See and hear : the journal on audio-visual learning (1945)

EDITORIAL: Cont'd from Page 4 its editorials, its bibliographies and its announcements at the considera- tion of the great new tools for learn- ing: audio-visual materials of in- struction and equipment. Through them formal education has leaped forward beyond the bounds of pre- vious imagination. Through the new tools of instruc- tion, it has been possible to approach more closely the basic responsibility of education; namely, to accomplish a correct ujiderstanding of our nat- ural and man-made environment to a degree where, through retention of correctly comprehended informa- tion, the young learner, as he pro- gresses through his formal educa- tional sequence will find himself ultimately at a place where he can more effectively take his .role as an adult in the constantly changing stream of affairs that characterizes life today. Our theme has been the selection and utilization of the audio-visual tools for learning. That we have done this is evidenced by unsolicited letters which we have interestingly classified into the following cate- gories: 1. "We value the consistent em- phasis placed upon the 'how-to-do- it' of classroom teaching techniques which involve the selection and utilization of radio, the sound 16 nun film, the filmstrip, the record- ing,, the transcription, the model, the chart, the bulletin board, the map, the globe and other materials of audio-visual education so neces- sary in today's greatly increased edu- cational responsibility for training oiu" yoimg people to know the great- ly increased educational responsi- bility for training our young people to know the greatly enlarged world environment which has become the responsibility of the schools to teach." 2. This from administrators and supervisors: "See and Hear has, through its many articles on admin- istrative technique, on in-service training, on supervision and on budget analysis, placed invaluable information, statistics and materials into our hands. This information helps us demonstrate the value of audio-visual techniques, materials and equipment to a community group receptive today as never before to an increasingly efficient program of public education." 3. "Less than five years ago it was possible for even the casually inter- ested teacher, supervisor, admini- strator, or director of audio-visual education to keep abreast of the few new materials of instruction which were sporadically produced. Such is no longer the case! Dozens of new producers and new plans for distri- bution, hundreds of newly produced titles of materials in sound film and filmstrip, recordings and transcrip- tions make it absolutely necessary for a methodical review to be given of these materials to every teacher or administrator interested in the audio-visual education and mate- rials field. Through bibliographies, through announcement of new ma- terials, and very important, through a program of ivell-planned, intelli- gently planned, and selectively in- cluded advertising, the products of high caliber producers have been effectively displayed and explained to us (educators.) " The emphasis which See and Hear has given to audio-visual teach- ing techniques, its tools, its equip- ment and its materials, has been from the standpoint that the new tools for learning are no fad, no frill, but an established, proved, worth-while, scientific and new pro- cedure for classroom instruction. To this end it becomes the edi- torial policy of See and Hear to deal with a fascinating and extreme- ly effective subject—audio-visual ed- ucation. For the more than 10,000 regidar readers of this magazine, we will keep this faith! • THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD OF SEE & HEAR MAGAZINE Roger Albright, Motion Picture Association Lester Anderson, University of Minnesota V. C. Arnsimger, Encyclofmedia Britannica Films, Inc. Lester F. Beck, University of Oregon Esther Berg, New York City Public Schools Camilla Best, New Orleans Public Schools Charles M. Boesel, Milwaukee Country Day Scliool Joseph K. Boltz, Citizenship Education Study, Detroit Flovde E. Brooker, U.S. Office of Education James W. Brown, Virginia State Dept. of Education Robert H. Burgert, San Diego City Schools Miss J. Margaret Carter, National Film Board Lee W. Cochran. University of Iowa SiEi'HEN M. Corey, University of Chicago ('. R. Crakes. Educational Consultant, DeVry Corp. .■\mo DeBernardis, Portland Public Schools JosEi'ii E. DiCKMAN. Enc\clof>ardia Britannica Films Dean E. Douglass, F.ducniional Dept., RCA Henry Durr, Virginia State Del>artment of Education C;i,en G. Eve, University of Wiscimsin Leslie Frve, Cleveland Public Schools I.OWEIX P. Goodrich, Supl., Milwaukee Schools William M. Gregory, Western Reserve University JOHN L. Hamilton, Film Officer, British Information Service RiiiH A. Hamilton, Omaha Public Schools (). A. Hankammer, Kansas State Teachers College W. H. Hartley, Towson State Teachers College, Maryland |oiiN R, Hedgf.s, University of lown \ iRGii. E. Hfrrick, University of Chicago Henry H. Hill, President, George Peabody College Charles Hoff, University of Omaha U. F. Holland, University of Texas Walter E. Johnson, Society for Visual Education, Inc. Wanda Wheeler Johnston, Knoxville Public Schools Herold L. Kooser, Iowa State College Abraham Krasker, Boston University L. C. Larson, Indiana University Gordon N. Mackenzie, Teachers College, Columbia Univ. Harold B. McCarty, Director WHA, University of Wisconsin Bert McClelland, Victor Animatograph Corporation Charles P. McInnis, Columbia (S.C.) Public Schools Edgar L. Morphet, Florida State Dept. of Education Ervine N. Nelsen, The Ampro Corporation Elizabeth Goudy Noel, Radio Consultant, California Francis Noel, California State Department of Education Herbert Olander, University of Pittsburgh Boyd B. Rakf.straw, University of California, Berkeley C. R. Reagan, Film Council of America Don C. Rogers, Chicago Public Schools W. E. Rosenstengel, University of North Carolina W. T. Rowland, Lexington, Kentucky, Public Schools Oscar E. Sams, Jr., Interim Office, U.S. Dept. of State E. E. Sechriest, Birmingham Public Schools Harold Spears, Neiu Jersey State Teachers College Arthur Stenius, Detroit Public Schools Ernest Tiemann, Pueblo Junior College Ori.in D. Trapp, Waukegan Public Schools KiNGSLEY Trenholme, Portland (Oregon) Schools Lelia Trolinger, University of Colorado Paul Wendt, University of Minnesota SEE AND HEAR