math education – Marin Science Seminar

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022

Video Games, The Metaverse and the Future of Science Education

with Dane Lancaster of XRMarin and the Marin County Office of Education

Wednesday, September 28, 2022; 7:30-8:30 pm; Terra Linda HS Innovation Hub

What is the Science MetaVerse? The new paradigm for STEM education…. Learning in 3D through movement, experience, and discovery. Check out how high school and college students around the world are using Virtual and Augmented Reality to enhance STEM learning. You will get to demo some advanced educational VR content in Math, Chemistry and Biology.

Dane Lancaster is the Director of XRMarin, a program of the Marin County Office of Education. Dane’s current efforts are directed towards the application of XR ML and AI for learning, data visualization, design, and collaboration in education and the enterprise. XRMarin is a regional training center for students, educators and the community interested in immersive education and innovation in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. XRMarin offers a variety of student academies, classes, art programs and community workshops that advance the application of these emerging technologies that are certain to impact the way we learn, work, and play. In his previous role as Marin County Office of Education CTO he was responsible technology and information systems supporting Marin County school districts. He has BS in Chemistry from the University of Akron. Earlier in his career he founded the Biofeedback Institute of Marin and taught psychology and computer science at the College of Marin.

Dane Lancaster of XMarin — Dane Lancaster of XRMarin

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October 2, 2008

Jump in!

The water’s fine! If you’ve been invited to post to the blog, you can do so. Also note that *anyone* can comment. Some teachers are offering extra credit for blogging at least 5 relevant sentences about a science seminar session. Why not go for it? Here’s my five sentences.

Regarding this evening’s lecture by Dr. David Saloner, I was pretty amazed by how they could create 3-D maps of the arteries and then measure the blood flow through various parts of them. Then they can look at the same arteries over a period of years and tell how they had changed. They could tell the change both in terms of how fast or slow the blood was flowing in different areas, and in how big the arteries were getting because of arteriosclerosis. This helps not only charting the progress of the disease, but also helps see how different medical therapies might be working over time. It made me wish that I had taken more math in school and made me glad that the kids at the MSS were getting to see all the cool things you can do with math. I didn’t get to see that when I was in high school.

What did you find interesting?

August 16, 2008

Welcome!

Welcome to the Marin Science Seminar Blog! This blog is open for students, parents, teachers and MSS speakers to post and comment on items of interest in the fields of science, math, engineering, medicine, statistics and related fields.

We are currently recruiting staff to contribute to the blog. If you are a high school student in the San Rafael High School district and are interested, please email me at marinscienceseminar@gmail.com with your school, grade, and science teacher´s name. I will then send you information on becoming part of the staff. Teachers and MSS speakers are also welcome to join. Student posts can be anonymous or made under a pseudonym, but I need to confirm that you are a real person. 🙂

If you would like to be a casual poster to the blog, email me at marinscienceseminar@gmail.com with your full name, whether you are a student or adult and your association with the MSS. Anyone can post comments to MSS posts.

We are putting together an exciting second season of the Marin Science Seminar for 2008-2009. Check out the calendar and feel free to post relevant ideas, comments, links, videos, etc.

Looking forward,

Alfia