Reflective Writing No.2 Dale's Cone of Experience

Reflective Writing No.2 Dale's Cone of Experience
by Rodeliza Binadbad

   "Education is formation, recapitulation; retrospection and reconstruction. These are all continuous processes of education and only be provided with the help of experience. Different experiences are planned and adopted to educate and train the learners at different levels of education system" based from the article of  Dr. V.K.Maheshwari.

         Edgar Dale (April 27, 1900 – March 8, 1985) was a U.S. educationist who developed the famous Cone of Experience. Dale was a professor of education at University. He made several contributions to audio and visual instruction, including a methodology for analyzing the content of motion pictures Edgar Dale, an expert in audiovisual education, created a model in his 1946 book Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching that he named the Cone of Experience to discuss various modalities/channels of imparting information. The cone of experience given by Edgar dale has rightly said that it is not offered as a perfect or mechanically flaw less picture to be taken with absolute literalness in its simplified form. 

         The Cone of Experience is a pictorial device use to explain the enterrationship of the various types of audio-visual  media, as well as their individual possession in the learning process. While, based from teachernoella.weebly, it's a visual model that composed of 11 stages, starting from concrete experiences at the bottom of the cone then it becomes more and more abstract as it reach the peak of the cone. According from Sang Joon and Thomas C. Reeves, student generally consist of percent 10 of what they read, 20 percent of what they hear, 30 percent of what they see, 50 percent of what they hear and see, 70 percent of what they say, and 90 percent of what they both say and do.

    The implications of Dale’s Cone have been misunderstood or misapplied. For example, Dale’s Cone has been used to maintain that more realistic and direct experience is always better. However, Dale (1969) demurred, writing that, “Too much reliance on concrete experience may actually obstruct the process of meaningful generalization”. Also, Dale noted that providing realistic learning experiences may not be efficient in terms of cost, time, and efforts. Instead, Dale suggested that teachers should balance combinations of concrete and abstract learning experiences.

         Therefore, the Dale's Cone of Experience plays a very significant role for education especially to students because as mentioned above ,which based from Sang Joon and Thomas C. Reeves that the cone consist different percentage. As a student, I believed that demonstration is the best thing achieved in order to reach 90 percent of.

References
http://www.vkmaheshwari.com/WP/?p=2332


https://teachernoella.weebly.com/dales-cone-of-experience.html


https://lidtfoundations.pressbooks.com/chapter/edgar-dale-and-the-cone-of-experience/