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

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News people organizations events Two State Groups Hold First Joint AV Meeting A capacity crowd met at McLoughlin Junior High School in Vancouver, Washington, on October 14-15 for the first joint meeting of two state audiovisual organizations, the Washington Department of AudioVisual Instruction and the Oregon Audio-Visual Association. The theme for the conference was "Automation and the Curriculum." A report on team teaching as seen across the nabon was given by two Oregonians who have been investigating the possibilities of using this technique in Oregon schools. A threeman panel also discussed educational TV—its hmitations and its potentials. The automation theme continued on Saturday with a section on teaching machines presented by William Deutsch of Califone Company. Language laboratories were discussed by a professor and two teachers who have been actively using them. A rundown on research now underway, and possibilities for future research project grai.ts under Title Vll of the NDEA, was given by the United States Office of Education. At the closing luncheon, a Navy representative demonstrated audSovisuaUy how the Navy uses AV materials in its teaching program. DA VI president James Finn gave the banquet address. CCTV Can Help Fill In For Teacher Lack, Study Shows Closed-circuit television and tape recordings may constitute an acceptable "stop-gap" to meet ever-increasing demands for trained foreign language teachers, particularly at the elementary school level, a progress report from the University of Illinois Foreign Language Instruction Project indicates. Objective of the project, sponsored jointly by the University and the U. S. Office of Education, is to find a satisfactory way to put study of foreign languages into the elementary schools while qualified teachers— not presently available— are being prepared to take over this instruction. The experiment involved two groups of fourth grade children, one "guided" by teachers unfamiliar with Spanish in lessons conducted by tape-recording and television, the other taught conventionally by foreign language spe cialists. At the end of a year, tests show the experimental group doing nearly as well as the contrast group. In tests covering comprehension, pronunciation, immediacy of response, appropriateness of response and composite skills, the "guided" group achieved a composite score equal to 92 per cent of that scored by the children who received conventional instruction. DA VI Planning Side Trips For Miami Convention For members attending the convention of the Department of AudioVisual Instruction (NEA) in Miami next April, a variety of study trips and sightseeing tours have been arranged: The Everglades National Park and a Miami Beach, scene of 1961 DAVI Convention. Seminole Village; the Miami Serpentarium, where venom for medicinal purposes is extracted; the Monkey Jungle, where the monkeys are loose and the spectators are caged; bird farms teeming with exotic rare birds; orchid jungles, with orchids growing from trees. In Florida, public schools are operated by a county unit system, which provides equal opportunity for boys and girls in any county in the State. Enrollment in Dade County, the Greater Miami area, now exceeds 165,000 in 176 schools. From 10 to 15 new schools are required each year to keep pace with the jwpulatio growth. More than 1,000 new teachei are added each year coming froi every state in the Union and man foreign countries. At least one-thir of the teachers have five or moi years of education and all have fouj year degrees. A $70,000,000 amiual budget is n quired for this, the eighth large! school system in the nation. An audit visual center serves the schools, an an extensive educational television sy: tem with hourly telecasts provides variety of programs for pupils in ever school. Long Island AV Council Publishes Anniversary Issue The Long Island Audio VisuE Council has issued a special 25th an niversary edition of its pubhcatio AVISO. For this issue, top audiovisui people around the country were que ried for their opinions on past devel opments and their projections on th future of AV in education. Information about this special edi tion can be obtained by writing th Long Island Audio Visual Counci; Box 174. Garden City, L. I., N. Y. Texans Refute Charges Against New ETV Outlet "An inexcusable disservice to a fin cooperative endeavor," was the bran applied by W. W. Jackson of Sa Antonio, chairman of the Southwe; Texas Educational Television Counci to a story about San Antonio's pn jected educational television static appearing in the November 14 issi of Time magazine. "The story is full of factual ina^ curacies which are misleading am even worse, it attributes a complete erroneous purpose for the station activation," said Dr. Jackson. I denied the story's statement that tl station "will be strictly a platform f great teachers to shame poor ones." ^ such idea has ever been entertained I the board of directors. Dr. Jacks* said. "It is fallacious to imply tb Channel 9 will be used to espouse at one theory of what consHtiites goc teaching. We \vill be offering pri grams designed by teachers themselv to be of assistance in conducting thu own courses." The Time story also says that "ti' (Continued on page 8) Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — January, 19<