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Skip to the correct section by clicking the links below: 1. How to choose your essay topic: the things to keep in mind by Ishaan 2. Basic guide to writing the essay by Julie 3. 5 Things to do Before you Finish your TOK Essay
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Skip to these useful links: 1. ToK Presentation Guide by Keel 2. How to pick your TOK presentation title by Sandwich 3. Past TOK Presentations - what people chose ToK Presentation Guide Knowledge Issues 'Knowledge issue' i.e. issues about knowledge. It would be appropriate here to consider what ToK is all about. Many naturally assume that anything philosophically based is ToK. Understandable, but wrong. ToK is based around three main questions: What is knowledge? How is knowledge acquired? How do we know what we know? In layman’s terms, a knowledge issue is a very general question which aims to explore the problems of kn…
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Skip to useful links: Video Summary of TOK (workshop) To every confused soul out there who is yet to start their first year in IB and fear the nice philosophical subject of TOK. This here thread is me explaining to you what exactly this subject is:). What is TOK? The Theory of knowledge is a minor branch of Philosophy which, when learned, enables one to think about and evaluate the knowledge that we gain rather than just accept it as "truth". In English: we learn how to not be suckers and believe everything we're told . Why go through the pain and agony of learning it? Well basically, because the IBO says so But really, after my IB experience I've realized the…
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Hello noob TOKers This thread contains links to the discussion topics for TOK titles. Please consult the following list and skip to the list of titles for the year you are interested in, and then click on the link to find the discussion. If there is no discussion topics listed for that title, please have a quick look at the TOK board and, if one really doesn't exist, post a new one. Thanks! November 2014 May 2014 November 2013">November 2013 May 2013 November 2012 Nov11/May12 Nov10/May11 Nov09/May10 Nov08/May09 Nov07/May08 Nov06/May07 Note: Until November 2012, 12 titles were released each year to be used in both November and May sessions. From November 2012 on…
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Hi everyone so im taking the exam in may 2024 and i can't write my tok essay i find it really hard and my teacher is not really helping but i found people who are writting the essay for you and you just have to pay has someone ever done it? and do you this it's a good idea? ps: I'm doing question 1 (Is subjectivity overly celebrated in the arts but unfairly condemned in history? Discuss with reference to the arts and history.)
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I have been very confused as to what we need to put in the implications section for our ToK essay. Even my teacher and the evaluator who came in to speak to us seemed very confused. They said we are not allowed to bring up anything new in the conclusion as part of our implication section and at the same time want us to extend beyond the RLS in the claim/counterclaim. Does this seem right? Are there some Alumni that can chime in with what they did?
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Hi! I am an ib student who has just completed exams for the May 2023 cycle. I am one point below my offer for my university so am looking to remark and try to gain an extra point. I was considering TOK to remark but I am currently 4 points of an A which is a bit of a reach. Does anyone know how TOK is marked/remarked? I was looking at the breakdown of marks and it seems like the marks given for the TOK essay are doubled in the to give a final totalled mark out of 30, included TOK exhibition. Does this mean I would only need two marks extra in the TOK essay to gain 4 extra points?
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My tok exhibition is due next week and im still missing 2 objects. Im using the prompt of “how do values affect the production of knowledge”. Any help on how I can choose this objects?
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The prompt I choose is “Can new knowledge change established values or beliefs?” I have already spoken about Human sciences on my other objects, as well as religion, connotative language..... my mind is dry pls help me Extra info: Object 1: Darwin's book about species and evolution.--) religious beliefs are something difficult to change. + example of how some beliefs don't/only partially change with the introduction of a new knowledge Object 2: old cigarette advertisement. --) example of how some beliefs can change with new knowledge Object 3: SOMETHINGGGGGG
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Hello, I am currently working on a draft for my TOK exhibition and have already selected a prompt and objects and while writing have been thinking about these objects. I am worried that one of my objects, being a sleeve (package) of golf balls that I own and use is too generic, they are mine and relate to me personally through my hobby but I am still worried. What do you guys think? Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!
