Perception

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Oral Presentation Schedule

The Oral Presentation Schedule will be similar in 2015. We’ll start on February 23rd, with the guinea pig group presenting during the week of March 23rd and everyone else will present the week of April 6th and the following week.

Here is our Oral Presentation Planning Schedule:

Week of February 4th:

Introduction to Oral Presentation

Read Oral Presentation Guide and discuss.

Read this guide and discuss.

Read these this guide and this guide and discuss.

Read this guide and discuss:

Giving a Good TOK Presentation by Michael Smith

Review Revised Oral Presentation Outline

Review Oral Presentation Outline Model.

Review this Oral Presentation PowerPoint (found online by a student)

Watch an oral presentation and one from last year’s class:

Here’s a link that won’t be blocked by YouTube Safety Mode: TOK Presentation

Watch Presentation On Preparing For The TOK Oral Presentation.

Decide on partners and general topic.

Week of February 11th:

Identify Knowledge Issues (Problems of Knowledge) and begin developing draft outline

Go to TOK Guide starting at page 34

Review What Is A Knowledge Issue?

Review Excellent Examples Of Knowledge Issues For Oral Presentation

Review Excellent Models Of Student TOK Oral Presentation Outlines

Review Nobody Wants To Hear Your Academic Gobbledygook

Learn about telling stories at the second half of The Best Digital (& Non-Digital) Storytelling Resources.

Week Of February 18th:

Complete draft outline & begin learning about, and preparing, PowerPoint

Only after draft outline is submitted, begin reviewing Student Models Of PowerPoints For Oral Presentations

Review The Best Sources Of Advice For Making Good Presentations

Review Final Hints For Oral Presentation & PowerPoint and Oral Presentations Update.

Draft outlines returned with comments.

Decision made on “guinea pig” groups to present the following week.

Week of February 26th

Guinea pig groups present and are publicly critiqued. Rest of class has remainder of week to finalize their presentations. Names picked out of hat to determine presentation schedule.

Week of March 4th

Presentations

Week of March 11th

Finish presentations and prepare for second ones.

Weeks of March 18th & 25th

Second Presentations

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TOK Essay Prompts For May, 2013 Released!

May 2013

Theory of knowledge prescribed titles

Instructions to candidates

Your theory of knowledge essay for examination must be submitted to your teacher for authentication. It must be written on one of the six titles (questions) provided below. You may choose any title, but are recommended to consult with your teacher. Your essay will be marked according to the assessment criteria published in the Theory of Knowledge guide. The focus of your essays should be on knowledge issues. Where appropriate, refer to other parts of your IB programme and to your experiences as a knower. Always justify your statements and provide relevant examples to illustrate your arguments. Pay attention to the implications of your arguments, and remember to consider what can be said against them. If you use external sources, cite them according to a recognized convention.

Note that statements in quotations in these titles are not necessarily authentic: they present a real point of view but may not be direct quotes. It is appropriate to analyse them but it is unnecessary, even unwise, to spend time on researching a context for them.

Examiners mark essays against the title as set. Respond to the title exactly as given; do not alter it in any way.

Your essay must be between 1200 and 1600 words in length, double spaced and typed in size 12 font.

1. In what ways may disagreement aid the pursuit of knowledge in the natural and human sciences?

2. “Only seeing general patterns can give us knowledge. Only seeing particular examples can give us understanding.” To what extent do you agree with these assertions?

3. “The possession of knowledge carries an ethical responsibility.” Evaluate this claim.

4. The traditional TOK diagram indicates four ways of knowing. Propose the inclusion of a fifth way of knowing selected from intuition, memory or imagination, and explore the knowledge issues it may raise in two areas of knowledge.

5. “That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” (Christopher Hitchens). Do you agree?

6. Can we know when to trust our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge? Consider history and one other area of knowledge.

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Revised 2010 TOK Schedule

REVISED TOK SCHEDULE — 2010

Your TOK Essay will be due June 1st (outline due May 7th)

You will have one “practice” essay due April 1st (outline due March 12th), and another due on April 30th (outline due April 16th). Outlines and papers can be turned in early.

We will spend at least two days each week between March 15th and May 1st in the computer lab for you to work on your essays. Prior to March 15th, we will spend one-day each week in the Lab. After May 1st, if possible, we will spend three days each week in the Lab.

Talk with me if you would like to do your oral presentation a second time, and we’ll make time for it.

Week of February 22 Debrief Oral Presentations, Introduction to TOK Essay, Begin Natural Sciences

March 1st Natural Sciences

March 8th Human Sciences, Outline due for first Practice Essay

March 15th Finish Human Sciences, Begin Religion

March 22nd Finish Religion

March 29th Begin revisiting all Ways of Knowing & Areas of Knowledge two-to-three days each week, work on essays
during the other days. First practice essay due.

