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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School: Objectives of the course

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School. Sunday, August 23, 2009. Objectives of the course. According to the IB Subject Guide, having completed course students should be able to:. 1 analyse critically knowledge claims, their underlying assumptions and their implications. 2 generate questions, explanations, conjectures, hypotheses, alternative ideas and possible solutions in response to knowledge issues concerning areas of knowledge, ways of knowing and students' own experience as learners.

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School: Solving Problems Using Critical Thinking (Post 3)

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School. Saturday, August 22, 2009. Solving Problems Using Critical Thinking (Post 3). Imagine you are in charge of airport security at an international airport in Florida. An American Airlines counter clerk calls to inform you that a person scheduled to get on Flight 1304 to Dallas has refused to board the plane, claiming that she is psychic and she senses that there is a bomb on board. Did you do the right thing? Who is the better critical thinker you or your boss?

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School: Put On Your Thinking Cap

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School. Wednesday, August 19, 2009. Put On Your Thinking Cap. Please read the questions below. Select one and write your thoughts on the question. It should have personal and real world examples that support your thoughts. It should be at least 150 words and no more then 200 words. Your thoughts maybe read in class, by you. 1 How do “believing that” and “believing in” differ? How does belief differ from. 2Is common sense just what is taken for granted in a community?

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School: ToK Reaction to: Missle Report

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School. Wednesday, August 19, 2009. ToK Reaction to: Missle Report. Check out one of your classmates finds and place a comment about it. Please be sure to identify which one you are commenting about. Http:/ www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering. Http:/ video.google.com/videosearch? 3 Brandon and Amanda (nice connection to current events). Http:/ www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/us/politics/10obama.html? Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch?

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School: Iranian Missle Crisis? (Post 4)

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School. Friday, August 21, 2009. These video clips seems to suggest a serious threat to American allies in the middle east. Stories like these, may have lead America into war, in the past. A missile crisis turned out to be an exercise in Photoshop techniques. If this or any other news story was iimportant to you. What would you do to determine the news story was correct? Friday, August 21, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School: Questions on the Truman Show

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School. Wednesday, August 19, 2009. Questions on the Truman Show. The film focusses upon issues of perception. And reality, Plato’s Cave. 1) “We accept the truth of the reality with which we are presented” (Christof) . Can you link the experience of Truman to that of the prisoners in Platos Cave? 2) “We’ve become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions, we’re tired of pyrotechnics and special effects”. How real is Trumans world? 3) What is real in Seahaven?

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School: Aims of the course

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School. Monday, August 24, 2009. Aims of the course. According to the IB Subject Guide, the aims of the TOK course are to:. 1 Develop a fascination with the richness of knowledge as a human endeavour, and an understanding of the empowerment that follows from reflecting upon it. 2 Develop an awareness of how knowledge is constructed, critically examined, evaluated and renewed, by communities and individuals. Monday, August 24, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School: Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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In Search of Knowledge at Commack High School. Thursday, August 20, 2009. Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Watch the Youtube clip below and answer the question. At first he is blinded by the revelation, but soon his senses become accustomed to the real world and he is anxious to return to his erstwhile companions and tell them of the sun-drenched surface. But they think him crazy, think him mad. And why should they believe him if they have no real grasp of what it is he is trying to tell them?