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CASE STUDY
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The goal
The goal is to explore the use of 3D learning technologies in
the education sector. Thus far, the results are very promising.
NEC Display Solutions Europe, provider of modern 2D and
3D projection technologies, is one of the project partners. The
company has gathered some interesting findings about the
teachers and pupils who are using the system.
The challenge
The Laurentius group, head of the three participating schools,
De Bonte Pael, De Piramide and De Wilgenhoek intend to give
their pupils a modern and pedagogically up-to-date learning
experience. As part of the pan-European LIFE project, which
aims to investigate academic learning supported by 2D and
3D technologies, they were equipped with the equivalent
technologies. Texas Instruments, DLP technology innovator,
supports the project with technical know-how and the latest
hardware. The project is being coordinated by Professor Anne
Bamford, an internationally renowned British education expert,
who is in charge of delivering the project and evaluating its
results.
Modern 3D content, tailored for the needs of young students,
offers endless possibilities. Easier than ever before, it is now
possible to gain an insight into complex and difficult topics
from fields like biology, physics and chemistry. As many
children have some 3D experience from movies and video
games, they easily adapt to the new viewing experience.
The results
The three schools have been testing 3D DLP projection in
biology lessons where there are children aged from 8 to 12.
So far, the teachers have given very positive feedback about
the experience:
“I think that the children pay more attention now. They always
seem very focused when I teach something in 3D. In my class
there are a couple of children who suffer from concentration
issues like HDD and HDHD and whenever they put on
their 3D glasses they are totally focused,” says Vera den
Dekker, teacher in De Piramide School. She states the main
achievement is that children are able to remember a greater
amount of information and can talk much more about the
topic after the lesson is finished. “They do ask more questions
and whenever I ask something they know the appropriate
answer in greater detail.”
Sjaak Hoeg, teacher from De Boente Pael school, who has
already given three lessons in 3D on the subject ‘Human
senses’, agrees. “The children said: ‘Now I understand much
better how the heart works’. This is due to the fact that they
can turn around the model and see all the veins and the
chambers of the heart.”
Eric de Jong, teacher in the De Wilgenhoek School, has been
working with 3D technology for about three months now. He
says children do react differently in lessons where 3D is used.
NEC 3D DLP® projectors successfully tested in three Dutch schools. When Sjaak Hoek, teacher
at the “De Bonte Pael” school near Amsterdam, starts his 3D presentation about the heart, the
whole class becomes silent. The boys and girls of the primary education class are fascinated by
the secrets of the human blood system. The lesson forms part of a research project among three
Dutch and a number of international schools.