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Hi, So, I just found this web page and I sincerely need some advice. The idea is making the tok presentation about the anime NG Evangelion, as it is considered in the philosophical genre we think it could be great to analyze specially the characters and how entertainment can represent our reality but we don't know how to start or even if it is a good idea basing the presentation on that situation. Any suggestions(?
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I want to do My TOK exibition in light of my recent need for medicial marjuana using this question "Are some types of knowledge less open to interpretation than others?" can anybody give me some ideas or points to work with or even how to do this.
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I want to do My TOK exibition in light of my recent need for medicial marjuana using this question "Are some types of knowledge less open to interpretation than others?" can anybody give me some ideas or points to work with or even how to do this.
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Does anyone know how to do the Tok Essay if someone can please help me
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I admit to copying exactly 1 sentence from a website and it is showing on turnitin as well. Only 1 sentence but it was word to word copied. Like not even paraphrased. I did it word to word and didn't even cite it. I know I messed up but now it is submitted. Is my diploma gone?
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Hi, my prompt for my TOK exhibition is the 14 prompt Does some knowledge belong only to particular communities of knowers?: And for my objects I was thinking about looking into objects that its meanings cam only be understood by people in my culture and religion. My question is that can I have more than one thing represent one object. For example one of the objects I intent to use are veils(not the wedding veils but something similar) but for the object to make complete sense I need to make a comparison between two sizes of veils that have a significant difference in meaning. So I need to have both veils as one object, can I do that?
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Hello there. Noobie to the forums here. I've just finished putting together the final parts of my Theory of Knowledge essay, and have just realized a problem. I have no idea how to format the thing, and what information I should or should not give at the top of the paper. I know I should of course put my last name and page number as a header, but how about the essay title? Do I need to list the number of the prompt along with the prompt itself? Along those lines, do I need to include my full name, instructor's name, and submission date at the top left hand corner of the first page? Thank you for any aid you can give me!
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I'm confused as to what I'm supposed to do with my TOK Essay and searched up some sites that could help me with it. I came across this site called IB Mastery, a Tim Woods blog or something and it offers a TOK Essay Mastery Program. It only costs 14.99USD per month but I want to know if this is a sham or not. URL is attached below. https://checkout.newkajabi.com/offers/zR9YEFEU/checkout?checkout_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJvZmZlcl90b2tlbiI6InpSOVlFRkVVIiwic2l0ZV9wcm90b2NvbCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vIiwicGVyZm9ybV9sb2dvdXQiOnRydWUsImV4cCI6MTQ3NjYxOTkwNn0.VOtCRLnjEiNgGrHikX5LsGKS2XsNtHpYW8faSlSpgTs
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What are some studies or experiments that could not be held due to ethical considerations
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Hi, i have my TOK presentation coming up soon, and i decided to do mine on are video games useful for society? I know that video games can promote violence, and i also know it can help people improve eye to hand coordination, etc... The only problem is i don't know how i should outline mine. My teacher said i should start with a situation and then state my knowledge issue, but after that, i am lost. I don't know what should go next. Should i describe what we mean by violent, is this presentation biased, etc... Please help me.
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I have my final TOK presentation next week and I am struggling a bit on an outline(what to talk about) for my TOK presentation. My knowledge question is: "How can we trust ethical decisions?" - with an RLS on euthanasia Was wondering if anyone has ideas on how I could outline my presentation? What I could talk about, in terms of claims and counterclaims? Thanks x
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hey i have to submit my final tok exhibition tomorrow and i still haven't started it. the prompt ive chosen is either: "what constraints are there on the pursuit of knowledge" and i need 3 objects for this prompt. if you have any suggestions please let me know, you'd save my life by helping me. thank you so much:) also can anyone please send me samples of their exhibition commentaries, it would help a lot as my final exhibition is coming up and i really need help.
