VISUAL AIDS IN SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 9

VISUAL AIDS IN SCHOOLS

During the war all branches of the Armed Forces recognised the usefulness of the film projector in training men and women for their tasks. The importance of an appeal to the visual sense has long been recognised, too, by the educationists. It is not surprising, therefore, that the school committee, Home and School Association, and teaching staff of the Karori West School in their present campaign for funds to provide amenities for their school should state that their first objective is the purchase of a soundfilm projector. Three main types of projectors are being used at present throughout New Zealand, namely, the film strip, the silent film, and the sound film. The only one in common use is the film strip which, because of its comparative cheapness and the fact that the Education Department has produced, a comprehensive library of educational film strips, is considered as essential by many teachers as a knife is to a schoolboy. Silent film and sound film projectors are not as yet widely used throughout New Zealand schools, but they are certain to be in the future. In the U.S.A. and England excellent libraries of educational films, both silent and sound, have been I built up and these are being extended. If New Zealand wishes to make the best use of these visual aids, libraries of educational films suited to our needs will have to be compiled.