Direct experiences are those that we encounter in our daily life and that we learn out from it. We can learn best about something by doing it ourselves. We need first hand experiences in order for us to understand it clearly. It is not just talking merely about observing, seeing or hearing it, it is rather than we, ourselves experience it. We cannot just improve overnight, but we can improve by practicing it and experiencing it ourselves. For instance, in the classroom setting, students may learn if they are told to listen in a recorded speech. They may learn out from it. However, student will learn best if they are told to deliver the speech by themselves. Aside from hearing themselves delivering the speech, they will be able to hear it whether it is pleasing to the listener or not. And from that they will learn the best strategies they must use to make their speech effective.
These direct experiences are referred to as purposeful in a sense that they are undergone in relation to a purpose- LEARNING. They are experiences that are internalize in the sense that these experiences involve the asking of questions that have significance in the life of the person undergoing the direct experiences.
As teachers, we dont just let our students having this direct experience just for fun, but instead we are letting them discover things and in turn they would have knowledge as to what they have been through. These learning will be always in their long term memory because they have experience it themselves.
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