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hey, so I have to find the topic, main RLS and KQ for my TOK presentation, but I never had any idea what was going on in TOK classes 🙃 so I really need some help!! I thought I could do something connecetd with medical ethics, but since I don't want it to be too common and generic, preferably something else than designer babies/stem cell research, euthanasia and abortion. do you have any ideas what this could be? my other idea would be something connected with maths, like I thought of, very vaguely, maths in nature - so about Golden Ratio, Fibonacci Sequence, Sequences and Series for example in petals of flowers and so on. obviously I can consider something…
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For my TOK essay, I considered magic trick to be something deceptive but I really don't know what counterclaim should i use for this. If anyone could give me some ideas i will be really appreciate.
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How does the school or IBO carry out a plagiarism check for the TOK presentation?
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Hi guys! So TOK Exhibition is coming up and I chose the IA prompt stated in the title. Just to have a different opinion, how do I really answer this? What should the justification for this prompt should be like? What does the flow for my commentary should look like? I knew I chose a hard question and I also think I chose the wrong object for this also, which means that I cannot (I have no idea, honestly) link my object to the IA Prompt. Another thing: One of the object is a quote/small passage from a book. Does anyone have any idea how to link them? Sincerely, a struggling IB student
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How do I formulate a correct secondary question for TOK? I came up with like 1000 questions but all of them according to my teacher are primary- questions and not suitable for journals. PLease help😪
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Hello everyone, Me and my partner have around a week to finish our TOK presentation, but our teacher keeps saying that you KQ is not very "Tok"... Can you please help us with a moe Tok KQ??? This is our KQ: To what extent do teenagers have the knowledge to manage their privacy in order to achieve security in social media?
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As i previously mentioned, i forgot to quote and reference one sentence. .. will i be accused of plagiarism and not get my diploma?
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Hello there, I have a TOK presentation topic that might be good and is related to a RLS, however, I don’t know if the question is too vague. The RLS is finding the oldest material on earth with the usage of spectrometry and so how accurate are these findings in giving us how old is the material. However if it is not vague, I have no clue, should I include Knowledge claims that are only about spectrometry or can I talk about scientific instruments in general? Please let me know what you think.
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Hey! That seems like a totally random question, but it is urgently needed for my TOK essay. One of the RLSs I wanted to use is an advert which uses a statistic and I don't know which AOK it should be classified upon. Could it be the arts? (because it's like a visual advert) Or can it be classified as any of the AOKs? Would be really grateful for help!! Thank you!
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Hello! For my TOK Essay I chose this title "Statistics conceal as much as they reveal." I was thinking about approaching it from the AOKs of History and IKS. I am not very sure about what exactly I want to right or how I want to approach this title. Any thoughts, suggestions, links, or comments will be much appreciated. Anything will help. Thank you
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I have my TOK Presentation next week and I need to have a knowledge question today. My topic and RLS is about euthanesia, any suggestion for the main knowledge question ? Thanks a lot to everyone for reading and helping <3
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Hi y'all, I have a mini TOK exhibition for which I need to choose ONE object (from the attached list) that answers ONE of the 35 prompt questions (attached below). Any suggestions for which prompt or object I should choose or any advice for the same? Thanks in advance! TOK Exhibition Details.pdf 2.3 Creating the BQ2 exhibition (student handout 3) .pdf
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So my question is "to what extent are assumptions affected by intuition and language?". My RLS is Piliavin et al's subway study, and I was thinking of mention how our intuition can sometimes influence what we assume about others, as well that body language can also influence our first assumption as well. However, I feel like these things are too specific and I'm unsure how to continue. Please help!
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I need help with my knowledge question on government censorship. My question is: "What role does authority play in shaping shared knowledge?" Is it good enough?I will use the real-life example of China censorship. I'm also having trouble coming up with goods developments, counter-arguments, and rebuttals. Can anyone help me please? It will be very meaningful for me.
