CREATIVE KIDS TOP CANVAS [Report] “Hide-and-Seek with Sound Through Electronics”

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2021.03.31
[Report] “Hide-and-Seek with Sound Through Electronics”

From a CANVAS Facebook post

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On March 20, we held an electronics workshop (program provided by Kazuyasu Komiya)!

https://www.canvas.ws/kenkyujo/report/2021320intakeshiba.php

Is it a sound game of hide-and-seek? Or an electronics project?

Today, we're going to try something a little different from our usual crafts—a project that uses electricity and electronic components, and incorporates sound!

■What Is Sound?

What can you hear? TV sounds, music, voices… there are all kinds of things, aren't there?

So why can we hear sounds?

Why can I hear the voice on the phone?

When I touch my throat while making a sound… Hmm? Is it kind of trembling? I can feel it in my hand!

While playing with string telephones… we all explored the world of sound together.

It goes without saying that we can hear sounds, but,

Actually, it might be a little strange.

　

■Hide-and-Seek with Sounds!?

This time, we looked for sounds hidden inside the research lab and had everyone else hide some too.

Electronics components I used to explore sound.

It's a light-based string phone…!

Instead of the string used in a string telephone, this device uses light to transmit sound.

It's a little strange…

All sorts of things at the research lab…

If objects could talk, what do you think they would say?

I imagined the objects chatting and recorded it.

Searching for that conversation using the thread phone of light…

We played a game of "Sound Hide-and-Seek"!

The straw hat chatters, "It's hot~" and "Wheat, wheat, wheat…"

The chair is saying, “This is heavy~ Get up already~”

The sound of disposable chopsticks clacking together is “Snap!!”

It felt as if the voices of all sorts of things were coming through, creating a lively commotion!

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Thank you for the past year and two months!!

Let's meet again someday!


　

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    Professor, Keio University; Ph.D. (Policy and Media)
    Director, B Lab
    Chairperson, Learning of Tomorrow (General Incorporated Association)
    Chairperson, CANVAS

    After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, he served as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab before founding the NPO CANVAS and the Learning of Tomorrow Association, a General Incorporated Association, and assuming the role of representative. He serves as an outside director for Matsuya Co., Ltd., Fuji Media Holdings, Inc., and Digital Garage, Inc.
    He has served on various government committees, including the Information and Communications Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, as well as the NHK Central Broadcasting Program Council. He also serves as a director of the Digital Signage Consortium, among other roles. He holds a Ph.D. in Policy and Media.
    His publications include *Turning On Children’s Creativity!*, *What Are Smart Kids Doing on Their Smartphones?*, *The Forefront of Online Education in Japan: Considering Learning in the Post-COVID Era*,“What Is Programming Education? 45 Questions Parents Want to Know,” and “Declaration on Digital Education.” He has also provided supervision for numerous works, including “Ah, I See! Programming Education for Parents and Children Through Manga.”