TED演讲：棋盘游戏让孩子们对学校感到兴奋
字幕摘录
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| 0:04 | At a very young age of less than one year old, a violent civil war broke out in my home | 年幼不到一岁的时候,我家爆发了激烈的内战 |
| 0:09 | country of the Democratic Republic of Congo. | 刚果民主共和国 |
| 0:12 | As a result, my family was forced to flee, and as luck could have it, we found safety | 结果,我的家人被迫逃离,幸运的是,我们找到了安全 |
| 0:17 | in Kiangwa refugee camp, located in western Uganda, where I grew up from and have learned | 在位于乌干达西部的Kiangwa难民营,我从那里长大,从那里学到很多东西。 |
| 0:22 | to call home for the past 24 years. | 过去24年中 一直打电话回家 |
| 0:25 | Every morning, my two parents would wake up at 5 a.m. and leave for the fields, where | 每天早上,我父母早上五点醒来 离开田地 |
| 0:29 | they went to cultivate our small garden to plant maize and beans to feed the family. | 他们去种我们的小花园 种玉米和豆子养家 |
| 0:34 | And every evening when they came back home, they would end the night in the same way. | 每晚他们回家时 都会以同样的方式结束夜晚 |
| 0:39 | Usually, they would gather me and my siblings and would give us a pep talk on how much they | 他们通常会召集我和我的兄弟姐妹 并告诉我们他们有多少钱 |
| 0:43 | desired to see us go to school and be educated. | 希望看到我们上学和接受教育。 |
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| 1 | At a very young age of less than one year old, a violent civil war broke out in my home | 年幼不到一岁的时候,我家爆发了激烈的内战 |
| 2 | country of the Democratic Republic of Congo. | 刚果民主共和国 |
| 3 | As a result, my family was forced to flee, and as luck could have it, we found safety | 结果,我的家人被迫逃离,幸运的是,我们找到了安全 |
| 4 | in Kiangwa refugee camp, located in western Uganda, where I grew up from and have learned | 在位于乌干达西部的Kiangwa难民营,我从那里长大,从那里学到很多东西。 |
| 5 | to call home for the past 24 years. | 过去24年中 一直打电话回家 |
| 6 | Every morning, my two parents would wake up at 5 a.m. and leave for the fields, where | 每天早上,我父母早上五点醒来 离开田地 |
| 7 | they went to cultivate our small garden to plant maize and beans to feed the family. | 他们去种我们的小花园 种玉米和豆子养家 |
| 8 | And every evening when they came back home, they would end the night in the same way. | 每晚他们回家时 都会以同样的方式结束夜晚 |
| 9 | Usually, they would gather me and my siblings and would give us a pep talk on how much they | 他们通常会召集我和我的兄弟姐妹 并告诉我们他们有多少钱 |
| 10 | desired to see us go to school and be educated. | 希望看到我们上学和接受教育。 |
| 11 | Surprisingly, none of my parents actually had gone to school, but to them, education | 出人意料的是,我父母都没有去上学 但对他们来说,教育 |
| 12 | meant securing a well-paying job at some point in the future. | 意味着在将来某个时候获得一份报酬丰厚的工作. |
| 13 | And with this, we had afforded three meals a day. | 有了这个,我们一天可以吃三餐。 |
| 14 | We perhaps could build a nice looking house for our family, or even decide to take our | 我们也许可以为我们的家人建个漂亮的房子 或者甚至决定带走我们 |
| 15 | family from the refugee camp to the city. | 从难民营到城市的家庭。 |
| 16 | And so, when I started going to school, I took this at heart, and I took school seriously. | 所以,当我开始上学时,我把这一点放在心上,我认真对待学校。 |
| 17 | Even though I was just a little kid, I managed to wake myself out of bed, take our three | 虽然我还是个孩子,我还是从床上醒过来, 带着我们三个 |
| 18 | girls to Greece, and be back on time to dress up and go to school. | 女孩们去希腊, 准时回来打扮和上学。 |
| 19 | Classes in the refugee camp can be overcrowded. | 难民营的班级可能人满为患。 |
| 20 | I was one of the nearly 200 students who sat in a single classroom as I tried to focus | 我是将近200名学生之一 坐在一个教室里 当我试图集中精神 |
| 21 | and learn. | 并学习。 |
| 22 | But besides the problem of overcrowded classrooms, we also had an issue whereby most of our learning | 但是除了教室过于拥挤的问题之外 我们还有个问题 我们大部分的学习 |
| 23 | was characterized by rote memorization. | 其特点是轮回记忆。 |
