CONTRIVED EXPERIENCES

“We teach through a re-arrangement of the raw reality: a specimen, a manageable sample of a whole… when the direct experience cannot be used properly in its natural setting.”

-Edgar Dale

EXAMPLE OF CONTRIVED EXPERIENCES Mock up Models Specimen Artifacts Simulation Games

CONTRIVED EXPERIENCE

Is an ‘’edited” copies of reality and are used as substitutes for real thing.

MODELS

Is a reproduction of a real thing in a small scale, or a large scale, or exact size-but made of synthetic materials.

MOCK UP

Is an arrangement of a real device or associated devices, displayed in such a way that representation of reality is created.

SPECIMEN

Is any individual or item considered typical of a group class or whole. It is simply part of a whole thing.

ARTIFACTS

Displayed in a museum or objects displayed in exhibits or preserved insects specimen in science.

SIMULATION

Is a representation of manageable real event in which the learner is an active participant engaged in learning a behavior or in applying previously acquired skills or knowledge.

GAMES

Forms of physical exercise taught to children at school

Difference between games and simulation

GAMES- are played to win SIMULATION- need not have a winner

WHY DO WE MAKE USED OF CONTRIVED EXPERIENCES?

1. Overcome limitations of space and time,

2. To “edit” reality for us to be able to focus on parts or a process of a system that intend to study,

3. To overcome difficulties of size,

4. To understand the inaccessible, and

5. Help the learners understand abstractions.