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BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

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ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN<br />

Children and parents prepare site map<br />

likely to be somewhat freer than adults in expressing complex ideas in<br />

three dimensions using a variety of means from drawing to photography and<br />

videocameras. Videocameras have been used by children for mapping and<br />

environmental design with considerable success in England. Programs at<br />

the Elliot School, Putney, London, showed that the video literacy of 14<br />

year-old children was richer and more imaginative than that of the professional<br />

adult television producer who worked on the same program. Simon<br />

Nicholson, in his article Children as Planners, tells us that "provided<br />

the camera is attached to a swivel and support (such as a supermarket<br />

trolley) anyone from about 2-J years old can generate television images<br />

for transmission", and he adds that "unlike written language, and in common<br />

with most visual communications, there is little vocabulary to learn to<br />

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