by BRYAN P. DELA CRUZ 2BEED-1A ARAULLO UNIVERSITY

1. THE CONE OF EXPERIENCE

2. TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
 Direct Purposeful Experiences
 Contrived Experiences
 Dramatized Experiences
 Demonstrations
 Study Trips
 Exhibits
 Educational Television and Motion Pictures
 Recordings, Radio and Still pictures
 Visual Symbols
 Verbal Symbols

3. THE CONE OF EXPERIENCE
 By Edgar Dale
 Is a visual model, a pictorial device that presents
band of experience arranged to degree of
abstraction and not degree of difficulty.
 The farther you go of the bottom of the cone, the
more abstract the experience becomes.

4. DIRECT PURPOSEFUL EXPERIENCES
 First hand experiences
 Lead us to concept formation and abstraction.
 “Learning by Doing”

5. CONTRIVED EXPERIENCES
 Edited copies of reality.
 Designed to simulate real-life situation.
 Use of mock up, models, specimen, simulation
and games.

6. STUDY TRIPS/FIELD TRIPS
 These are excursions, educational trips, and
visits conducted to observe an event that is
unavailable within the classroom.
 “Can nurture curiosity; build a zest for new
experience and a sense of wonder.”

7. DRAMATIZED EXPERIENCES
 All dramatization is essentially a process of
communication, in which both participant and
spectator are engaged.
 Use of formal plays, pageants, tableau,
pantomime, puppets and role-playing.

8. DEMONSTRATIONS
 “Good Demonstration is good communication.”
 Showing on how a thing is done.
 Keep your demonstration “simple.”

9. EXHIBITS
 Displays to be seen by spectator.
 Sometimes exhibits are “For your eyes only.”
 Sometimes it include sensory experience where
are allowed to touch or manipulate models
displayed.

10. TELEVISION AND MOTION PICTURES
 Reconstruct reality of the past.
 Bring the world of reality to the home and to the
classroom.
 Great equalizer of educational opportunity.

11. STILL PICTURES, RECORDINGS, RADIO
 Are visual and auditory devices.
 Still pictures lack the sound and motion of a
sound film.
 Radio broadcast of an actual event may often be
likened to a televised broadcast minus its visual
dimension.

12. VISUAL SYMBOLS
 These are no longer realistic reproduction of
physical things.
 Use of drawings, cartoons, strip drawings,
diagrams, charts, graphs and maps.

13. VERBAL SYMBOLS
 They are not like the objects or ideas for which
they stand.
 They usually do not contain visual clues to their
meaning.
 Use of written words, concrete object, idea,
scientific principle and formula.