The Cone of Experience
Lesson 5
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“The
Cone is a visual analogy, and like all analogies, it does not bear an exact and
detailed relationship to the complex elements it represents.” – Edgar Dale
What
is the Cone of Experience?
The Cone of Experience is a visual model, a
pictoral device that represents bands of experience arranged according to
degree of abstraction and not degree of difficulty. The farther you go from the
bottom of the cone, the more abstract the experience becomes.
What
are the sensory aids in the Cone of Experience?
The Cone of Experience by Edgar Dale is
from abstract to experience which starts form Direct Purposeful Experiences,
followed by Contrived Experiences, Dramatized Experiences, Demonstrations,
Study trips, Exhibits, Educational Televisions, Motion Pictures, Recordings,
Radio, Still Pictures, Visual Symbols and Verbal Symbols.
What
are its implications to teaching?
We do not use only one medium of
communication in isolation rather we use many instructional materials to help
the student conceptualize his experience. We avoid teaching directly at the
symbolic level of thought without adequate foundation of the concrete. When
teaching we should develop the students to use or enhance their higher order
thinking skills.
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