A visual model, a pictorial device that presents bands of experience arranged according to degree of abstraction (the amount of immediate sensory participation that is involved) and not degree of difficulty.
We have 5 senses: touching, hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling. The cone of experience shows the amount or level of sensory participation in each experience. Each one may overlap and sometimes blend into one another. One may not necessarily mean that it is more educationally useful that the other. These can be mixed.
In teaching, we choose what kind of experience will be appropriate for our students. These may vary widely according to their age, interests, learning capacity and subject matter. Keeping their attention focused on the lesson is an objective. To do this, we use various types of medium to keep them interested. Colorful visual aids may spark interest among little children. But this would probably be not the case among fourth year students. The older the person, the more abstract his concepts are likely to be.
So the Cone of Experience, as I understand it, is simply a visual presentation of the amount of sensory participation and learning resources in teaching. A combination of two or more mediums may be used altogether.
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