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In my TOK essay I am using three AoKs although the question asks for two; however, two of them (econ and psychology) are in human sciences, is this ok?
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Hey i was wondering if there is anyone out there to help me with my TOK essay. Mt draft sucks and i have no idea how to make it better. can anyone take pity on a fellow suffering IB student and read/review my essay? Thanks TOK Essay DRAFT.docx
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I'm currently thinking of basing my presentation on Ethics and apparently it's not recommended to do anything with ethics. At this point, I'm completely lost about what I'm supposed to do...
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To what extent should we sacrifice our freedom for security?
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Hey guys, So I chose the third prompt for my TOK essay (does it matter that your personal circumstances impact how seriously your knowledge is taken, I say yes it does) and I was going to use Ethics (from there go in to Sense Perception and Reason), Human Sciences (go into Philosophy and maybe some law). For my counter-claim I planned to say that no, it doesn't matter because only knowledgeable people should speak about knowledge (we go to historians as credible sources for History, I wouldn't go to my chorus teacher for a math problem or my math teacher for help singing a song). I'm not really sure how to start or format this, or how I can bring a real-life s…
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Hi guys, so its been 4 months since year 2 of IB has started and we've all started on our IA first drafts and submitted our EEs and working on CAS and stuff but... our TOK teacher hasn't introduced us to the tok titles of this year, showed us how to do it and hasn't initiated any conversations about it. He's also not the best teacher so I dont rlly expect a lot of help from his side. My EE is real **** so I'm kind of relying on my tok essay to at least lift up my grades but I've heard that tok essays are rlly hard and u need to get as philosophical as u can. So are we in trouble or can we manage with just reading through some really good samples and winging it someho…
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Is it possible to have "shared" accepted knowledge of beauty in the arts? To what extent does it have to be accepted by the community to be "shared" knowledge?
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Hi! So i am super worried about my EE and the teacher at my school have already discussed some options with me. I looked at sample EE's from student of the previous year and it seems like world religion is the simplest and most straightforward one. I am not so sure what to do for it though because i don't know much about all religions and mainly know about Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. I was thinking to do a comparison of certain aspect between Hinduism and Buddhism but i can't find a lot of research papers online on it which means i don't have good references for it. If you have any ideas or suggestions on world religion EE's or just EE's in general, that would …
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Hi, I'm writing my TOK essay and I was curious to know if it's okay to use the same area of knowledge for my knowledge questions twice? I want to use law and psychology as examples but I realised they're both human sciences. Would this be a problem? Thanks!
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Hello! I'll be doing my TOK OP soon and my teachers aren't very helpful.. so I was wondering if I could show you all my brainstorm here and if you guys could deduce if it is doable? To what extent is language a reliable way of knowing in the natural sciences? My RLS is: The Father of Genetics, Gregor Mendel, in 1865 presented his results in German, the language of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of which he was a citizen living in Brun now in the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, his work was not noticed by the rest of the world until it was rediscovered by American researchers in the early 1900s. Much to their credit, they attributed the discovery of Mendel's La…
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SO I have my presentation done and all. For each development I have rls, KQ, and all the TOKKY stuff however I only have two elopement that is roughly 8 minutes I obviously need to wrap at this point with a conclusion. Is 2 Developments ok??? I am doing an indVIDUAL.
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I chose what seemed like the easiest TOK Essay topic, but its so difficult!!! Could you please help me with an outline as to how to approach the topic 6? Im so lost! somebody please helpp Present Knowledge is wholly dependant on past knowledge. Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge.
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Can someone please explain to me the TOK presentation structure that was prepared by Tim Woods (http://www.timwoods.org/2013/09/13/how-to-structure-a-theory-of-knowledge-presentation/)? Also, please clarify some of my doubts:- 1) Should the developments be separated according to AOK's (Ex:-Development 1=Natural sciences, Development 2=Human Sciences, Development 3=History)? 2) Should the claims and counter-claims be general statements or RLS related. For example, should a claim be 'Technology is changing our way of life' (general) or 'Iphone's are changing our way of life'? 3) Should the claims and counter-claims be about two completely different situations…
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Hi everyone...my oral topic is "On what basis can we judge insanity?" which links to the question "can we call psychology a science?". As there is no IB psychology in my school,can anyone who's taking Psychology give me an useful link (especially an IBO one) where I could find more information about my topic?
