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Visual Instruction in the Public Schools of Evanston, 111.
AT its regular meeting in June, 1919, the Board of Education of District 75 authorized the organization of a bureau of visual instruction in its school curriculum. In taking this action, the Board had two purposes in mind — first, to establish more definitely the use of motion pictures in the system, and, secondly, to obtain a closer and more immediate correlation between the films and the subject matter in the school courses. The words "more definitely" are used advisedly, for the Evanston schools have made use of regular educational motion picture programs since November, 1918.
The introduction of the educational type of film into our schools was a matter of evolution, based upon seven years of experimentation in various school systems on the part of the director of the Evanston bureau, and guided by the observation of the efforts of our best educators and of many progressive school administrators in all parts of our country, to evolve a method which would adapt the cinema to the school needs.
In this connection, many empirical attempts, often abortive, can be cited, but they serve to demonstrate that consciousness everywhere is awakening to the educative possibilities of motion pictures. One needs only to review the educational publications of this and other countries to judge of the progress that is being made in this field and to note the direction in which this progress is tending.
As outstanding guideposts of the movement, reference should be made to
(a) Eecent decisions of Boards of Education in such important school centers as Newark and Detroit, to establish departments of visual instruction. To-wit :
In a recent magazine article, Mr. A. G. number of projection machines. We have
Balcom, Superintendent of the Newark contracted for films covering quite a
schools says, "Newark, N. J., is one of field> including travel, literature, history
the first of the larger cities of the United and a great many industrial films. The
States seriously and officially, through its FoM MotQr Company is stm at work
board of education, to adopt motion pic . ,. „ _. . .
M ,x , , upon production of films for us under tures as an integral part of its school
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system. Visual education, so far as *
Newark is concerned, is an accepted fact. ™Vh?> but so far no films have been The school board has authorized its su released. We are using motion pictures perintendent, through his assistants in fourteen schools, organized on the assigned for the purpose, to equip the platoon plan, our form of organization schools of the city with fireproof booths being that one day each week is given and standard professional apparatus, and over entirely to film work in the audiit has authorized appropriations for edu torium of the school. Machines are cational film service." being operated by the teachers themLikewise, Mr. Charles L. Spain, Deputy selves and the film service is being cared Superintendent of the Detroit schools, for by the supervisor of this work. It says: "In Detroit we are just getting is expected that this work will be exstarted on motion picture work in our tended next year to include probably public schools and have purchased a fifteen or twenty more schools."
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