| 24 | On a typical day, we showed up in a classroom, copped down notes that teachers gave us, and | 在一个典型的一天,我们出现在一个教室里, 绑下笔记,老师给我们, |
| 25 | we were expected to go back home, cram this in preparation for exams. | 我们被期望回家, 塞这个准备考试。 |
| 26 | And if I can be honest with you, I did not enjoy this. | 如果我能跟你说实话,我不喜欢这样 |
| 27 | We barely interacted with our teachers, and even among us ourselves. | 我们几乎不与老师互动 甚至我们自己之间 |
| 28 | And even though I was a serious student, most of the time school seemed to be very boring. | 虽然我是一个认真的学生,但大多数时间的学校似乎都很无聊. |
| 29 | However, as I was growing up and as I took on the routine of going to school in the morning | 然而,当我长大了, 当我在早上开始上学的例行公事 |
| 30 | and then coming back to my family in the evening, there seemed to be one thing, and one thing | 晚上回到我家里 似乎有一件事 还有一件事 |
| 31 | only, that truly held my attention. | 只是,这真的吸引了我的注意力。 |
| 32 | And that was the idea of playing games. | 这就是玩游戏的想法。 |
| 33 | And I most loved playing the game of football. | 我最爱踢足球 |
| 34 | Now I will start off by addressing the biggest elephant in the room. | 现在,我首先要谈谈 房间里最大的大象。 |
| 35 | I know most of you love American football, but actually, that's not the game I'm talking about. | 我知道你们大多喜欢美式足球,但实际上,这不是我说的游戏. |
| 36 | I'm 5'3", and given my size, I truly can't play American football. | 我身高5尺3寸,鉴于我的体型,我真的不能打美国足球. |
| 37 | So I'm actually talking about football while we use our feet, and that's soccer. | 所以我在谈论足球,而我们用脚, 那就是足球。 |
| 38 | I also loved playing the cards of spades, and most of the time after school, I would | 我也喜欢玩黑桃牌 大部分放学后,我会 |
| 39 | come to my house and I would be holding a deck of cards. | 到我家来,我会拿着一张牌 |
| 40 | And every time my parents saw me shuffling these cards, they would be paranoid, thinking | 每次我父母看到我打这些牌, 他们就会偏执,想 |
| 41 | I had started gambling. | 我开始赌博了 |
| 42 | But I wasn't, and perhaps because I didn't even have money to do so. | 但我没有,也许因为 我甚至没有钱这样做。 |
| 43 | No wonder, while in high school in 2016, the idea of gamification became the best solution | 难怪2016年高中的时候 游戏化的想法成了最好的解决方案 |
| 44 | I thought about I could use to address the problem in the refugee camp. | 我想,我可以用来解决难民营的问题。 |
| 45 | And since then, I've been on a quest to make education more accessible and more fun and | 从那时起,我一直在寻求 使教育更容易获得 和更多的乐趣, |
| 46 | engaging for children within the Kiangwa refugee camp through the use of board games. | 利用棋盘游戏在Kiangwa难民营内雇用儿童。 |
| 47 | And if you don't mind, I'm going to share with you how it all happened. | 如果你不介意,我会告诉你 这一切是如何发生的。 |
| 48 | One year before, in 2015, I was lucky and got an opportunity to go and study at Africa | 一年前,在2015年,我很幸运,有机会去非洲学习 |
| 49 | Leadership Academy, located in Johannesburg, South Africa. | 领导学院,位于南非约翰内斯堡. |
| 50 | And here, I was introduced to the idea of entrepreneurship for the first time. | 在这里,我第一次被介绍到创业的想法。 |
| 51 | And my amazing teachers taught me that entrepreneurs were simply problem solvers. | 我惊人的老师教我,企业家只是解决问题。 |
| 52 | And I immediately knew that I wanted to work on an educational problem. | 我立刻知道 我想研究一个教育问题。 |
| 53 | The first idea I thought, I could build a primary school, more children would access | 我第一个想法是,我可以建一所小学, 更多的孩子可以进入 |
| 54 | the learning spaces, teachers would not have the problem of overcrowded classrooms. | 学习空间,教师不会有教室过于拥挤的问题。 |
| 55 | But the problem was, I was 19 years old, didn't have the money, didn't have the skills of | 但问题是,我19岁,没有钱,没有技能 |
| 56 | what it took to build a primary school. | 建造小学所花费的 |
| 57 | The second idea I thought, I could advocate for a well equipped library. | 第二个想法是,我可以倡导一个设备齐全的图书馆。 |
