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Television in Our Schools. Bulletin, 1952, No. 16

Television presents a new, flexible, and inexpensive means of illustrating a lesson. Television is both audio and visual, to use the term audio-visual, applied in the past particularly to motion pictures, film strips, slides, recordings, and similar valuable aids to teaching. Television is a picture in motion with sound occurring at the same moment being simultaneously brought to the ear. At television's best, things are actually happening when one sees and hears them! A communications medium, television is unique in its ability to bring many other aids into the classroom. Every audio and visual help one has ever known can be "carried" by television--motion pictures, film strips, slides recordings, drawings, maps, and countless other instructional devices. Moreover, it gives schools the opportunity to present fresh, original, creative illustrations produced in the living present. The free element of "choice" is greatly increased when television is available. This bulletin is the first presentation of factors being considered in a survey of educational television by the Office of Education, Federal Security Agency. It is hoped that it will prove helpful in a further discussion of this fast-moving development in American schools. This bulletin is divided into four parts: (1) Television's Role in Education; (2) What Schools and Colleges Can Do with tv; (3) Current Uses of tv by Our Schools; and (4) Looking Ahead--The Expanding Role of tv in Education. [Best copy available has been provided.].

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