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Hey guys, I'm working on my tok presentation with my partner but we are really struggling with coming up with a proper KQ that focuses on knowledge. our RLS is the Netflix series "Conversations with a Killer: the Ted Bundy tapes". The show revolves around audio recordings of interviews with serial killer Ted Bundy and interviews with people that were associated with him (family, friends, and surviving victims). our initial KQ was "To what extent are one’s decisions influenced by emotions and memory?" and then it was updated to "To what extent can psychological classifications be used to rationalize unethical behavior driven by emotion?" but we were told to change it …
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I have to complete my final TOK presentations and I am interested in Artificial Intelligence. I have finalised my topic as Computational Creativity. But I am confused about my RQ. "To what extent can the art made by AI be considered creativity?" Is this doable?
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I'm writing a practice TOK essay and am struggling pretty badly with implications. Would someone be willing to explain how to draw implications or provide some sort of direction? Thanks in advance!
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Hello, I am currently doing a practice TK/PPD form about stem cells. I have chosen a case study as an RLS, is this a valid rls even if it was a made up case study created by a university? here is a link to it https://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/files/stem_cells_therapy.pdf I want to focus on how ethical vs scientific reasonings are established and link it to religion/faith and the scientific method. I am aware I must link it to a model of knowledge such as pragmatism. Here are some possible claims; scientific progress must be aligned with social need the interface of science and society includes ethical focus the use of stem cells ha…
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I wanted to do something about veganism , but can't figure out a proper KQ for the topic , can someone give me some rough ideas for good KQ's?
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Hey guys! I am having trouble fitting my entire tok presentation in only 500 words in the tok form. Any recommendation on how to reduce word count or how to make it fit that little box they give us? And does the word count really matter? Thank you!
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Hi, So I got a knowledge question: How do emotions help or hinder our understanding of the correlation? But don't know for what to use for my rls!!! help!
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Hello can anyone let me know if this would be a suitable question for TOK presentation? "To what extent are doctors responsible for patients becoming dependent on their Prescription medication?" I was thinking emotion, reason and natural sciences for WOK. And using Ant McPartlin as a RLS. Or maybe "to what extent does social media influence the way we exercise?" I think many WOK would apply here. I am so confused by the whole TOK presentation and worrying about so much. Once I get a question I am sure I will be ok, just really appreciate any help. I have no teacher as I am in lock down! Thank you all
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Hey guys Me and my partner is doing a presentation on racism and was wondering if the knowledge issue of perception would be a good idea. What we were thinking of doing was first start off with showing the class 3 power point slides, each showing a yellow, white and black person. Then I will blind fold them and let them tell me which race I just showed onto the screen. This will first draw the attention of the class and raise the issue that racism would have not existed if we had no sight. Then me and my partner don't know how we can move on from there and was wondering if you guys would help us plan what we should bring up in our presentation. Thanks loads! noah and cl…
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Hello Would someone be able to give me guidance if this a good TOK KQ: Should we trust international NGOs? Basically for my presentation, I'm interested in challenging the blind assumption that International NGOs are always doing good work (e.g. Amnesty International, Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, etc.) Any guidance will be much appreciated!
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Well its that time of year again, and TOK classes everywhere are working on the dreaded TOK presentation. The very purpose of the TOK presentation has been mocked by the long list of botched presentations (including but not limited to: poor raps, random video clips, insufficient, unprepared rambling, and interpretive dance... yes, it happens), but enough about those. I want to hear about the great TOK presentations that really just made you think about something in a way you haven't before. So far, my favorite TOK topic was one which compared Religiosity and the Gross Domestic Product of nations. They compared the cultures and how different cultures value different thin…
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HI GUYS, i was wondering if someone could guide me about implications for the TOK prescribed tittle “Given that every theory has its limitations, we need to retain a multiplicity of theories to understand the world.” Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. THANKS!
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For either TOK essay or presentation there's a sites that gives you a topic for the presentation, and a site which gives a full map for the Tok essay that includes claim, counter-claim, etc. The question is using these things in your work does it count as plagiarism even if it was created for you to use it?
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