and if he is, I did not give it to him.
to ja mu go nie dałem.
of the oceans have plastic in them.
wód oceanów zawiera plastik.
and those big nets,
i zarzucamy olbrzymie sieci,
that we look at under a microscope,
potem patrzymy pod mikroskopem,
it's very expensive,
to take those big boats out.
of inventing a better way.
Hong Kong classroom into a workshop.
w Hong Kongu w warsztat.
this small workbench,
małej ławki roboczej
by i niscy uczniowie mogli brać udział.
so even really short kids can participate.
are awesome and safe.
są niesamowici i bezpieczni.
to the size we find it in the ocean,
w jakich go znaleźliśmy w oceanie,
because it breaks down.
of my students run wild.
the best of each kid's idea
najlepszych pomysłów
that hopefully would work.
co miejmy nadzieję zadziała.
that instead of collecting plastic bits,
zbierania tych plastikowych kawałków,
of the plastic with a robot --
we do what we call "rapid prototyping."
when we're hacking it.
kiedy nad nim pracowaliśmy.
into plumbing fixtures
w hydrauliczne części
that will be slowly moving through water
który będzie się wolno poruszał w wodzie,
that we have there --
that we get in the robot.
floating slowly through the sensor,
wolno unoszące się przez sensor.
will process this image,
of how much plastic there is in the water.
ilość plastiku w wodzie.
this invention step by step
ten wynalazek krok po kroku
called Instructables,
dla wynalazców, zwanej "Instructables",
would make it even better.
was that the students saw a local problem,
że uczniowie dostrzegli lokalny problem
to immediately address it.
are hyperconnected kids.
to dzieciaki połączone w sieci.
they watch the Internet,
cleaning up an oil spill bare-handed,
gołymi rękoma rozlany olej
largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh.
lesie mangrowym w Bangladeszu.
this is the water they bathe in,
w której się kąpią,
this is the place where they live.
to miejsce, w którym żyją.
the mud is brown and oil is brown,
tak jak błoto i olej,
what's in the water.
that's rather simple,
of a spectrometer,
through different substances
różnych substancji
identify what's in the water.
tego co znajduje się w wodzie.
a local problem,
and their sense of being creative
by doing the second experiments,
and it's also closer to my heart.
bliższym mojemu sercu.
i w połowie Francuzem.
there was a massive earthquake in Japan.
doświadczyła potężnego trzęsienia ziemi.
several giant waves --
kilka gigantycznych fal
on the eastern coast of Japan.
na wschodnim wybrzeżu Japonii.
died in an instant.
power plant of Fukushima,
elektrownia nuklearna w Fukushimie,
into the Pacific Ocean.
has traces of contamination of cesium-137.
ma śladowe ilości cezu 137.
można znaleźć skutki Fukushimy.
you can measure Fukushima everywhere.
że większość radioaktywności
it can look like most of the radioactivity
from the Japanese coast,
it looks like it's safe, it's blue.
more complicated than this.
bardziej skomplikowana.
every year since the accident,
dokonujemy pomiarów
and with other scientists,
the parents wouldn't allow that to happen.
rodzice by się na to nie zgodzili.
to "Mission Control" --
raporty do "centrali".
the work seriously, but they really did
tej pracy poważnie, ale tak nie było,
with radioactivity their whole life.
z radioaktywnością do końca życia.
we collected that day,
we should be going next --
a very rough topographical map
ogólną mapę topograficzną
the nuclear power plant.
real-time data for radioactivity,
realne dane radioaktywności
to simulate the rainfall.
żeby symulować deszcz.
that the radioactive dust
jak radioaktywny pył
into the river system,
we organized this expedition,
zorganizowaliśmy wyprawę,
to the nuclear power plant.
tak blisko elektrowni atomowej.
from the nuclear power plant,
we've invented and built.
wynaleźliśmy i zbudowaliśmy.
na setki małych torebek,
to hundreds of small bags
of the seabed radioactivity,
where the fish will reproduce,
gdzie ryby się rozmnażają.
and of your favorite sushi.
i twojego ulubionego sushi.
to a remote problem to a global problem.
problemu, a skończyło się na globalnym.
to work at these different scales,
tak prostymi technologiami
open-source technologies.
it's been increasingly frustrating
jest coraz bardziej frustrujący
the damage that we have done.
pomiaru szkód, jakie wyrządziliśmy.
to try to solve the problems.
if we should just take a leap
czy podjąć kolejne kroki
to do all these things.
started to feel a little bit small,
site in Hong Kong,
halę przemysłową.
the largest mega-space
społecznym i środowiskowym.
and environmental impact.
w drewnie, metalu; trochę nad chemią
with wood, metal, chemistry,
pretty much everything there.
zbudować praktycznie wszystko.
adults and kids can play together.
i dzieci mogą się razem bawić.
kids' dreams can come true,
marzenia dziecięce,
questions such as,
opierać się na energii odnawialnej?
with renewable energy?
of the aging population
w poruszaniu się starszym osobom,
into cool, electric vehicles?
wózki inwalidzkie w elektryczne?
are horrible, horrible legacies,
to okropna spuścizna,
that we can leave our children is lies.
to shield the kids from the ugly truth
dzieci przed straszną prawdą,
to invent the solutions.
do szukania rozwiązań.
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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