{"id":19903,"date":"2021-02-11T03:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T07:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=19903"},"modified":"2021-02-11T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:14:00","slug":"readin-writing-and-rithmetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/readin-writing-and-rithmetic\/","title":{"rendered":"readin, writing and &#8216;rithmetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19904\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Photography-joins-the-US-war-effort-1943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19904\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19904\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Photography-joins-the-US-war-effort-1943-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">using movies and filmstrips to teach over a half century ago<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong> \u00a0I can remember filmstrips and educational 16mm movies when I was kid. The filmstrips were shown with a tiny SVC projector and rather than a recording, a teacher spoke about each frame&#8217;s meaning. How did I know? I ran the machines for my grade school teachers until a new principal put an end to my budding career when I entered grade 8.<\/p>\n<p>Today, film has disappeared into history for the most part. It seems computers have replaced movies and filmstrips as aids to teachers. In fact, with the current COVID-19 situation, many students whether grade school or higher go partly or fully on-line for their lessons.<\/p>\n<p>In the July 1943 issue of <em>Electronics<\/em> magazine, Lyne Metcalfe did a brief article on how the American military used these tools to show or supplement new teaching techniques for engineers pressed into teaching duties. Have a read.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my good friend, George Dunbar, for sharing this tidbit of photographic history with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto \u00a0I can remember filmstrips and educational 16mm movies when I was kid. The filmstrips were shown with a tiny SVC projector and rather than a recording, a teacher spoke about each frame&#8217;s meaning. How did I know? I ran &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/readin-writing-and-rithmetic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[137,3453,14,3525,93],"class_list":["post-19903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-education","tag-electronics","tag-film","tag-filmstrips","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19909,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903\/revisions\/19909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}