The document discusses Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience, a model that arranges various types of educational experiences from most abstract to most concrete. At the top of the cone are verbal symbols like written words, followed by visual symbols, still images, audio recordings, video and film, exhibits, field trips, demonstrations, dramatizations, simulated experiences, and direct experiences. The cone shows that learners retain information best through more hands-on, concrete experiences rather than abstract representations alone.

1. “The cone visual analogy, and like all analogies, it does not bear an
exact and detailed relationship to the complex elements it represent”
-Edgar Dale
Merry Joyce Jose
FILIPINO III

2. CONE OF EXPERIENCE
Is a visual model, a pictorial
device that present bands of
experience arranged
according to degree of
abstraction and not degree of
difficulty

3. VERVAL SYMBOLS
They are not like the objects or
ideas for which they stand.
They usually do not contain
visual clues to their meaning.
Written words fall under this
category.

5. VISUAL SYMBOLS
these are no longer realistic
reproduction of physical things
for these are hihgly abstract
representation.

7. STILL PICTURE,
RECORDINGS, RADIO
these are visual and auditory
devices which may be used by
an individual or a group.

9. TELEVISION AND MOTION
PICTURE
television and motion picture
can reconstruct the reality of the
past so effectively that we are
made to feel we are there.

11. EXHIBITS
exhibit of artifacts, tools
costumes and other material
aspects of the culture is a
good type of education media.

13. STUDY TRIPS
Conducting a field trip to
local community is a tool
towards experiential
learning.

15. DEMONSTRATION
demonstration by an authority
or a resource person about
certain activities or rituals of
the group is a form of actual
learning.

17. DRAMATIZED EXPERIENCE
dramatization by some
members of the class who
may have done some
research about the cultural
group is a result of

19. CONTRIVED EXPERIENCE
simulating certain activities
or physical aspect of the
local culture so that the
experience become more
real is a valuable way to

21. DIRECT, PURPOSE EXPERIENCE
directly involving the class in
certain activities of the group
such as planting, harvesting,
praying and the like is both
experiential and

23. MERRY JOYCE JOSE
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
FILIPINO III