LESSON 5: CONE OF EXPERIENCE

     

         LESSON 5: 

                                                               CONE OF EXPERIENCE


The Cone shows the progression of experiences from the most concrete (at the bottom of the cone) to the most abstract (at the top of the cone). 

It is believed that any and all of the approaches could and should be used, depending on the needs of the learner. It shows what students will be able to do at each level of the Cone (the learning outcomes they will be able to achieve) relative to the type of activity they are doing (reading, hearing, viewing images, etc.).

It is important to remember that this does not mean reading and listening are not valuable learning experiences, simply that “doing the real thing” can lead to the retention of the largest amount of information. This is in part because those experiences near the bottom of the Cone, closer to and including real-world experiences, make use of more of our senses; it is believed that the more senses that are used, the greater our ability to learn from and remember an event or experience.