It’s being used as a teaching device to signal that there might be something wrong with that cognitive process.
If a child insists that leaping to conclusions is wrong because of The Phantom Tollbooth, then I’d agree that something is wrong. But it’s a metaphor for the reality (it’s harder to get out of a conclusion than to reach it, and jumping to it tends to retard your progress and keep you from your goals).
Prove it. I really doubt that. I think they’re a highly ineffective teaching device relative to clean demonstrative thought-experiment parables. Analogies might be useful as scaffolding or a spec for learners to build to, but metaphors take it to a level of obfuscation that makes successful integration of the underlying principles of any given metaphorical package unlikely to ever occur.
Prove it. I don’t think the use of metaphor to transmit principles has a sound cognitive basis. I propose metaphors fail to integrate with a person’s knowledge base and their corresponding principles remain not latent but permanently inactive.
It’s being used as a teaching device to signal that there might be something wrong with that cognitive process.
If a child insists that leaping to conclusions is wrong because of The Phantom Tollbooth, then I’d agree that something is wrong. But it’s a metaphor for the reality (it’s harder to get out of a conclusion than to reach it, and jumping to it tends to retard your progress and keep you from your goals).
Metaphors are dangerous but incredibly valuable.
Prove it. I really doubt that. I think they’re a highly ineffective teaching device relative to clean demonstrative thought-experiment parables. Analogies might be useful as scaffolding or a spec for learners to build to, but metaphors take it to a level of obfuscation that makes successful integration of the underlying principles of any given metaphorical package unlikely to ever occur.
Prove it. I don’t think the use of metaphor to transmit principles has a sound cognitive basis. I propose metaphors fail to integrate with a person’s knowledge base and their corresponding principles remain not latent but permanently inactive.
Dangit. Does this gravestone hang around forever? I was only going to rewrite it.
Refresh the page, a Delete button will show up.
No? It doesn’t?
I believe how it works is that you can delete a retracted comment only if it has no replies.
… Irony.
You missed one.
I would have tried to coordinate with linkhyrule5 to delete our replies if a third person hadn’t gotten involved..
OK let’s retract our comments here and see if the tree gets pruned.
I think you can delete things, yes. Testing with this post.