Tok intro, maps 1
- 1. TOK- Theory of Knowledge An integral part of the IB diploma programme
- 2. IB Learner Profile • Inquirers • Knowledgeable • Thinkers • Communicators • Principled • Open-minded • Caring • Risk-takers • Balanced • Reflective
- 4. Some key questions: • What is knowing? • How can one know? • How do beliefs and knowledge fit together?
- 5. The goal or key to success in TOK • Being critical • Focusing on perception, emotion, language and reasoning and other ways pf knowing.
- 6. General Knowledge quiz: Name a famous: • Painter • Politician • Inventor • Scientist • Writer • Explorer • Musician • Religious figure • Historical figure • Sporting figure
- 7. Part II: **Now once you are done, cross out the following from your list in this order: -men -white people from Western, developed societies. -share who you have left (are there any?)! • Discussion starter: WHO/WHAT/WHERE/HOW/WHEN/WHY shapes your frame of reference? • Research: find diverse answers to the questions! • This consciousness-raising exercise will hopefully increase your awareness of how each individual forms their opinions, and how others do as well.
- 8. Let’s begin: 5 minute exercise • Take a sheet of paper and draw a map of the world. There is no correct or incorrect map merely your mental representation as accurately as you can show on paper. • At the end, you will show your map to the class.
- 9. Only one way to see the world?
- 10. Whose view?
- 11. The Mercator Projection Map
- 16. Gaining our maps…. • Where is our knowledge from? • Possible answer: Families, friends, classmates, books, television, the Internet, political leaders, religious leaders. • From all the ideas we absorb, combined with our personal experiences, we shape our own beliefs and our own knowledge.