TED演讲:怎样用科技改造人体?(1)
I call myself a body architect. 我自称为一名人体建筑师。 I trained in classical ballet and have a background in architecture and fashion. 我学过古典芭蕾,也有建筑以及时尚的相关背景。 As a body architect, I fascinate
TED演讲:怎样用科技改造人体?(2)
I'm fascinated with the idea of what happens when you merge biology with technology, 我非常着迷于这点子,要是把科技和生物学融合在一起会发生什么, and I remember reading about this idea of being able to reprogram biology,
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(1)
What is going to be the future of learning? 未来学习是什么样子的? I do have a plan, but in order for me to tell you what that plan is, I need to tell you a little story, which kind of sets the stage. 我有个计划,但是为了向你们介
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(2)
So that's a pretty strong comment there. I said schools as we know them now, they're obsolete. 这里会引来热烈的讨论。我是说我们所知道的学校已经过时了。 I'm not saying they're broken. It's quite fashionable to say that the
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(3)
Well, I bumped into this whole thing completely by accident. 一个偶然的机会让我想到这一切。 I used to teach people how to write computer programs in New Delhi, 14 years ago. 我从前教人写电脑程序,那是14年前在新德里的时
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(4)
The children came running in. It was three feet off the ground, and they said, What is this? 孩子们跑了进来。电脑离地面有3英尺,他们问:这是什么? And I said, Yeah, it's, I don't know. So... 我说:唔,这是我不知道。
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(5)
When they saw me, they said, We want a faster processor and a better mouse. 当他们看到我时,他们说:我们想要更快一点的处理器和更好一点的鼠标。 So I said, How on Earth do you know all this? 我说:你们到底是怎么
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(6)
But I was curious to know, what else would they do if they could do this much? 但我好奇地是,他们既已达到如此水平还能干些别的什么? I started experimenting with other subjects, among them, for example, pronunciation. 我开始
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(7)
The children came rushing, said, What's all this? 孩子们涌了过来问:这些都是什么? So I said, It's very topical, very important. But it's all in English. 我说:这些都是热门的,重要的东西。但都是英文写的。 So t
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(8)
So I tested them. I got an educational impossibility, zero to 30 percent in two months in the tropical heat with a computer under the tree in a language they didn't know doing something that's a decade ahead of their time. 跟着我测试了他们。我
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(9)
I got the camera angle wrong. 我把相机角度弄错了。 That one is just amateur stuff, but what she was saying, as you could make out, was about neurons, with her hands were like that, 那是张业余作品,但是她说话的内容,你们能听
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(10)
I came back to England looking for British grandmothers. 我回到英国找当地的老太太们。 I put out notices in papers saying, if you are a British grandmother, if you have broadband and a web camera, can you give me one hour of your time pe
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(11)
It's been tried all over the world, and teachers sort of stand back and say, It just happens by itself? 在世界各地尝试过,老师们后退着说:它就这么自己发生了? And I said, Yeah, it happens by itself.How did you know that? 我说
TED演讲:用"云"建立一所学校(12)
So here are a couple of images from SOLEs. 这里有一些自主教育环境的图像。 I've tried incredible, incredible questions -- When did the world begin? How will it end? to nine-year-olds. 我尝试问过一些非常惊人的问题世界是从
TED演讲:请求的艺术(1)
So, I didn't always make my living from music. 我以前并不靠音乐谋生。 For about the five years after graduating from an upstanding liberal arts university, this was my day job. 自从我五年前从一所正派的文理学院毕业起,这是