Lesson 7

"Direct Purposeful Experiences and Beyond"

       Direct experiences are first hand experiences that serve as the foundation of learning. Direct experiences are basically what the students learn by doing it. This way of teaching is known to be the most effective way of teaching the students because experiences are the best teacher.

         In contrast, indirect experiences are experiences of others; people that we observe, read or hear about. They are not our own self-experiences but still experiences on the sense that we see, read, and hear about them. They are not first hand but vicarious experiences.

Some examples of direct experiences are:

• preparing meals
• doing power point presentations
• delivering a speech
• etc.

     These experiences are described to be purposeful because they are experiences that are internalized in the sense that these experiences involve asking of questions that have significance i  the life of the person undergoing the direct experience.