| 58 | With this, we would have enough textbooks in the library, and children would have enough | 有了这个,我们就会有足够的教科书 在图书馆,孩子们会有足够的 |
| 59 | reading materials. | 阅读材料。 |
| 60 | They would do well at school in performing international exams. | 他们在学校进行国际考试时表现很好。 |
| 61 | However, I had one issue with the library. | 然而,我有一个问题 与图书馆。 |
| 62 | You see, food can be scarce in the refugee camp. | 你看,难民营里的食物很少 |
| 63 | And several times when I showed up at school, I personally remembered every time I entered | 当我在学校出现的时候 我个人记得 每次我进学校的时候 |
| 64 | in the library, all I could think about was food. | 在图书馆里,我能想到的只是食物 |
| 65 | More than anything, I needed a solution that was cheap, a solution that was scalable and | 我更需要一个便宜的解决方案 一个可以伸缩的解决方案 |
| 66 | something that would be very exciting to the children. | 孩子们会很兴奋的 |
| 67 | Something that somehow would help these children forget about their hunger and then engage | 帮助这些孩子忘记饥饿 然后参与 |
| 68 | with learning. | 与学习。 |
| 69 | But also something that would help teachers have control on overcrowded classrooms. | 也帮助教师控制过度拥挤的教室。 |
| 70 | But most importantly, help children engage with the algebra, with the science they were | 但最重要的是,帮助儿童接触代数 和他们的科学 |
| 71 | learning and have fun every single day they came to school. | 每天都在学着玩 |
| 72 | And so, even though I had never taken drawing classes, I picked up a pencil and got some | 所以,尽管我从来没有参加过绘画课, 我拿起铅笔,得到了一些 |
| 73 | courage to start making sketches of what would be my first board game. | 勇敢地开始画我的第一局棋盘游戏 |
| 74 | I also generated a number of trivial questions and then called up my former primary school | 我还问了一些小问题 然后打电话给我以前的小学 |
| 75 | teacher in Kiangwa Refugee Camp and asked if I could visit my primary school once again. | 并问我是否可以再次访问我的小学。 |
| 76 | He was generous and he said yes. | 他很慷慨,他答应了 |
| 77 | When I showed up at my former primary school, the kids were excited. | 当我出现在我的前小学时,孩子们都很兴奋. |
| 78 | And most of them jumped out of their seats when I told them what I held in my hands was | 当我告诉他们我手中的东西时 他们大多跳出座位 |
| 79 | a board game. | 游戏 |
| 80 | Surprisingly, none of them actually knew even how the game was played. | 出人意料的是,他们中没有任何人甚至知道游戏是如何玩的. |
| 81 | But hearing it was a board game, they were thrilled. | 但听说是棋盘游戏 他们很激动 |
| 82 | Working with the teachers and the school administration, they gave me about one hour to test out the | 跟老师和学校管理部门合作 他们给我一个小时来测试 |
| 83 | game for the next couple of weeks. | 接下来几周的比赛 |
| 84 | And the game was a huge success. | 游戏取得了巨大成功。 |
| 85 | So much so that the next morning, my mom walked me out of bed telling me that there was a | 所以第二天早上 我妈妈送我上床 对我说有个 |
| 86 | group of children wearing my school uniform looking for me. | 一群穿着校服的孩子在找我 |
| 87 | I was still confused because it was about 6 a.m. in the morning. | 我仍然很困惑 因为那天早上六点左右 |
| 88 | But I woke up out of my bed, stayed in my address actually, and then opened the door. | 但我从床上醒来, 留在我的地址,然后开门。 |
| 89 | There was about six children and when I looked at them, there were about two faces that I | 有大约六个孩子 当我看着他们, 有大约两个面孔,我 |
| 90 | could recognize. | 可以识别。 |
| 91 | There was James and Patrick, two of the children I had worked with the previous day. | 有詹姆斯和帕特里克, 两个孩子 我工作前一天。 |
| 92 | And with the innocent faces that I probably have ever seen, they were like, could you | 和无辜的面孔 我可能见过, 他们喜欢,你会 |
| 93 | come and join us at school and then we play the game before school starts? | 到学校来加入我们 然后在学校开课前玩游戏? |
| 94 | And looking at their faces, there was no way I was going to say no. | 看他们的脸,我不可能说不。 |
| 95 | I said I would dress up and meet you over by school. | 我说我会穿好衣服 在学校等你 |
| 96 | And this group of amazing children became my early testers. | 这群惊人的孩子成为了我的早期测试者。 |
