Provide high-quality and warm science popularization for teenagers
2024-06-03
The children stared at the flickering images on the microscope screen, getting up close to understand the brain activity of zebrafish; More than 50000 people participated in popular science lectures such as "Biology of Brain Intelligence" and "Physical Education in Brain" online and offline... Recently, the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Brain Science and Intelligent Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the public science day activity of "Brain Intelligence Forging the Future", presenting a brilliant scientific feast to the public. Someone on site sighed, "Children nowadays are so lucky to have the opportunity to visit national laboratories at such a young age." Indeed, various regions are solidly promoting science popularization education, which is making more young people fall in love with the taste of science. Teenagers are the future of China's technological development and a key group for popularizing science. Adolescence is a crucial period for cultivating scientific interest, experiencing scientific processes, and developing scientific spirit. Carrying out warm science popularization for young people is an important part of stimulating their scientific interest, cultivating their exploration enthusiasm and imagination. To carry out popular science education for young people, it is necessary to follow the cognitive and growth laws of this group. The physical and mental development of human beings has stages and sequences. Scientific education must be tailored to the physical and mental characteristics of young people, gradually promoting their development, and avoiding excessive use and excessive growth. Otherwise, it will lead to a lack of speed. Excellent science popularization aimed at teenagers should be down-to-earth and childlike, not only good at stimulating their curiosity, but also helping them cultivate scientific and innovative thinking. This requires us to further improve the addition of science education. Make science popularization for teenagers more closely related to life and easy to understand. Focusing on the interests and cognitive characteristics of current teenagers, focusing on social hotspots, starting from phenomena in life, and exploring the scientific knowledge and principles behind them can better attract children's attention, enabling them to develop a keen eye for discovering scientific problems from social life. For example, science popularization expert Li Yongle is good at capturing science popularization topics from social hotspots or small things around him. His works such as "What should I do when encountering questions I don't know how to do in the college entrance examination?" "How can weak teams defeat strong teams on the football field?" "Do I get more rain when running or walking when it rains?" have received widespread attention and praise for their down-to-earth style. According to psychologist Piaget's theory of cognitive development in children, the essence of cognitive development in children is to understand new experiences through existing cognition and experience, thereby forming individual growth and development. Therefore, science popularization language for teenagers should not only be popular and interesting, but also easy to understand. Rhetoric such as metaphor, contrast, and exaggeration can be used more to transform complex principles and difficult terminology into easy to understand language, helping them better understand scientific knowledge. In a lecture on Earth knowledge in primary and secondary schools, petrologist Wang Dezi compared the Earth to a peach and pointed out that the peach core is like the Earth's core, the peach flesh is like the mantle, and the peach skin is like the Earth's crust. This vivid and clever metaphor immediately sparked the children's interest. In addition, some science popularization videos targeting teenagers often use anthropomorphic character settings or engage in knowledge dissemination through scene dialogue, which makes it easier for teenagers to immerse themselves in scientific scenes, improve their information acceptance, and make the dissemination of scientific knowledge more interesting and dynamic. Enable youth science popularization to better care for children's curiosity. Children are in a period of strong thirst for knowledge, and every day they will come up with a hundred thousand strange "whys". Behind every question, it is actually teenagers observing and exploring the world. These questions may seem simple, but they actually contain rich scientific principles, making them a good starting point for popular science. Respect every "cute" question of teenagers and guide them step by step to find answers, explore the maze of science, and believe that every seed of curiosity can grow into a towering tree. Wu Yuren, a retired physics professor at Tongji University, collected interesting questions from netizens as inspiration for popular science creation. On social media, many popular science works use interrogative sentences in their titles, such as "Say Goodbye to Awkwardness! How to Drink Yogurt Elegantly Until Not a Drop Remains?" and "Danger! Only 1% Battery Remains! How to Completely Get rid of Battery Anxiety?". Strange and quirky questions can stimulate teenagers' desire for scientific exploration, or poke the public's knowledge blind spots, guiding more people to embark on a journey of curiosity. Maintain a balance between science and humanities in youth science popularization. Several scholars have pointed out that youth science popularization should be based on learning knowledge and cultivating thinking. The current youth science popularization has shifted from simple knowledge dissemination to value leadership. To cultivate the scientific literacy of young people, it is not only necessary to make them aware of the nature, but also to understand the reasons behind it, helping them develop thinking methods that view the world and think about problems with a scientific perspective. Storytelling has always been a popular way of popularizing science. "I have found a way to talk to young people and tell stories." Academician Wang Pinxian, who has millions of fans, often uses the stories and scientific anecdotes of scientists to spread ocean knowledge to young people and elucidate the innovative nature of science. Storytelling can spread scientific knowledge in a form that is popular among young people, and can also activate the scientific methods, attitudes, and spirit behind scientific knowledge. High quality science education is a companion for children to explore the world. Fully studying and respecting the cognitive characteristics and needs of young people, stimulating their enthusiasm for scientific exploration, will sow more seeds of innovation for the construction of a technological powerhouse. (Lai Xin She)
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