KAREN KAY N.

LEONOR
BSED IV
1.

JUNE 30, 2015

Reflection Paper #1

After a lesson on the Cone of Experience, can you now explain why our
teachers in Literature discourage us from reading only comics or
illustrated comic version of novels which can be read in pocketbooks?
Comics, while a form of literature, do not expose your developing mind
to the range of forms that the written work can take. You teacher is
trying to get you to appreciate the beauty of a written novel, poetry,
learned essays etc.
Reading comics is discourage by our teachers because it stimulate little
senses. Reading pocketbooks is encouraged because it involve both the
abstract and concrete learning experiences which awakens the higher
level thinking compared to comics reading only.

2.

How does the dictum in philosophy there is nothing in the mind that
was not first in the senses relate to what you learned from the Cone of
Experience?

The quote there is nothing in mind that was not first in the sense
means that learning starts from the awakening of our senses and good
thinking noted good concrete and iconic learning. Nothing can be known if
one has not had the experience that would allow knowledge of that idea or
subject. And so, to be in the mind, it must first be in the senses---or it must
be abstracted from sensory experience.
3.

Alfred North Whitehead said: In the Garden of Eden, Adam saw the
animals before he named them. In the traditional system, children name
the animals before they see them. How would you relate this remark to
the Cone of Experience?

The statement children name the animals before they see them mean
that in traditional school or system children are taught of memorization and
WHAT to learn instead of how to learn. In the cone of experience old school
start must of the time in abstract rather than concrete level first they started
upside down.
4.

When Dale formulated the Cone of Experience, computers were not yet a
part educational or home settings so they are not part of the original
Cone. The computer technology actively engages the learner, who uses

seeing, hearing and physical activity at the keyboard as well as range of

mental skills. Where will the computer be on the Cone?
When Dale formulated the cone of experience, computers were not a
part of educational or home settings, so they aren't part of the original cone.
Given the fact that computer technology actively engages the learner, who
uses seeing, hearing, and physical activity at the keyboard as well as a range
of mental skills, computer-based instruction probably becomes level 4 or 5
from the bottom of the cone.