Final Educ 8 Direct Purposeful Experiences......

“From the rich experiences that our senses bring,
we construct the ideas, the concepts, the

generalizations that give meaning and order to
our lives.”
– Edgar Dale
(Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

BJECTIVES:
Identify different activities

under direct, purposeful
experiences.
BJECTIVES:
Identify different activities under

direct, purposeful experiences.
Appreciate importance of
hands-on activities.
BJECTIVES:
Identify different activities under

direct, purposeful experiences.
Appreciate importance of hands-on

activities.
Compare the difference between

direct and indirect experiences.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Direct, Purposeful Experiences
These are our concrete and firsthand experiences that make
up the foundation of our learning.
Indirect Experiences
Are experiences of other people that we observe, read or
hear about.
(Corpuz, Lucido 2012 )

Dale’s Cone of Experience
Is a visual model, a pictorial device that presents
bands of experience arranged according to degree of
abstraction and not to degree of difficulty.

“My husband and children
used to do computer job for me which made me
totally dependent on them. The problem was they
were not always around to help me with my
reports, lecture notes, etc. To redeem myself
from my helplessness, I forced myself to learn,
first of all encoding, then sending e-mail and
surfing the internet.

“It was only when I came
to Manila zoo that I
learned that a giraffe is
that tall and an elephant is
that big.”
- Grade 4 pupil
DISCUSSION:
Whatever skills or concepts we have did not come out of the
blue. We spent hours doing the activity by ourselves in order to aquire
the skill. The same thing is true with the previous narrators . They
learned the skills by doing. The Graduate School professor had to do
the computer task herself to learn the skill. The Grade IV pupil got a
crystal clear concept of the size of the elephant and height of the
giraffe after seeing with her eyes the real elephant and giraffe.

 Direct, Purposeful Experiences
These are the rich experiences that our senses bring from which
we construct the ideas, the concepts, the generalizations that give
meaning and order to our lives. (Dale, 1969). They are sensory
experiences. (Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

 Indirect Experiences
They are not our own self – experiences but still
experiences in the sense that we see, read and hear about
them. They are not firsthand but rather vicarious or indirect
experiences.

Why are these direct experiences described to be
purposeful?
Purposeful because the experiences are not purely mechanical.
They are experiences that are internalized in the sense that
these experiences involve the asking of questions that have
significance in the life of the person undergoing the direct
experience. They are also described as purposeful because
these experiences are undergone in relation to a purpose, i.e.
learning.

 “Direct, Purposeful Experiences and Beyond”
Implies that these direct experiences must not be the period or the dead
end. We must be brought to a higher plane. (Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

How should the Cone be interpreted?
The figure 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.). The numerical figures on the left side of
the image, what people will generally remember,
indicate that practical, hands-on experience in a real-
life context will allow students to remember best
what they do.
(http://www2.education.ualberta.ca/staff/olenka.Bilash/best%20of%20b
ilash/dalescone.html)
Again, it is important to remember that this doesn’t
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.
(http://www2.education.ualberta.ca/staff/olenka.Bilash/best%20of%20bilash/d
alescone.html)
The Grade IV pupil’s zoo experience of the elephant
and giraffe enables him to understand clearly and
visualize correctly an elephant and a giraffe upon reading
and hearing the words “elephant” and “giraffe”.

IMPLICATION OF DIRECT EXPERIENCES TO THE
TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS
1. It gives our students opportunities to learn

by doing.
2. It make use of real things as instructional
materials for as long as we can.
3. It helps students develop the five senses to
the full to heighten their sensitivity to the
world.
4. It guides students to draw meaning from
their firsthand experiences and elevate their
level of thinking.
HEARING
TOUCH
TASTE
SIGHT 75% SMELL
13% 6% 3%
APPROXIMATION OF HOW MUCH PERSONS LEARN

THROUGH THE FIVE SENSES
John Dewey (1916) has made this fundamental point
instinctly:
An ounce of experience is better than a ton of
theory because it is only in experience that any
theory has vital and verifiable significance. An
experience, a very humble experience, is capable of
generating and carrying any amount of theory (or
intellectual content), but a theory apart from an
experience cannot be definitely grasped as a theory.
John Dewey (1916) has made this fundamental point
instinctly:
It tends to become a mere verbal formula, a set of
catchwords used to render thinking, or genuine
theorizing, unnecessary and impossible.

SUMMATION:
Direct experiences are firsthand experiences that

serve as the foundation of learning. The opposite of
experiences are indirect experiences or vicarious
experiences.
Direct experiences lead us to concept formation

and abstraction. We should not end our lessons knowing
only the concrete. We go beyond the concrete by
reaching the level of abstract concepts.

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BLESS!

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“From the rich experiences that our senses bring,

we construct the ideas, the concepts, the

(Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

Identify different activities

Identify different activities under

Identify different activities under

Appreciate importance of hands-on

Compare the difference between

Direct, Purposeful Experiences

These are our concrete and firsthand experiences that make

up the foundation of our learning.

Are experiences of other people that we observe, read or

(Corpuz, Lucido 2012 )

Is a visual model, a pictorial device that presents

bands of experience arranged according to degree of

abstraction and not to degree of difficulty.

(Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

used to do computer job for me which made me

totally dependent on them. The problem was they

were not always around to help me with my

reports, lecture notes, etc. To redeem myself

from my helplessness, I forced myself to learn,

first of all encoding, then sending e-mail and

surfing the internet.

to Manila zoo that I

learned that a giraffe is

that tall and an elephant is

(Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

we construct the ideas, the concepts, the generalizations that give

experiences. (Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

They are not our own self – experiences but still

experiences in the sense that we see, read and hear about

them. They are not firsthand but rather vicarious or indirect

(Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

(Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

end. We must be brought to a higher plane. (Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

The figure shows what students will be able to

(Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

1. It gives our students opportunities to learn

APPROXIMATION OF HOW MUCH PERSONS LEARN

(Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

Direct experiences are firsthand experiences that

Direct experiences lead us to concept formation

(Corpuz, Lucido 2012)

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