Stephen Fry lends his voice to a new Edtech app series where young learners play with history’s greatest minds.
‘Einstein on Time’ is the first in a children’s educational app series – “Human Heroes” - centred on history’s greatest minds. From the philosophers of ancient Greece, to the giants of science, renowned artists, composers, mathematicians, authors and architects – these inspirational characters are brought back to life in a futuristic theatrical setting to perform a captivating live-show experience covering their life and their famous discoveries.
In addition to the educational value of the subjects covered in each individual app, the series aims to develop a deep-lasting bond between the user and these intellectual champions so that they become life-long role models for children.
Created by edtech startup KalamTech and in collaboration with education experts, the app blends computer generated animations, latest gamification techniques and interactive storytelling to bring a fresh kind of learning experience to the next generation.
Albert Einstein, the 20th century most iconic genius, is presented in this app as a realistic yet quirky digital 3d character. A sock-less, dancing ‘virtual tutor’, he responds to players’ input with contextually relevant information and guide them through the multiple STEM-themed mini games.
Stephen Fry’s luxurious voice-over combined with a sophisticated dynamic speech system brings sentience to the main character. Complimenting the high-quality game cinematics is the app’s bespoke music score created by sound designer and composer Marc Sylvan.
With this app you will:
- Four apps in one: Four different stages that focus on different learning areas.
- A realistic live-show experience: High quality visuals and sophisticated dynamic speech system complimenting the luxurious voice performance by Stephen Fry.
- Master reading the clock: Covering a Key-Stage National Curriculum area, the first stage is broken into 17 different levels where players will learn to tell the time in different configuration: O'Clock, quarter and half, past and to, AM and PM, 24 hours format, and even clocks with Roman numerals!
- Scaffolding teaching techniques used throughout. Your children are sure to succeed as Einstein steps in with on-screen visual and verbal help when they struggle.
- Regular jokes and trivia at different times of the day.
- Your children can become a time traveller by moving the clock hands backward or forward and witnessing the effects of time on the succession of day and night.
- ‘Hear’ the effects of time passing: With our time machine, your kids can speed time up or down and listen to how it affects sound waves.
- Meet Einstein’s violin friend: Lina and control his playing.
- Learn about different types of clocks.
- Learn about rhythms and pendulums: get the timing right or risk pushing poor Albert off the pendulum!
- Can your children accurately wait for 10 seconds? Learn to be patient and how to count in seconds and fill the stage with coloured balloons.
- Become a relativity expert.
- Learn all about the famous twin paradox in an unprecedented simplification and gamification approach.
- Control a broken lift and discover the relationship between gravity and time!
- Become an astronaut and control a space rocket while exploring the relationship between speed and time!
- Break the laws of physics and turn a rocket ship into a blackhole!
- Get familiar with Einstein fascinating life story, his hobbies, discoveries and what inspired him to create the theory of relativity that have revolutionized modern physics.
- Audience Q&A: With tens of different questions you can throw at Einstein you will learn about the philosophy and science of time and finally understand why Einstein hair is so messy and why he never wore socks!
- And many more!
All facts and figures have been rigorously checked and researched by subject matter experts to ensure scientific, historical and biographical accuracy.
Commenting on the inspiration for the app, Human Heroes founder, Ranim Nahhas, says:
“I consider myself privileged to have been exposed to the arts and science early in my life and I regard the Human Heroes series as my contribution to the generation coming after me. I truly believe education is the grand solution for most of humanity’s problems. And as Einstein himself once said: “The value of an education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
Human Heroes co-founder, Zaher Zeidan, comments:
“When I was a child, my father used to read to me from a 'series of greats' which introduced me at an early age to history's most celebrated thinkers and artists. Since then I've been an avid reader of biographies and they have had a huge influence on me.
I believe that national curriculums around the world do not sufficiently cover the people who produced the knowledge they teach in schools. They put students in a corridor and ask them to compete to get to the ‘end’ instead of instilling a sense of passion for knowledge itself and giving them the opportunity to get inside the minds of humanity’s greatest heroes, I dream of changing that.”
Watch the promo vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ajRa1SVUg
Notes to Editor:
Human Heroes 1: Einstein on Time Released on the 7th December 2018.
Priced £3.99 and available on both IOS and Android devices.
No ads
No in-app purchases
No subscription or sign up required
No internet or wifi connectivity required works completely offline
Forthcoming Human Heroes apps due for release: Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Mozart, Lada Lovelace, Aristotle, Jane Austin.
For further information please contact: Ranim Nahhas r.nahhas@kalam.tech +44 (0)770 361 6603