Metaphor and metacognition: Alise Shafer Ivey at TEDxSunsetPark

Metaphor and Metacognition: the mind when pushed to invention
Alise is the founder and director of Evergreen Community School in Santa Monica, California. Her work with children over the last 30 years sheds light on not only how children think, but also explores the ways in which the thinking of children generates, illuminates, and inspires dialogue and creativity in adults. Recognizing children as vital contributors to culture, Alise shares how children's unfettered perceptions have the power to jump-start the adult mind with refreshing and novel points of view.
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[@vak5461]

Amazing!! Couldn't nap to this, to freaking fantastic and inspiring.

[@deejolee]

I feel so lucky that i got a chance to meet you Alise. Thank you for everything...it surely changed my perspective. U R Awesome!!

[@ruthlewis673]

More of us need to reach out and hold a child's hand or maybe just what remains of the child within us.

[@mariehong3503]

Thank you . ❤

[@ShirleyRawlings]

Very interesting and insightful talk.

[@martshan]

I wonder if the marshmallow test simply sorted out individuals who were more trusting of authority, who are likely to flourish as cogs in our institutional world

[@markpowell4615]

Great point.

[@zhengqiu4346]

or after the test can we teach the children self-regulate?

[@bhuvaneshwarjoshi3683]

Need to spend more time with children to encourage their creative thinking to prepare next gen to be ready to manage the Ai usefully.

[@AJ-qd5cs]

This video is heavily edited, but I don't think it gets to the root of the topic and some questioning to the kids is totally leading. Ideas are generated inside our brains, well why ? Maybe Carl Jung was into something and we distil a collective unconscious thought into an idea and we in our own arrogance assume we created it. And why do ideas have to be thrown out and get caught by someone else ? Perhaps the only thing we are doing is opening the perception levels of another person to be able to distil that idea as well from the collective unconscious. Also, who says ideas are big or small ? That question was leading, I didn't hear the kids saying this is a small idea, definitely the thought of ice cream for a child can't be a small one. And who says ideas are good or bad ? Ideas are just that, their application into real life makes them either beneficial for us and other or not, implementable in real Life or not, does that make them a bad idea ?? Lastly, kids aren't good at metaphorical thinking until about age 7+, not sure why the focus on this young kids, that's why they can't understand or tell jokes that use words with double meaning (eg. What did mama bear tell the cubs before going outdoors to play?; Don't go out in barefeet!!) :)

[@marshacreary2442]

Rotfl! Kids are hilarious

[@zhengqiu4346]

Children are AMAZING

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Metaphor and metacognition. Really? As a university professor, I ABHORE!!!! opaque and obfuscating language.

[@Awreppe1]

Why? As a student of cognitive science, it's a well-made video based off of current cognitive science like George Lakoff (U.C. Berkeley).

[@Frankincensedjb123]

A Rep "based off of"? College student? Really? And by the way, I was being factitious (you'll need to look that one up, of course)

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Kira Kezia-Pearl That's rude? Welcome to the Internet. It gets MUCH worse. wow!

[@Frankincensedjb123]

A Rep Proper usage is "based on." You've been totally discredited, which is not unusual since 80% of people on the Internet are complete morons. Blocked.

[@JackLee7223]

Frankincensed Then there's the codswallop about inherited memories. Why can't these people just stick with what is, rather than speculate about woo woo nonsense? Totally unscientific.