| 97 | We would play the game in the morning and then in the afternoon as they waited for their | 我们早上玩游戏,下午等他们 |
| 98 | afternoon shift. | 下午轮班。 |
| 99 | And today, the game has evolved into what my team and I at My Home Stars, an nonprofit | 而今天,游戏已经演变成 我和我的团队 在我的家星,一个非营利 |
| 100 | we are running in Uganda, have called the Five Stars Education Board Game. | 我们在乌干达运行, 已经叫 五星教育局游戏。 |
| 101 | And here's how the Five Stars Education Board works. | 五星级教育委员会就是这样运作的. |
| 102 | At the beginning, a classroom divides itself in two groups of five children. | 一开始,一个教室将自己分成两组五个孩子. |
| 103 | And these children begin interacting with one another on questions and content we've | 这些孩子开始互相交流 我们的问题和内容 |
| 104 | developed in partnership with a group of 16 teachers. | 与16名教师合作制定。 |
| 105 | All this content is a reflection of the actual content covered in the Uganda education | 所有这些内容都反映了乌干达教育所涉及的实际内容。 |
| 106 | curriculum of mathematics, English, science and social studies. | 数学、英语、科学和社会研究课程。 |
| 107 | And as they interact, they get to earn points for every trivial question they get right. | 当他们互相影响时, 他们可以得到每个小问题的分数。 |
| 108 | And they use these points to advance around the star-shaped board, with the goal of being | 他们利用这些点环绕星形板前进 目标是 |
| 109 | the first one to enter the middle and take on the big yellow star, which usually gets | 第一个进入中间 并接上大黄星, 这通常得到 |
| 110 | children very excited. | 孩子们非常兴奋。 |
| 111 | My team and I also have worked together to incorporate game mechanics such as chance | 我和我的团队也一起合作 加入了诸如机会之类的游戏力学 |
| 112 | and geography, where children actually can earn extra points when they collaborate and | 在地理和地理上,儿童在合作时实际上可以赚取额外的分数, |
| 113 | help each other on difficult trivial questions. | 互相帮助解决一些小问题 |
| 114 | This has been intended to make sure that children are actually learning the components of communication | 这样做是为了确保儿童实际学习交流的内容。 |
| 115 | and working together in teams. | 团队合作 |
| 116 | But also, it makes learning become more child-centered, and actually, teachers can focus on groups | 也让学习更加以儿童为中心 事实上,老师可以专注于群体 |
| 117 | of children that are struggling most. | 在最困难的儿童。 |
| 118 | A model that we are finding to be very helpful in communities such as Refugee Camp, where | 我们发现这种模式对难民营等社区很有帮助。 |
| 119 | most of the time, we don't have enough teachers. | 大多数时候,我们没有足够的老师。 |
| 120 | And there's one particular reason as to why my team and I decided to call the game | 我和我的球队为什么决定把比赛叫来 |
| 121 | The Five Stars. | 五星报. |
| 122 | And it's simply the conviction that, no matter where you're from and the current existing | 很简单的信念是 无论你来自哪里 以及现在的 |
| 123 | circumstances, we can all reach for the stars. | 环境,我们都能够到达恒星。 |
| 124 | And like Neil deGrasse Tyson would put it, not only do we live among the stars, the stars | 就像尼尔·德格拉斯·泰森所言 我们不仅生活在恒星中 |
| 125 | themselves live within us. | 他们活在我们体内。 |
| 126 | And that includes children from Refugee Camps. | 其中包括难民营的儿童。 |
| 127 | And as children also start playing the game, we encourage them not to use their actual | 随着孩子们也开始玩游戏, 我们鼓励他们不要使用他们的实际 |
| 128 | names, but actually to take on the characters of the five brightest stars in the galaxy. | 名字,但实际上 承担字符 在银河系最亮的五颗恒星。 |
| 129 | And that's Canopus, Rigel, Octorus, Vega, and then Sirius. | 还有卡诺普斯,里格尔,奥克托鲁斯,维加,然后是天狼星. |
| 130 | And also, when we hand them the board game, we remind them that they're already stars | 而且,当我们把棋盘游戏交给他们时, 我们提醒他们,他们已经是明星了 |
| 131 | who are interacting with one another to help each other just shine a little bit brighter. | 他们互相交流 互相帮助 只是闪亮一点 |
| 132 | And perhaps our biggest impact was realized in 2020 and 2021. | 也许我们最大的影响是在2020年和2021年实现的。 |