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So we have been given a quote in class and we have to make a short essay discussing it with a claim and counter claim,I am new to TOK and have been finding it really difficult,I need some knowledge questions from this quote The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values." - Burroughs,draft is due on tuesday so please help,thanks!
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Hi! My TOK presentation is about To what extent is memory a reliable source of knowledge? I need to decide on claims, and counter claims, which I am having trouble with. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, Thanks
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my essay question is Present knowledge is wholly dependent on past knowledge.” Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. I dont know which AOK to choose and if History would be too cliche to use.
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What is the definition of a knowledge issue? Do you have examples?
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Hi guys, im doing my Tok presentation based on the execution of schizophrenic people who were murderers( in pakistan ) and would like to elaborate on this, like to what extent is it appropriate to execute people who are suffering from schizophrenia. side note-the Supreme Court in Pakistan states that schizophrenia is not a mental disorder and hence have put many people on the death row who are suffering from schizophrenia. Im struggling on forming my KQ and understanding which AOK's and WOK's would go with this, It would mean a lot if someone could help me forming my kq and choosing the aoks and woks https://www.justiceinitiative.org/voices/pakistan-s…
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Hi, I am having a lot of trouble when it comes to choosing my real life situatuion. I don´t even know how real the real life situaution has to be. Allow me to explain, my teacher told us that it has to be real, as in it can happen in real life, but that doesn´t mean it IS really happening. The more I try to explain it it gets even more confusing, what I am trying to say is that I don´t know whether the real life situation has to be an example of something that actually exists or if it can be about a situation the could hypothetically happen. Because I want my RLS to be related to memory and how memory changes with time, and how little details start to blur and also how we…
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Hello World! I'm new in this forum so if I do something wrong please keep in mind that I'm still not familiar with this type of communication. My name is Jason and I'm an IB student from Germany. At the moment I am working on my TOK presentation which I need to hand in on next Wednesday. I'm still unsure with my KQ and RLS and my teacher is not willing to help me with anything. His response to almost every question: "The IB requires me to let you do the work on your own and it would be an unfair advantage to get any help from him". This is the first year of the IB-Diploma and since no teacher has worked with the materials before I'm lost and don't know what to d…
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Hey! I'm really trying to do my Tok presentation, but I'm struggling with finding a good KQ. At first I was interested in the ethical issue that is caused by the creation of "saviour siblings" (RLS Adam Nash) , but I thought that it might be to narrow for a KQ so I tried to find something more general and I came up with this: "to what extent does our emotion influence our ethical judgement" but I was wondering if it was now not focused enough on my RLS, so too general. Let me know what you think! Also, I know that we have to do around two developments, but, do we have to come up with different knowledge questions for each development? for example, f…
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I am planning to do my ToK presentation on legal punishments (or authoritative decisions not to sound cliche) with a rape case as my central RLS. The first connotation that is attached to rape cases is unethical and negative. People often tend to formulate their claims about rape cases in a way that uses only emotion as a factor in understanding a rape case. Several other factors that aid for a reasonable point of view are neglected which develops a bias and flawed decision in the community. We must incorporate factors such as the rapists socio-cultural background, the traditions they were brought up in and the lack of education they received to develop a holistic and wel…
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kq: to what extend does intuition affect ones perception of art
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The quote is "doubt makes knowledge grow" and they ask me to relate this with 2 areas of knowledge. Any ideas or suggestions? thanks
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Hi guys! We need big helps in developing our KQ. For our TOK presentation, we want to use a real life situation as the story of "Theranos--Elizabeth Holmes deception". Holmes wanted to invent a company for cheap blood testing machines. Theranos worth nearly $10 billions and Holmes became the youngest, self-made, female billionaire. However, it was a massive fraud. Theranos deception hoodwinked gullible investors and endangered unsuspecting patients. We are struggling to find a good Knowledge Question and structuring our presentation. In our presentation, we want to talk about the how ethics plays a role in different AOKs. For example, how science is restricted b…
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If anybody needs help with their ToK essay or presentation, contact me.
