RADIO IN THE SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 31 August 1928, Page 15

RADIO IN THE SCHOOLS

School teachers training in Scotland will in future have a courso of wireless listening includod in their instruction, anfi will learn how to teach with the aid of radio. This official recogntion of the importance of the 8.8.0.'s school broadcasts comes from , the National Committee for the Training of Teachers, which has decided to instal wireless receiving apparatus in tho four principal training centres in Scotland. Visiting engineers of the 8.8.C. will see that the sets attain the highest standards of quality in reception. This is the hrst experiment of its kind. Another tribute to the 8.8.C. 's broadcasts to schools comes from tho United States.- A short time ago the National. Broadcasting . -'Company.. of America applied to tho 8.8.C. for full information concerning theso broadcasts. A scheme has now been suggested which obviously embodies some of the experience gained in Britain in four years of wireless school lessons. If carried through, this will bo the first attempt at nation-wide school s transmissions in the U.S.A. Most of the lessons proposed are similar to^those given hero, but there are some additions, such as talks by "great men," and instruction in public speaking. A first step has been the arrangement of twenty-four educational orchestral concerts to be broadcast next autumn by the "blue" network, under the direction' of Mr. Walter Damrosch. It is expected that from 12,000,000 to 15,000,----000 school children will hear theso concerts. Many people aro troubled by tho question whether dry batteries suffer from not being kept "right way up. The natural assumption is that the terminals aro supposed to bo at tho top, but sometimes the batteries will not fit conveniently into the available space in that altitude, or aro not readily accessible. There need be no hesitation about the matter; dry batteries will work equally well in any position. Those who advocate that they should always be kept with the "top" of the zinc casing uppermost overlook the fact that the outside of a "B" battery, block gives no indication of tho way I the cells ■ are packed inside. In many heavy duty batteries the cells Ho horizontally when the case is placed with the terminals. uppermost. Both "A", and "B" dry batteries may bo ar-1 ranged in any convenient way.