Educational Technology I Requirement

2. The Cone of Experience
• Visual model, pictorial device
• Bands of experiences
• Arranged according to degree of abstraction
• Not arranged in degree of difficulty
• Concrete to abstract (from base to pinnacle)
• Originally developed by Edgar Dale

3. Direct Purposeful Experiences
• First hand experiences
• Foundation of learning
• Most concrete experience
• Build up ideas using the 5 senses
• Learning by doing

4. Contrived Experiences
• Substitute for direct
experiences (edited version)
• Simulation
• Use of models and mock-
ups

5. Dramatized Experiences
• Reconstructed experience
• Formal plays
• Pageants
• Pantomime
• Puppet
• Tableau

6. Demonstrations
• Showing how things are
done
• Visualized explanation of
facts, ideas, and processes
• Films, photographs,
drawings, guided motions
and displays are used

7. Study Trips
• Excursions
• Educational trips
• Visits that are unavailable
inside the classroom

8. Exhibits
• “For your eyes only”
• Some include sensory
experiences
• May consist of working
models or photographs with
models, charts and posters

9. Television and Motion Pictures
• Can reconstruct reality of
the past effectively
• Unique value of their
messages lies in the ability
to select, clarify, etc.

10. Still Pictures, Recordings, Radio
• Visual and auditory devices• May be used by individual
or group

11. Visual Symbols
• Highly abstract
representations
• Charts, graphs, maps,
drawings, etc.

12. Verbal Symbols
• Not like the objects or ideas
for which they stand
• Do not contain visual clues
• Written words
• Ideas, principles, formulas
• Most abstract experience

13. Answer the ff:
• Who developed the Cone of
Experience?
Answer: Edgar Dale
• From the base of the cone,
it is arranged from _ to _.
Answer: Concrete to
abstract.
TRUE OR FALSE
• The cone is arranged
according to their degree of
difficulty.
Answer: FALSE. According to
degree of abstraction.
• Verbal symbols is the most
concrete of all the bands of
experience.
Answer: FALSE. Verbal
symbols – most abstract.
Direct Purposeful – most
concrete