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Hi. My TOK presentation is next week and i cant find any interesting topics to do. Do you have any suggestions that are interesting?
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My TOK presentation is in less than a week's time but I'm struggling so much, and my teacher is reluctant to give feedback. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to provide some feedback (I'll email it) Thanks in advance!
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I need ideas on how to respond to this question... To what extent does the methodology of the natural sciences act as a corrective to the errors that arise in personal knowledge? we have to use all these analysis in our essays: >Thinking fast and slow (intuition/reason) >The limitations of other Ways of Knowwing (WoK) (sense perception, memory, language, reason, etc...) >Evidence from Climate Change Debate (covered in your Socratic Dialog) >Integration of WoKs into a method (not isolation) >Scientific Method >Kuhn/Popper (Confirmation Bias, Falsification, Paradigms) >Article: Evaluating Scientific Theories (15 …
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So I've got my presentation due soon, and I have started working on it, but I keep second-guessing it, and I'm not sure if my research question is good 😣. This is it - 'To what extent do the Arts influence our understanding of morality/right+wrong?' The RLS is about violence in video he's and if they can cause real life violence. Any advice is really appreciated 😣
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Hello folks , Well i just joined this site as i was having a little trouble with my TOK presentations which is sometime next week , i have kind of decided what kind of topic i want to do , which is basically honour killings though i am having a little trouble with exactly forming the knowledge issue question . It would be nice if someone could help me out with that . T Thanks
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So I've got my topic and all of the necessary parts (knowledge question, WoK, AoK, knowledge framework, etc.), but I have no idea where to start with the actual presentation structure. Do I start with the RLS and what it is? I feel like that would be too much in the content and not enough in the knowledge of the content, if that makes sense. (But on the other hand I wouldn't know where to put the RLS otherwise). How should I develop the knowledge claims? (Obviously start with claim then counterclaim, but do I start with WoK and AoK or work them into the knowledge framework and just focus on the ones I've chosen - methodology and historical development). Last question, wha…
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how can emotion and lanuage affect shared knowlege? also like 0n different cultures. I also need to look at the indigenous knowledge side 2. Some one please help me in detail. my tok teach r dislikes me and she would never help me bc i'm bad at tok? ugh
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So I'm doing my ToK presentation in a week and I'm having a lot of trouble coming up with claims and counterclaims since we were never really taught how to make them in class. My knowledge question is: How can emotion influence decisions made by society and is it more effective than reason? My AoKs are the arts and Human Sciences and WoKs are Emotion and Reason. My main RLS is the Manchester Bombing and I am talking about how people made the decision to donate a large sum of money to the victims and families of this event and I have 2 sub RLS. One being the burning of Notre Dame cathedral and how it took such little time to raise that much money and the o…
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I’m doing my TOK Presentation on robots and my knowledge question is who decides what’s ethical? I’m so confused on where to proceed, how do I incorporate areas of knowledge and ways of knowing? Please help, I’m stressing out so much and I’m breaking out from stress.
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I want to know some real-life situation for this title
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Howdy, fellow IB kids I'm really struggling to find a RLS for my TOK presentation. I had to come up with a knowledge question really suddenly and it is "To what extent does one have the responsibility to share (substantial) personal knowledge?" My main idea for the RLS is to find a case where authorities, scientist have kept a secret from the public that could potentially be really important. Right now my only RLS idea is from the show "The 100" where they are all up on a space ship or something and an engineer finds out that the oxygen will soon run out. When he tells the president, he doesn't allow him to share the discovery to others and kills him to …
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Does anyone have any advice for TOK Presentations??? My teacher just gave us the rubric and instructions and wants it done in 2 weeks. I'm thinking of doing something about depression, but I don't know how to make it relate back to TOK stuff. I can talk about subjects perfectly fine, but I can't make it relate to TOK. Thanks!
