Classifying Instructional Media

Cone Of Experience

Mae M. Ocubillo

Verbal SymbolsIncludes textbooks and other printed

materials and plain lecture about the group.

Supplementary materials textbooks

Visual SymbolsContains graphs, cartoons, comic strips, and

other visual symbols

Recording, Radio, Still Pictures Involves recordings of folk songs or

conversation in the native dialect and/ or still pictures showing costumes or any significant activities of the group.

Motion pictures It is about movies or films on a certain group.

Educational TelevisionTelevise lecture or show about the group is an

excellent tool to raise awareness and shared understanding

Motion picture videos

Exhibits Exhibits of artifacts, tools, costumes, and

other material aspects of the culture is a good type of educational media.

Displays diorama

Study tripsConducting a fieldtrip to a local community is

a tool towards experiential learning .

Going to museum

Demonstration Demonstration by an authority or a resource

person about certain activities or rituals of a group is a form of actual learning.

Dramatized ExperienceDramatization by some members of the class

who may have done some research about the cultural group is a result of participatory learning.

Theater play pageant

Contrived ExperienceSimulating certain activities or physical

aspects of the local culture so that the experiences become more real is a valuable way to learn and express one’s learning.

Models specimens

Direct, purposeful experienceDirectly involving the class in a certain

activities of the group such as planting, harvesting, praying, and the like Is both experiential and participatory.