TED演讲:拇指游戏
Today I am going to teach you how to play my favorite game: 今天我要教你们怎么玩我最爱的游戏： massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling. 超级多人拇指摔跤 It's the only game in the world that I know of 这是我所知的唯一一个
TED演讲:拇指游戏(2)
Now, before we get started 现在,在我们开始之前 This is great. You're excited to play. 很好。你们已经等不及了-- before we get started, can I havethe slides back up here really quick, 在我们开始之前，我在上面再放几张投
TED演讲:拇指游戏(3)
While you are basking in the glow 当你沉浸在你第一次 of having won your first massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling game, 赢得超级多人拇指摔跤比赛胜利的光荣中时 let's do a quick recap on the positive emotions. 我们来说说
TED演讲:用玩具创造世界
I've always wanted to be a cyborg. 我一直想成为一个半机械人。 One of my favorite shows as a kid was The Six Million Dollar Man, 我小时候最喜欢的电视剧之一是无敌金刚，它的造价是六百万美元。 and this is a litt
TED演讲:用玩具创造世界(2)
And you actually start this game in a drop of water, 其实是从一滴水里开始这个游戏的， as a very, very small single-cell creature, 这时你还是一个很小很小的单细胞生物， and right off the bat you basically just have to
TED演讲:用玩具创造世界(3)
Now once we mate, we click on the egg. 我们一旦交配之后，就可以点这个蛋。 And this is where the game starts getting interesting, 这样游戏就变得很有趣了， because one of the things we really focused on here was giving the
TED演讲:用玩具创造世界(4)
And then we can test it out, once we've done that, and see how it would move around. 我们完成这一项之后，就可以测试一下，让它四处走动一下。 And so at this point the computer is procedurally animating this creature. 这时，电
TED演讲:用玩具创造世界(5)
Now, as we pull down here, we still have a whole set of creatures living on the surface of the planet. 现在当我摧毁这里的时候，在这个星球上其实还居住着一系列的生物， There are all these different dynamics going on here.
TED演讲:用玩具创造世界(6)
So here's our little solar system, as we pull away from our melted planet here. 我们把视线从融化了的行星里拉远，来到我们的小小太阳系。 We actually have a couple of other planets in this solar system. 原来在这个太阳系里
TED演讲:用玩具创造世界(7)
Now as we pull away from this world -- we're going to keep pulling away from the star now. 现在，我们将视线从这个世界里移出来--我们从这个星球移出来了 One of the things that always frustrated me a little bit about astronomy
TED演讲:打游戏激起对学习的热情
So I'm here to tell you that we have a problem with boys, 我在这儿是想告诉大家我们的对男孩的教育有问题， and it's a serious problem with boys. 男孩子的教育是个严重问题。 Their culture isn't working in schools, 在学
TED演讲:打游戏激起对学习的热情(2)
When we look at the universities, 当我们环顾大学， 60 percent of baccalaureate degrees are going to women now, which is a significant shift. 目前女性占60%的本科学历的人数，这是个巨大的转变。 And in fact, university admi
TED演讲:打游戏激起对学习的热情(3)
The next reason that boys' cultures are out of sync with school cultures: 第二个原因是男孩文化与学校文化相脱节： there are fewer male teachers. 有很少的男性教师。 Anybody who's over 15 doesn't know what this means, 任何超
TED演讲:打游戏激起对学习的热情(4)
Third reason that boys are out of sync with school today: 第三个原因是男孩与我们今日的学校相脱节： kindergarten is the old second grade, folks. 幼儿园是一种过时的脱节教育。 We have a serious compression of the curric
TED演讲:打游戏激起对学习的热情(5)
Most of the educational games that are out there today are really flashcards. 今天的多数教育游戏是过时的，它们只是卡片游戏。 They're glorified drill and practice. 它们都是很耗人的和需要人们的耐心来玩。 They d
