- Edgar Dale was an American educationalist born in 1900 who developed the Cone of Experience.
- The Cone of Experience is a model that arranges media along a continuum from most concrete to most abstract based on how directly they involve learners in experience.
- It ranges from direct experiences like demonstrations down to symbolic experiences like written or spoken words, to help explain how students learn from different types of media.
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2. Born April17,1900 Benson,
Minnesota, USA
Cited as the Father of Modern
Audiovisual Education
An American Educationalist who
developed the Cone of Experience
Professor of Education at Ohio
State University
3. First introduced in 1946 in Dales book,
Audio-Visual Methods in teaching
Designed to show the progression of
learning experiences from the concrete to
the abstract
It is a pictorial device use to explain the
interrelationships of various types of audio-
visual media, as well as their individual
positions in learning process.
5. Enactive direct experiences
Direct purposeful
Contrived
Dramatized
Iconic pictorial experiences
Demonstrations
Exhibits
Educational Television
motion pictures
Recordings, radio, still pictures
Symbolic highly abstract experiences
Visual symbols
Verbal symbols
6. Direct first hand experiences
Have direct participation in the outcome
Use of all senses
Example:
Tutoring younger children.
7. An editing of reality.
Models and mock-ups
Necessary when real experience cannot be
used or are too complicated.
8. Reconstructed experiences
Can be used to simplify an event or idea to its
most important parts
Divided into two categories
1.Acting-actual participation
(more concrete)
2.observing-watching a dramatization
take place (more abstract)
9. Visualized explanation of an important fact,
idea or process
Show how certain things are done
Examples :
how to make a peanut
how to play a piano
10. Watch people do things in real situations
Observe an event that is unavailable in the
classroom
11. Something seen by a spectator
Two types
1. Ready made
eg: museum, career fair etc.
2. Home made
eg: classroom project, national history
day, competition etc.
12. Television Motion pictures
* Bring immediate Interaction * can omit unnecessary or
with events From around the unimportant material
world
* Edit an event to create clearer * used to slow down a fast
understanding than if process
experienced actual event * Viewing, seeing and
first hand experience.
* can re-create events with
Simplistic drama that even
slower students can grasp.
13. Can often be understood by those cannot
read
Helpful to students who cannot deal with the
motion or pace of a real event or television.
Example:
Listening to old radio broadcasts
listening to music in a separate period
14. No longer involves reproducing real situations
Chalkboard and overhead projector the most
widely used media
Help students see an idea, event, or process.
Example:
Chalkboard
Flat maps
Diagrams
Charts
15. Two types
1. Written words more abstract
2. Spoken words less abstract
16. Dale taught teachers should help their
students learn how the media effects us, and
to critically evaluate it
Teachers must evaluate the benefit of the
learning vs. the amount of time required in
the lesson
How to effectively use instructional media to
helping students move from concrete to
abstract thought