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DISAPPEAR down a blue hole. Re-appear in a vessel swimming with red and white blood cells. Or go through another portal and re-emerge in a garden.
That visually dazzling 'welcome' was part of the virtual world Beacon Primary showed to clearly impressed parents on its orientation for them on Thursday.
The school, in Bukit Panjang, is new but it has more applicants than places.
Beacon is a 'Future School', one of five chosen to adopt technology to spearhead innovation in teaching and learning.
The others are Canberra Primary, Jurong Secondary, Crescent Girls' School and Hwa Chong Institution.
'We are not a technology school which teaches technology. We are harnessing the possibilities of technology into our programme,' Beacon's principal, Ms Lim Boon Cheng, told the parents of its pioneer batch of 240 Primary 1 pupils on Thursday.
Beacon's brave new world includes a 3D learning environment which lets pupils take on personas in different scenarios.
Wireless access to the Internet and tablet personal computers for pupils are also on the cards next year.
While other schools have computer labs and libraries, it has a 'media hub' the size of nine classrooms.
Here, pupils can visit the brick- and-mortar library or log on to online information sources.
They can also record performances in a studio and retreat into rooms called 'pods' to view their work.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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