| 133 | Like most of you remember, these are the two years when COVID-19 pandemic decided to visit | 和你们大多数人一样,这是两年 COVID-19大流行决定访问 |
| 134 | us. | 我们 |
| 135 | And during this time, classes in the Refugee Camp closed and children were sent home with | 在此期间,难民营的班级关闭,儿童被送回家。 |
| 136 | no way of accessing learning resources. | 无法获取学习资源。 |
| 137 | My team and I took on the challenge to make learning happen within homes. | 我和我的团队承担了挑战 让学习在家中实现。 |
| 138 | And we produced about 1,000 game packages that we gave to teachers and community leaders. | 我们制作了大约1000套游戏, 我们给了教师和社区领袖。 |
| 139 | And with this, we're able to help about 5,000 children to access home learning in the most | 有了这个,我们就能帮助大约5000个孩子 获得家庭学习最多 |
| 140 | fun and engaging way through the use of board games. | 玩游戏的乐趣和接触 |
| 141 | Today, we are working with five schools in Kangua Refugee Camp, where we've actually | 今天,我们正与五所学校合作 在Kangua难民营,我们实际上 |
| 142 | been able to work with school administration to make the five stars part of the learning | 能够与学校行政部门合作,使五星成为学习的一部分 |
| 143 | schedules. | 时间表。 |
| 144 | In the morning, children spend the morning time learning the normal classes they're supposed | 早上,孩子们花时间 学习正常的课 |
| 145 | to take in the curriculum and then spend about one hour in the afternoon to put what they've | 然后在下午花大约一个小时 将他们拥有的东西 |
| 146 | learned in the morning into practice. | 早上学会的 练习。 |
| 147 | Beyond being a game that is helping children master the curriculum content and do well | 不仅是一个帮助儿童掌握课程内容并做得很好的游戏 |
| 148 | in the national exam, my team and I are committed to continue building the five stars into a | 国家考试中,我和我的团队 承诺继续建设五星 |
| 149 | learning resource that will continue to put a smile on these children's faces every single | 学习资源 继续给孩子们的面孔带来微笑 |
| 150 | day they come to class and the game that can continue to inspire them into what is possible | 一天,他们来上课, 游戏可以继续激励他们 进入可能的东西 |
| 151 | for them in the future. | 将来要给他们 |
| 152 | And also, we are committed to continue building this game into a game that we shall be able | 我们还承诺继续把游戏建设成一个游戏,我们将能够 |
| 153 | to make available to other children in other refugee camps across Uganda and other countries | * 向乌干达和其他国家境内其他难民营的其他儿童提供 |
| 154 | across the African continent. | 整个非洲大陆 |
| 155 | In the past one year, about 100 million people across the world have been displaced. | 在过去的一年中,全世界约有1亿人流离失所。 |
| 156 | And many of these are as a result of a civil war. | 而其中很多是内战的结果. |
| 157 | From Kianguara Refugee Camp in Western Uganda to New York City and standing in front of | 从乌干达西部的Kianguara难民营到纽约市,站在前方 |
| 158 | you today and engaging with you is a big, big, big privilege. | 今天与你接触 是一个很大的特权 |
| 159 | And the only reason I'm able to do so and stand in front of you is because I've been | 我之所以能这样做 站在你面前 是因为我曾经 |
| 160 | given an opportunity to go to school. | 提供了上学的机会。 |
| 161 | And while board games such as the five stars will not be able to solve some of the world's | 虽然棋盘游戏,如五星 将无法解决一些世界的 |
| 162 | complex problems of the 21st century, like refugee crisis and displacement, I strongly | 21世纪的复杂问题,如难民危机和流离失所问题,我强烈呼吁 |
| 163 | believe that you and I that are here today, that happen to bear it a bit privilege, bear | 相信你和我今天在这里 碰巧有一点特权,熊 |
| 164 | the responsibility to continue building platforms and systems that will help refugee children | 继续建立帮助难民儿童的平台和系统的责任 |
| 165 | imagine a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities. | 想象他们自己、家人和社区有一个更美好的未来。 |
| 166 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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