Lesson 1-2
There is nothing better than having another chance at doing something better than before. I am very excited to start teaching TOK again and looking at it with the experience of the previous year.
We will spend more time focusing on real tasks and less on just talking - not that there is anything wrong with talking - we have forgotten the art of conversation.
In this first lesson we will try to see how much we are influenced by the way we perceive the world.
In the first few weeks we are going to have a critical look at ways of knowing and discuss how they help and hinder us in understanding the world around us.
We will start with students' own knowledge and they will try to come up with a series of things that they know - we will organise these according to the different areas of knowledge and look for ways of proving/disproving their knowledge by presenting the sources and the evidence of their knowledge claims.
Task: Think of something you used to think to be true.
By the end of the lesson students will hopefully understand what the subject is about why we are studying it and what it's role is in the IB curriculum.
Here are few posts about things we used to believe
Smashinglist
Thoughtcatalog
Businessinsider
There is nothing better than having another chance at doing something better than before. I am very excited to start teaching TOK again and looking at it with the experience of the previous year.
We will spend more time focusing on real tasks and less on just talking - not that there is anything wrong with talking - we have forgotten the art of conversation.
In this first lesson we will try to see how much we are influenced by the way we perceive the world.
In the first few weeks we are going to have a critical look at ways of knowing and discuss how they help and hinder us in understanding the world around us.
- reason
- sense perception
- emotion
- faith
- intuition
- imagination
- memory
- language
We will start with students' own knowledge and they will try to come up with a series of things that they know - we will organise these according to the different areas of knowledge and look for ways of proving/disproving their knowledge by presenting the sources and the evidence of their knowledge claims.
Task: Think of something you used to think to be true.
By the end of the lesson students will hopefully understand what the subject is about why we are studying it and what it's role is in the IB curriculum.
Here are few posts about things we used to believe
Smashinglist
Thoughtcatalog
Businessinsider
This went quite well. Interesting conversation with interesting people with a variety of opinions and ideas. We seem to have a good grasp of what TOK is all about and we can start analysing and taking the curriculum apart and investigate what they know and how they know they know it.
ReplyDeleteThey's all been given 2 pages from a philosophical paper on knowledge and their task is to choose a phrase- sentence-expression they want to discuss next week.