LJCDS Mentioned in National News
NBC 5 Chicago reached out to Upper School Science Department Chair Susan Domanico, Ph.D., for information about LJCDS’ collaboration with the Virtual Reality (VR) Club at UC San Diego. Dr. Domanico has two neuroscience classes that have benefited from experiencing VR when the UCSD VR Club brought two HTC Vive headsets to class for a demo.
Instead of reading about cell biology, or even watching a very cool video on cell biology, imagine you could shrink down small enough to go inside a cell and observe biochemical reactions up close.
And what if you could use your own hands to smash molecules together, just to see what happens?
That’s what Connor Smith envisions when he considers the future of classroom learning. Using virtual reality technology to improve education is something the University of California, San Diego senior thinks about a lot, in fact, and he’s already created a VR application that replicates the inside of the human body.
"I’ve never seen kids so interested in cell biology in my life as when they tried out Cell VR," Smith said. He cites this as one example of how "VR can really get people passionate" about learning, without realizing they're learning.
"It’s kind of like 'Magic School Bus'-esque: It can take you and make you smaller; it can take you across time," Smith said.
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