EDGAR DALE' CONE OF EXPERIENCE

1. EDGAR DALE’S
THE CONE OF
EXPERIENCE

2. OUTLINE
 Direct Purposeful Experiences
 Contrived Experiences
 Dramatized Experiences
 Demonstrations
 Study Trips
 Exhibits
 Educational Television
 Motion Pictures
 Recordings, Radio, Still Pictures
 Visual Symbols
 Verbal Symbols

3. DIRECT PURPOSEFUL EXPERIENCES
 First hand experience that serve as the
foundation of learning
 More are senses use
 Learning by doing

4. CONTRIVED EXPERIENCES
 Edited copies of reality
 Used as substitutes for real things
- Example: Mock up of Apollo
Simulations as playing “sari-sari” store

5. DRAMATIZED EXPERIENCES
 We participate in a reconstructed experience
even though the original event is far removed
from us in time
- Example: Life of Jose Rizal

6. DEMONSTRATIONS
 A visualized explanation of an important fact,
idea, or process
 It is showing how things are done

7. STUDY TRIPS
 Observe an event that is unavailable inside the
classroom
 These are excursions, educational trips or field
trips

8. EXHIBITS
 Displays to be seen by spectators
 Sometimes exhibits are “for your eyes only”

9. EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION AND
MOTION PICTURES
 Reconstruct reality of the past so effectively

10. RECORDINGS, RADIO, STILL
PICTURES
 These are visual and auditory devices may be
used by individual or group
 Still pictures lack the sound and motion of a
sound
 Radio broadcast of an actual event

11. VISUAL SYMBOLS
 No longer realistic reproduction of physical
things for these are highly abstract
representations
-Examples: Charts, graphs, maps and diagrams

12. VERBAL SYMBOLS
 These are not like object or ideas for which they
stand
 They usually do not contain a visual clues to
their meaning
- Example: written words, scientific principle and formula

13. CONE OF EXPERIENCE REMINDS US:
 Do not use one medium in isolation
 Do not get stuck with the concrete
 Learning is from the concrete to abstract

14. MAKING CONNECTION
 How does the dictum in philosophy “there is
nothing in mind that was not first in some way
through the senses” relate what you learned from
the cone of experience?