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Which table is bigger?

Which table is bigger?. How do you know?. Old woman or young woman?. Traditional TOK diagram. AOK: What do you know?. The course is centered on your questioning and reflection of yourself and what you know as the knower .

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Which table is bigger?

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  1. Which table is bigger? How do you know?

  2. Old woman or young woman?

  3. Traditional TOK diagram AOK: What do you know? • The course is centered on your questioning and reflection of yourself and what you know as the knower. • You could receive knowledge through sense perception, affected perhaps by a spiritual emotional dimension, labeled emotion. • Knowledge could then be formulated and expressed through language. • Then shaped by attempts, through reason, to seek order and clarity. WOK: How do you know it? Ms Chakar - Sept 2011

  4. Introduction to IB • A challenging programme that meets the needs of highly motivated students. • The Diploma Programme requires you to choose six subjects, one subject from each of the six subject groups. • Some will be explored broadly (SL). Some will be explored in depth(HL). • In addition to the six subjects, successful DP students need to meet three additional requirements. • Theory of knowledge (TOK) • Extended essay of some 4,000 words. • Participation in the creativity, action, service (CAS). Ms Chakar - Sept 2011

  5. Introduction to TOK How do you get knowledge? What is knowledge? Flagship: 1. (Transport / Nautical Terms) the most important ship belonging to a shipping company. 2. (Business / Marketing) a single item from a related group considered as the most important. The TOK course, a flagship element in the Diploma Programme, encourages critical thinking about knowledge itself, to try to help you make sense of what you encounter. Its core content is questions like these: knowledge? Ms Chakar - Sept 2011

  6. Why should we do TOK? • This course encourages you to thinkcritically about the subjects you are studying rather than passively accepting what you are taught. • TOK is designed to help you to reflect on and further develop the thinking skills you have acquired in your other classes. • We will look at ways we might look for an answer to questions and certain problems that arise. Ms Chakar - Sept 2011

  7. What makes TOK unique? You have at least 16 years of life experience and more than 10 years of formal education behind you. You have gathered a large amount of knowledge, beliefs and opinions from academic disciplines and your lives outside the classroom. In TOK you have the opportunity to step back from this relentless acquisition of new knowledge, in order to consider knowledge issues. Ms Chakar - Sept 2011

  8. The main questions in TOK What do you know? How do you know it? Is it likely to be true or not? Ms Chakar - Sept 2011

  9. How much of what you know is true? Which of these quotes is true? Experts can get it wrong, so why not you? • “The Internet will never take off.” • Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft (1988) • “I think there will be a world market for five computers.” • Thomas Watson, founder of IBM (1958) • “The atom bomb will never go off and I speak as an expert.” • Admiral W. Leahy, advisor to the US President (1945)

  10. Grade 12 Formal Assessment Ms Chakar - Sept 2011

  11. EIS TOK Journal Assessment Form There is also a class discussion assessment form

  12. Elements of TOK Term 2 • Areas of Knowledge (AOK) • Mathematics • Natural sciences • Social sciences • History • Arts • Ethics • Religion Term 3 Presentations • Rehearsal presentation • Final presentations Term 1 • Knowledge issues, knowers and knowing • What is knowledge? • What is a belief? • What is truth? • Levels of knowledge • Ways of Knowing (WOK) • Perception • Reason • Emotion • Language Ms Chakar - Sept 2011

  13. Emotions They may provide us with the energy to pursue knowledge, but it is far from clear that they are infallibleguides to the truth. TOK is concerned with how you believe something rather than what you believe. Whatever you believe, you should, for example, try to support your belief with evidence and be able to consider and respond to criticisms of your views. Ms Chakar - Sept 2011 infallible: incapable of making an error, reliable, dependent

  14. What is knowledge? • What is a belief? • What is truth? • Levels of knowledge • Perception • Reason • Emotion • Language Knowledge issues, knowers and knowing WOK Ways of knowing TOK • Mathematics • Natural sciences • Social sciences • History • Arts • Ethics • Religion Presentations AOK Areas of Knowing • Rehearsal presentation • Final presentations Ms Chakar - Sept 2011

  15. Further reading Website: IBO – International Baccalaureate Organisation http://xmltwo.ibo.org/dp2006-03/dp_x_tokxx_guu_0603_1_e/5 Book: Theory of knowledge for IB Diploma – Richard van de Lagemaat

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