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Will flesh-and-blood teachers eventually be replaced by audio-visual gadgets? At the convention in Cincinnati last week of the National Education Association's Department of Audio-Visual Education some 2,000 people ohed and ahed over electronic marvels designed for the classroom. Proclaimed outgoing DAVI President Walter S. Bell, director of audio-visual education in Atlanta: "The familiar concept of a teacher in a classroom with only some books has completely broken down. The 'old methods simply cannot meet the challenge of the next decade, if education is to serve the humanities...
Preparation for the Newton Plan lectures was exhaustive. The lecturers undertook a maximum of research and planning and prepared their various audio-visual aids themselves, finding that commercial slides and other aids were in most cases not exactly suited to their needs. Each lecture was then given a dry run before colleagues and revised on the basis of their suggestions...
...building used to house administrative offices for the modern and ancient language departments and a few classrooms. Now, with five classrooms, seven seminar rooms, an auditorium, and two audio-visual labs, it also provides 108 office rooms. The new offices will be used by the departments of ancient and modern languages, Classics, and History and Literature. The Romance and German departmental libraries will also be moved to Boylston...
Zacharias will devote particular attention to the use of films and other audio-visual aids in group instruction. The use of such devices in the teaching of a mathematical science is "quite new and revolutionary," according to Edwin H. Sauer, lecturer on Education...
Films and other audio-visual aids are an improvement in teaching technique and a potential answer to the current shortage of teachers, Sauer commented...