April 16th Outline due for second practice essay

April 30th Second Practice Essay due

May 7th Outline due for TOK Essay

June 1st TOK Essay Due

TOK ESSAY OUTLINE

TOK ESSAY TITLES 2009

TOK ESSAY TITLES 2008

  • Essay 1:   Grade A – 31 points out of 40 – May 2005
  • Essay 2:   Grade A – 31 points out of 40 – May 2005
  • Essay 3:   Grade A – 32 points out of 40 – May 2005
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The Milgram Experiment & The Stanford Prison Experiment

Review these resources on the Milgram Experiment. Please write in the comment section if you believe the Experiment was valid (did it really measure what Milgram thought he was measuring?) and if you think it was ethical. Give your reasons.

The Milgram Experiment from Johannes Jørgensen on Vimeo.

Disclose TV Video on Milgram experiment

Stanford Prison Experiment Overview (13 min) from Ryan Beck on Vimeo.

Stanford Prison Experiment-Zimbardo from Sansa Morse on Vimeo.

Stanford Prison Experiment Video


Critique of Experiment

Second Critique

Milgram’s Experiment

Stanley Milgram Experiment

Milgram Experiment Ethics

In March, 2010, a French game show tried to duplicate the experiment. Here’s article about the show. And here’s a video about it:

Learn about an experiment that occurred ten years after the Milgram Experiment: The Stanford Prison Experiment.

Review this list of the Ten most unethical psychology experiments.

Check Out This Real-Life Milgram Experiment:

A hoax most cruel: Caller coaxed McDonald’s managers into strip-searching a worker

And a movie about it, Compliance.

And a review of the movie.

Ever Meek, Ever Malleable is from The New York Times.

Rethinking One of Psychology’s Most Infamous Experiments

Review of movies done on both experiments.

Stanford Prison Experiment clips:

Milgram movie clips:

Modern Milgram experiment sheds light on power of authority is from Nature.

Milgram Experiment Replicated With Same Results

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The Scientific Method

Read:

What’s Wrong With the Scientific Method?

Is the scientific method seriously flawed?

Please go to:

pellagra-search-for-cure

Then go to “My Evidence” and complete all three sections.

Using what you have learned from these interactives, and from what you have learned during the class discussion on the scientific method, please formulate at least one Knowledge Issue question. Write them on a piece of paper and in the comments section of this post.

If you are done early, take this Scientific Method quiz.

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What Are Your Moral Principles?

Please visit the following four websites and answer the questions on each one. They each will provide an analysis of what your answers supposedly say about your moral principles. Take notes on a piece of paper about what they say and why, and if you agree with the and why or why not.

Philosophers’ Net Morality Game

Philosophy Games

Should You Kill The Fat Man?

Morals – Social Responsibility Questionnaire

Your Morals

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Oral Presentation Outline

Please use this guide to prepare your Oral Presentation Outline:

TOK ORAL PRESENTATION OUTLINE
This is not meant to be a “script” to be followed. It is a general outline, and can be presented in many different ways that we will discuss.
Length of Presentation:
Two people – twenty minutes (including 8 minutes of class discussion)
Three people – thirty minutes (including 12 minutes of class discussion)
Each person should present for the same period of time

INTRODUCTION (No more than two minutes)
What is your topic?
What is the real-life example that got you think about it?
What are the claims that people make about it and how are they justified?
What are the knowledge issues (the “obstacles” to knowledge; the “Ways Of Knowing”) involved in the claims?
What “Areas of Knowing” will you relate the obstacles to? (Linking Questions)

BODY (Six or seven minutes for each person in total – it doesn’t have to be all in one “chunk”)
What are the claims and how are they justified?
What are the knowledge issues involved, including counter-examples, cross-cultural examples, and personal examples? How is it claimed to be known and how trustworthy are those methods?
What are examples from different Areas of Knowledge? (Linking Questions)

CONCLUSION (One minute)
What did you investigate? What did you learn? What do you think/feel now about it?

CLASS QUESTIONS:
Have “open-ended” questions for the class – What do they think? Why do they think it?

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Choose A Piece Of Art

Go to Art Galleries. Choose a painting and then, using the hand-out outline, write a short comment (include the link to the artwork you chose).

You should comment on:

Description

Analysis

Interpretation

Judgment

You can also choose a work of art from these sources:

The Greatest Works of Art

Another site titled The Greatest Works of Art

Best Works of Art in the World

Famous Paintings

The World’s 50 Best Works of Art (and how to see them)

50 Most Famous Works posters (this is from a site that sells posters, but does provides nice images of famous pieces of art)