Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

holding a microphone in his hand and piaking an announcement. For this the dollar investment was anywhere from two to ten thousand dollars— and rot one scltool in a hundred even tolay makes adequate instruetional use f tliese mechanical monsters to justify heir existence! Central sound systems? Child's lay! The new status symbol is the anguage laboratory— "you can't have school without a language lab— you an't tell the students without a propram." And yet today, after this first reat splurge the trend is away from ver-reliance on machine instruction. It is only appropriate that the techician, the mechanically-minded perDnnel, have first information about ewer technological developments. It equally true, and regrettable, that lese same individuals find themselves s alleged (although temporary) eduitional leaders as these media of comlunication are tested in the crucible the classroom. And it is a credit fundamental educators that they e not swung by grandiose 'pie in the ;y' arguments but retain the relativeeven tenor of their ways, and eduition progresses despite, but not scause, the technical advances are mporary kings and then become 'ery-day contributors. There is still no invention or dis)very which has done as much for lucation or meant as much in terms educational evolution and revolum as Gutenberg's development of ovable type. In recent decades the motion picre was going to revolutionize edution— but resijonsible motion picture oducers today recognize that they er a tool for the teacher to useid that the teacher is queen. Not too many years ago the broadst— the audio broadcast— was going revolutionize education. All chilen, all over, were to hear the same ing at the same time— and learnl It today responsible broadcasters :k to implement instruction by supKing material normally beyond the ch of the teacher. Television was different. It offered ht and sound and there would be lool classes of a million or more, was to be applied regionally, perps even nationally, and solve the icher .shortage, materials lag and y number of other education ills. it today responsible telecasters are covering the obvious: that teleion can make limited contributions instruction in classrooms where Chilean respond to the teacher, for teacher is queen. guage laboratories were next. f., 1 '«■ Dr. Irene Cypher, Ansociate Professor of Education at New York University, past-President of the METROPOLITAN AUDIO VISUAL ASSOCIATION, and A-V Editor of Instructor Magazine, demonstrates the unique advantages of the Norelco 'Continental' Tape Recorder to a group of student teachers at N.Y.U. Selection of the NORELCO for inclusion in the exhibits in N.Y.U.'s "Model Classroom" was based upon performance standards of fidelity, reliability, versatility and functional simplicity. Now. . . 2 HBVi/Vore/c6 Recorders . . . CONTINENTAL '300' ' 4-Trat:k Stereo Playbock, Monophonic Record-Playback • Comes complete with preampamplifier, wide-range Norelco speaker and dynamic microphone • 3 speeds • Headphone facilities for 'auditioning' student as he records • Rugged construction for constant classroom use • Mixing and sound-on-sound facilities • Accidental erasure prevention. CONTINENTAL '400' 4-Track Stereo Record-Playback, Monophonic Record-Playback • Completely self-contained, including dual recording and playback preamplifiers, dual power amplifiers, 2 wide-range Norelco speakers and stereo dynamic microphone • 3 speeds • Mixing, monitoring and sound-on-sound facilities. Write for illustrated and detailed brochure. Mrs. Mary Lou Plugge, Chainnan of the Department of Speech and Dramatic Arts at Adelphi College in New York, finds her Norelco 'Continental' tape recorder an essential tool in speech instruction. Says MRS. Plugge, "My NORELCO tape recorder is valuable to me for a nu7nber of reasons. There is an impressive tone quality in its reproduction of sound. Concomitant with this is the aid of the mechanical pause button which allows me to stop to analyze progress without turning off the machine." The Norelco 'Continental' is a product of North American Philips Co., Inc., High Fidelity Products Division, Dept. 1S5, 2S0 Duffy Avenue, Hicksville, Long Island, New York. wcATioNAL Screen and Audiovisual Guide — Mat, 1961 245