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Playware Celebrates Teachers! We are delighted to invite you to the Award Ceremony for the National 3D Games-for-Learning Competition held in the 3rd quarter of 2011. Over 400 teachers were involved in constructing game-designs-for-learning. Despite tremendous work and …

The winners for the 3D Game-for-Learning Competition have been announced. Congratulations to all! Link: 3D Game-for-Learning Winners

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!

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 …

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 …

(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 …

(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 …

(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 …

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, …

(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 …

(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

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 …

SingTel is leading the consortium that has won the bid to implement the FutureSchools@Singapore project at Canberra Primary School. The consortium’s efforts will support the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) Teach Less, Learn More (TLLM) initiative and help to …

SINGAPORE A few months from now, students studying in one of the Future Schools in Singapore will walk in without books or other tools. They will enter their learning lab and depending on the subject, the walls around …

Officially opened on Tuesday, the imbX (Infocomm Media Business Exchange) 2009 is a platform where ICT companies, their technologies and users meet at the signature CommunicAsia tradeshow. The annual event comprises a conference and exhibition showfloor. Under the …

Imagine a classroom that can house any virtual environment. A virtual environment completely immersive and interactive, enabling the teachers to take their students on an interactive journey to the past, present or future. Imagine students interacting with atoms …