Lesson 5: The Cone of Experience

Summary:


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.


Insights:

The Cone of experience shows the different experiences that can be used in order for the child to learn. The biggest portion is the direct purposeful experiences going up to the verbal symbols.This is arrange according to abstraction and not according to difficulty.

Application:

The cone of experience could be used by teachers in teaching the student. If you could remember one step in the process of systematic approach to teaching is the choosing of appropriate materials and that could give the students learning at its best.In choosing, the teacher should take in consideration the method to be used wherein the materials would be based.