According to Edgar Dale, "The cone is a visual analogy and like all analogies, if does not bear an exact and detailed relationship to the complex elements it represent".So, a cone of experience is a visual model, a pictorial device that presents bands of experience arranged according to degree of abstraction and not degree of difficulty. According also to Edgar Dale that it is an effective tool to be use in classroom instruction more captivating and learning experiences more meaningful. Since students or pupils are visual learners then this cone will likewise be helpful and instrument to achieve school goals and objectives. Starting from the base we have direct purposeful experiences up to the pinnacle which is verbal symbols. It doesn't mean in the cone of experience that all teaching and learning must move systematically from base to pinnacle, from direct purposeful experiences to verbal symbol but we should continually shuttle back and forth among various kinds of experiences.
In our teaching, we should not always gebin with direct experience at the base of the cone. Rather, we gin with the kind of experience that is most appropriate to the needs and abilities of particular learning situation.
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