Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Date:
1929
Publisher:
New York : Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Volume:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1929)
Leaf #:
000103
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Cinematography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Technical Journals
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Preceeded by an unnumbered issue published in 1916 called: Incorporation and by-laws
Date Added:
November 17, 2022
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Report of the Progress Committee 93 APPENDIX Progress in the Educational Field During the Past Year Rowland Rogers 7. Introduction To secure a comprehensive view of recent progress in the use of pictures in the educational field, some background is essential. There are about 25,000,000 children of school age in the United States. Twenty million or about 80% attend school for an average of about 140 days each year for about 7 years. About 90% of our American children leave school at the end of the seventh grade. We are a nation of seventh graders. Some Problems. In light of these facts what are a few of the problems ? 1. Students lack of ability to comprehend the instruction given. Slowness or inability of students to grasp the teacher's meaning. 2. Teacher's lack of ability. Inability of teachers to get over their meaning and make their subject interesting. 3. Lack of teachers. Inadequately trained teacher personnel. 4. An over-crowded curriculum. A curriculum which is crowded with too many subjects, resulting in lack of time for teacher and pupil to cover the subject adequately. 5. Over-crowded classes. Too many students in a class. II. The Value of Visual Instruction 1. Student 's lack of ability to grasp. The subject is ' ' over their heads." Frequently students lack a background of knowledge. Say the subject of study is in economic geography, and for example nut margarine: Here information about cocoanuts is needed. The child may know little about the tropics. The picture may show a cocoanut tree growing in the tropics ; a man native climbing the tree, the cocoanuts being gathered ; shipped in rafts, opened , and