Some general questions regarding the construction of knowledge are:
How do we justify our knowledge?
What is allowed as good evidence?
What constitutes an acceptable explanation?
How do we know which model is the most accurate?
Knowledge questions are at
the very center of the class. An explicit aim of TOK is that the
student learn to "formulate, evaluate, and attempt to answer knowledge
questions." At first many students find all this extraordinarily
difficult. Let's take a look at the criteria for Knowledge
Questions. The IB Course Guide gives clear criteria for Knowledge Questions. They are:
- Open-ended questions. These are questions that have more than one plausible answer. You must explain and justify your answer. It does not inevitably mean that a question is irresolvable. One answer may be more correct than another.
- Explicitly about knowledge.
- Expressed in TOK terms. These are a selection of terms: Belief, Certainty, Evidence, Explanation, Fact, Hypothesis, Ideology, Interpretation, Judgement, Knowledge, Law, Paradigm, Theory.
- Clear in the relationships between these terms
Research Question: what is it about human perception that makes the world around us appealing or not?
ReplyDeleteReal Life Situation: Article on the human perception of "cute" taken from national geographic. Exploring how the human brain perceives the world around us.
By: Max Pregoni, Cristiana Alagna, Cauê Carlvalho
Grade 11 TOK
Research Question: To what extent can there be knowledge without reason?
ReplyDeleteReal Life Situation: Creationism Vs. Evolution debate with Ken Ham and Bill Nye
By: Marisa Sweeney, Gabriel Negash
Grade 11 TOK
Research Question: Is Faith a form of imagination
ReplyDeleteReal Life Situation: Jehovah's Witness teen loses appeal over life-saving transfusion
Read more: Jehovah's Witness teen loses appeal over life-saving transfusion
By: Marco Dietrich, Mihnea Cristea
Grade 11 TOK
By: Ramzi Shatara, Chiara Vanoli and Balqis Gaddur
ReplyDeleteReal Life Situation: An experiment comparing a written conversation vs a conversation solely written in emojis. Which one is more feasible?
Research Question: To what extent does visual language\symbolic language limit our understanding through communication?
TOK question: Does language effect the way we think?
ReplyDeleteReal Life Situation: Stanford University experiment on english speakers and australian aborigenes on ecocentric and geocentric language.
TOK question: To what extent does culture influence perception?
ReplyDeleteReal Life Situation: Internet censorship in China, Cuba and Italy.
Beatrice L: To what extent is intuition valid in Mathematics?
ReplyDeleteReal life situation: Magnus Carlsen 2013
Research Question : How is Faith proved impossible through Empiricism
ReplyDeleteRLS : My (hypothetical) belief in God
Olly M
Ryo Sasaki + Paloma Laye:
ReplyDeleteKnowledge Question: To what extent can language affect our memory?