Dale's Cone of Experience

Why might Dale's Cone of Experience be of interest to someone in an instructional technology course?

The interest is in how students learn and what is best way to teach students in a technology rich environment of today's world. Every student learns differently and for teachers in today's world, we must use their learning differences or modes to help them learn effectively rather than against them and they do not learn at all.

Dale's Cone of Experience: Science or Nonsense?

I think his perception of different modes of learning is not science but rather basic knowledge. We learn through all the different modes one way or another which means all areas of his cone overlap at some point in our learning process. I may learn best by Study Trips to Demonstrations while you learn best through Direct Purposeful Experiences and Contrived Experiences. I don't believe his model to be nonsense because the evidence is out there to support his theory and still in the testing phase due to student's learning differences. Just like Einstein's theory of relativity took years to construct with factual basis, so does Dale's Cone of Experience and that factual basis lies within the teacher wanting to find the best method of teaching all of her students.