LB#7

Direct Purposeful Experience and Beyond

"Experience is the best learning". This tag line best explain to the Direct Purposeful Experiences and Beyond that implies the principles of learning through sensory experiences that could uplift the quality of thinking. Learners can gain knowledge through hands-on activities and expose to firsthand experiences that could serves as the foundation of learning.

  In a classroom environment, teachers usually prepared a task design with the help of the learning facilities that could enrich students performance in school. Assessment of student learning should entails a curriculum that responds to student needs. The Direct Experience is one of the methods that could meet the student needs especially in developing their skills and abstract thought say for example the computer hands-on exam. We might wonder why some teachers exposed their students in field trips. Is it helpful eventhough learners spend much money for it? What's the essence of it?

  Maybe,we murmur and frowned of the fees but it emphasizes the learning by doing in seeing actual objects and use it for purposes. That's why direct experience advocates that book learning is no substitute for actual experience. This implies the "hands-on- minds-on" teaching strategies that stimulates the students through thought-provoking games, puzzles, field trips,computer hands-on,etc.that could develop one's learning and retention of the lesson.