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Discovery

David Ng

How can we embed biodiversity in our children’s lives, and harness its potential to elicit that sensation of discovery? A good but possibly naïve answer is to just urge children to break away from the digital images, and to encourage them to simply go outside more. Or perhaps, more interestingly, we can try to partner the tools of our media rich culture with tasks that involve the outside world. We can have computer games that require the act of leaving the computer: television that tells you to stop watching. Curiously, with the current trends in mobile technology, this type of collaboration is more than doable.

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"I am responsible for the ongoing supervision of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory (AMBL) at The University of British Columbia. This is the educational arm of the Michael Smith Laboratories, first conceived by the late Nobel Laureate, Dr. Michael Smith to provide science learning experiences for both general public and scientific communities. This includes a bifocal mandate to train scientists (university students and faculty) in areas of my specific expertise, and to inform the public at large on the societal, cultural, corporate, political, economic, and ethical nuances of the general sciences, and life sciences in particular."

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