¥Q Does the Cone of Experience
overemphasize instructional devices (the media of
communication) at the expense of subject matter (the message to
be communicated)?
¥A Actually, use of the Cone may
lead to an enhancement of our subject matter presentations. Indeed, the Cone may help us to choose the
instructional materials that are most appropriate for the
particular topic we wish to teach. The Cone can help us to understand
these relationships between media and the messages they convey. It suggests, in
fact, that various instructional materials differ in the degree of sensory
experience
they are able to provide. Our selection of instructional
materials, therefore, will depend on the amount of sensory
experience we wish to provide for a particular topic of our lesson.
And the Cone can help us "place" a teaching method; it
can help us select the way of communicating most suited to the
experience we wish to convey.
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