Learning Episode 7:

Direct, Purposeful
Experiences and Beyond
“From the rich experiences that our senses
bring, we construct the ideas, the concepts,
the generalizations that give meaning and
order to our lives.”
 Direct, Purposeful Experiences
 These are our concrete and firsthand
experiences that make up the foundation of our
learning.
 These are rich experiences that our senses
bring from which we construct the ideas, the
concepts, the generalizations that give meaning
and order to our lives.
 Direct Activities
 These may be preparing meals, making a piece
of furniture, doing power point presentation,
preforming a laboratory experiment, delivering a
speech or taking a trip.
Preparing Meals or Snack
Making a piece of furniture
Preforming a Laboratory Experiment
Delivering a Speech
Taking a Trip
 Indirect Activities

 These are the people we observed, read or hear

about. They are not our own self-expriences but
still experience in the sense that we see, read
and hear about them.
Why are these direct experiences describe
to purposeful?

 Purposeful because the experiences are not

purely mechanical, they are not matter of going
through the motion. These are not “mere
sensory excitation”.
 If direct, purposeful experiences or firsthand
sensory experiences make us learn concepts and
skills effectively, what does this imply to the
teaching learning process?
• Let the students given the opportunities to learn by
doing.
• It lets us make us use of real things as instructional
materials as long as we can.
• It lets us help the students to develop the 5 senses to
the full to heighten their sensitivity to the world.
Thank you & God Bless!
REPORTER:
JELA DELA PEÑA
JASON DELA PEÑA