3D Games for Learning is Now Closed
Thank you to everyone who submitted! We’ve received some exciting entries and are now in the process of playing through them. Awards and prizes will be announced next Friday (October 14, 2011). Watch this space!
It’s September 30! Are you wrapping up your subm...
The final day of the 3D Game for Learning competition has finally arrived! Be sure to submit your filled out concept documents by email to esoteric.game@www.playwarestudios.com, along with your physical entry on CD/DVD to our studio before 5PM …
Contest Deadline Has Been Extended to September 30...
Demands of the classroom getting in the way? Still getting up to speed with the Esoteric Worlds Editor? Late to the party? Don’t fret, the 3D Game for Learning contest deadline has been extended to September 30, giving …
Learning in Fun-Filled Virtual Dimensions
(from Schoolbag.sg ) It was a bright morning at Canberra Primary School and a class of Primary 5 pupils were standing in line outside the school’s 4Di Lab. Judging from their faces, some were looking forward to savouring …
Bringing the World Into the Classroom
(by Tan Weizhen) Without leaving the classroom, students at FutureSchool Canberra Primary can visit the rainforest, the Shanghai World Expo or a historical period in Singapore. All this thanks to a virtual reality lab unveiled yesterday – believed …
The Next Generation Train Has Arrived
(by Kenneth James) Picture a series of walls that make up a screen displaying a scene from olden days Singapore. In the scene a junk rocks gently on the Singapore river. People are going about their business on …
Speech by Mr. S. Iswaran, Senior Minister of State...
Excerpt: “Today, pupils in Canberra Primary enjoy going on trips back to Singapore in the 1950’s, then on a trip to the Shanghai Expo and even a journey deep into a tropical rainforest, all made possible by 4Di, …
Schools Still Not Using Technology Effectively
(by Tan Weizhen) SINGAPORE Three years after the FutureSchools opened their doors and opened a path for other schools to adopt advanced technologies in educating pupils, the trickle-down effect is just beginning. The test-bed environment at the six …
Hi-Tech Lab Makes Lessons Come Alive
(by Lei Jiahui) Pupils of Canberra Primary School can journey into Singapore’s past or stride into a lush, tropical rain forest- all without leaving the comfort of your classroom. Read the full article here or here
Amazon Experience for Primary Pupils
One day, the pupils of Canberra Primary may get to experience the smells of the Amazon rainforest – right in school.But for now, they have access to a room which has walls lined with large LCD touchscreens and …