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Prescribed title
Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Theory of Knowledge Assessment Rubric. A Understanding knowledge issues. This criterion is concerned with the extent to which the essay focuses on knowledge. Issues relevant to the prescribed title, and with the depth and breadth of the understanding demonstrated in the essay by drawing distinctions within ways of knowing and areas of knowledge, or by connecting several facets of knowledge issues to these and making comparisons between ways of knowing and areas of knowledge.
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Ethics
Thursday, September 1, 2011. Plagiarism do the Lines Blur. During the past few classes. We have discussed academic integrity. Pick two Areas of Knowledge (Math, Natural Science, Human Science, History, Art and Ethics). Compare and contrast how plagiarism would be defined for these two Areas of Knowledge. Your response should be a word-processed document consisting of at least 10 sentences. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. A clean cell in hell awaits hijacker. Supermax is the major industry in Florence, a town...
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Theory of Knowledge: Year Two
Theory of Knowledge: Year Two. Monday, September 15, 2014. Thursday, August 28, 2014. Introduction to Year Two. 1 intro to year 2 2014. Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Read the article below about twitter outlining the different theories of learning and how Twitter could be used for each. Which theory do you think best applies to our IB program? Which theory do you find most helpful as a style of learning? Which theory do you find most helpful as a style of learning? Within cognitivism, a clear distinction betwe...
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Ways of Knowing: Reason
Ways of Knowing: Reason. Monday, August 24, 2009. Reason and Critical Thinking (Post 1). What is Critical Thinking? Recently there has been a shift to promote critical thinking as part of your everyday curriculum. The assumption built into critical thinking is that it is about evaluating an argument according to the quality of the justification and the quality of the persuasion. Why all this fuss about arguments? The general answer is that unlike descriptions, jokes, stories, exclamations, questions, and...
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Ways of Knowing: Emotion
Ways of Knowing: Emotion. Wednesday, September 23, 2009. The Enemies of Reason is a two-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist. Part 4 Dowsing (explain a double blind test). Part 6 Satish Kumar (make a connection between this thinking and MMR vaccine scandal). Thursday, August 27, 2009. 1 "Men in Black" on Knowledge. Issues and questions to consider. 1) What does the word "know," in the various forms used in this quote from the third sentence on, mean? So many factor...
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Art
Tuesday, April 3, 2012. How might we distinguish between TOK claims made about the nature of art? The youtube clip below begins with the claim, “Art is anything that anyone creates which evokes a reaction from someone else.”. Other claims made include:. 8220;Just becasue you say its art, it doesn’t mean it’s art…”. 8220;the monkey that throws pooh, he’s making art, because he’s living the experience….that’s art…”. Saturday, October 30, 2010. Just what do the arts have to offer school children? These are ...
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ToK Year Two: Marking Period 2
ToK Year Two: Marking Period 2. Sunday, April 15, 2012. 1 Tedtalk: The Real Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives. 2 How Juries are Fooled by Statistics. 3 Robots the "Show Emotion". 4 How it feels to have a stroke. 5 Do schools kill creativity? 6 The paradox of choice. 7 How I held my breath of 17 minutes. 8 Teaching arts and science together. 9 Who needs a good education? 10 The mystery box. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). ToK Year Two Home. 1 The Internet Shows the Messy Truth About Knowledge.
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Marking Period 3
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Marking Period 1
Saturday, August 25, 2012. Greatest Star Spangled Banner Ever! Sunday, April 15, 2012. Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? 1 Trial, error and the God Complex. Saturday, April 14, 2012. 3 Don't eat the marshmellow. Sunday, April 10, 2011. 4 The danger of a single story. Saturday, April 9, 2011. 5 Where Does Creativity Hide? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). ToK Year Two Home. 1 The Practical and the Theoretical. 2 Evaluating Knowledge Claims. 3 Values and Culture in Ethical Decision Making. 8 Auto Crrect Ths!
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Areas of Knowledge: Science
Areas of Knowledge: Science. Tuesday, August 25, 2009. The Importance of Knowing (Post 1). If you are a track and field fan, you followed the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, you'll be familiar with the controversy regarding the South African Women's 800 metres champion. Caster Semenya. There are allegations from her fellow athletes and others that the eighteen year old sportswoman is a man. The Importance of Knowing'. Compare this with a Guardian. Both of the above-mentioned articles point to ca...
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Area of Knowledge: Math
Area of Knowledge: Math. Saturday, January 10, 2009. WAS MATHETMATICS DISCOVERED OR CREATED? Pythagoras (571-496 B.C.), a mathematician (perhaps best known for his "Pythagorean theorem") and philosopher born in Samos, Greece, believed that the answer to the big question "What is reality made of? Lay in mathematics. Pythagoras is famously quoted as having said "All is number." He even went as far as to declare that justice was the number 4 as it was a square number. 2 Do you agree with him? Read the brief...
