Technology in Education

4.    The topic of Technology in Education is very vast, what I am attempting is trying to share my experience of 40 years in the field of education. During earlier times the only teaching aids which a teacher used, if at all he did, were Chart, chalk board, Overhead projector, cutouts, models etc.  

Edgar Dale (April 27, 1900 – March 8, 1985) was an American educationist who developed the Cone of Experience. He made several contributions to audio and visual instruction, including a methodology for analyzing the content of motion pictures. Born and raised in North Dakota he received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of North Dakota and a Ph.D from the University of Chicago. His doctoral thesis was titled, "Factual Basis for Curriculum Revision in Arithmetic with Special Reference to Children's Understanding of Business Terms." and is pre-cursor for his later work with vocabulary and readability. He was a professor of education at Ohio State University.

In 1933 Dale wrote a paper on how to effectively create a High School film appreciation class. This paper has been noted for having a very different view of adolescent interaction with films than that taken by the Film Control Boards of the time.

Dale's Cone of Experience gives an insight to the planners as to how the process of imparting knowledge and skills can be made lasting and easy.

  

The concept of E-learning, as we would see in our discussion further, has been developed in consonance with the philosophy of Edgar Dale.