Lesson 5 : The Cone of Experience

In this lesson, the Cone of Experience is tackled. This is a visual model, pictorial device that presents bands of experience arranged according to degree of abstraction and not degree of difficulty. Let me enumerate the bands of experience in Dal's Cone of Experience. These bounds from the bottom to the top. Direct Purposeful Experiences, Contrived Experiences, Dramatized Experiences, Demonstrations, Study Trips, Exhibits, Educational Television, Motion Pictures, Recordings Radio Still Pictures, Visual Symbols, Verbal Symbols. I learned from these experiences that we do not use only one medium of communication, we may use many instructional materials to help the students conceptualize learning. When teaching, we don't have to stuck on one medium, we should have several. Let our student be in the top of learning, strive to bring them to the symbolic or abstract level to develop their HOTS or higher order thinking skills.