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hi, So I have my TOK presentation coming up and this is what I have so far. But I am not sure how good it is and wanted someone's opinion. This is my RLS: Dr. Andrew Wakefield falsely found a correlation between MMR vaccines and the causation of autism. This influenced anti-vaxxers, as they began to believe that they were right in their reasoning for not vaccinating their children. As a consequence, from this the measles broke out again in the US. (Claim: MMR vaccines cause autism) His study was based on 12 children – 8 reported to developed autism after receiving the vaccine and that the symptoms began to appear to weeks after then my KQ is: To what exte…
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I'm a non-IB student who somehow ended up in TOK for my last year, and now we're starting our TOK essays and presentations. Im pretty awful at think up KQ's and other topics but my interest recently piqued when our teacher gave an example of a presentation that used the RLS of men choosing certain urinals, or one in which a student question whether or not mayonnaise really is an instrument. With those in mind, I'm not excited to write a paper and talk ad nauseam for something as silly and asinine such as that, and I think it'll be reliving as most everyone else I know is doing more "serious" topics. However, even with this in mind I'm still struggling to …
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Hey, So my school is keen on me doing the tok presentation with a peer and well i dont really want to. they are kind of scaring me like i might not pass because i am doing it alone and what not. So, i dont really know. should i do it with a peer or doing alone is fine. And another question. Is it fine if my claims and counter claims branch out from one real life situation? or do i need a different real life situation for claim and counter claim? Thanks!
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hi for my tok presentation I've chosen an rls related to the French Islamophobia. it talks about the French far-right is this a good rls and should my AOK be ethics or human sciences for this?
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So our Tok teacher (even after Tok essay and presentation) forces us to come to tok class @7am and makes us do assignments + projects. Our current project is trying to come up with criteria for WoK and come up with a brand new WoK that's NOT part of the existing 8. Any help would be appreciated as to help with coming up with ideas to a criteria/new WoK.
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Hello, Right now we are working on creating our final TOK presentations and I am very stuck.. For my last presentation I talked a lot about ethics and how that can effect our judgement, I have done my presentations around ethics and emotion and I feel that I'm pretty strong in that AOK and WOK.. My starter KQ: How can a lack of knowledge justify unethical conduct? What can I fix and why? What kind of RLS can I use for this type of question? Thank you.
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I didn't know where to put this question but it's for my TOK essay so I thought this would be the most appropriate. I need to cite my psychology IA for my TOK essay as it is one of my RLS for the TOK essay but I also know that the IB requires everything to be anonymised. I'm unsure of what I'm supposed to put into the in-text citation and the complete citation in the works cited page. I don't want to be flagged for plagiarism but I also don't want to go against any of the rules of the IB regarding anonymity. Does anyone know how to cite myself without using my name in neither the text nor the works cited page? My ib coordinator doesn't have the answer to this.
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I don't really know how to create a good KQ with this information.. Please help me! RLS: "Jilly Juice" - A juice that is created by Jillian Epperly, claims that it can cure "Candida" the "root "of all diseases. It's created with very dangerous amounts of salt and cabbage, and many people believed that it cured them of their disease. Many also claimed that it worsened their condition. According to doctors and health specialists, when consumed everyday, it can kill you; but her followers believe otherwise and continue consuming the juice. source: https://www.newsweek.com/jillian-mai-thi-epperly-claims-cabbage-juice-cures-autism-homosexuality-and-909737 AOK: …
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I am going to perform a TOK presentation and decided it would concern the censorship of offensive language or curse words. My focus is going to be on how 'the freedom of art" and the ethical issues, meaning the freedom to express oneself and to protect (ex. underaged people). Meaning it will mainly concern censorship (language) in art. However I am confused as to how to formulate my KQ. Which one of the following knowledge questions should be more appropriate to the TOK Presentation: To what extent is art censorship justified by the government? To what extent should the government censor television? To what extent is censorship in television industry…
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Hey, so we are doing our TOK presentation on how social media bias and society affect one's perception of beauty. We are thinking of giving examples of extreme cases of anorexia, barbie dolls being the international standard of beauty and how only recently they started to change their appearance and involving 2 areas of knowledge, though we have only though of 1 AOK so far: natural sciences. Could you maybe help us in formulating our Knowledge Question/Issue and area of knowledge? We were thinking of something among the lines of: To what extent does sense perception and imagination affect people's perception of beauty in regards to natural sciences and [blank]? …
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Hi, for the TOK May 2019 essays, I chose title 2 which is “The production of knowledge is always a collaborative task and never solely a product of the individual” I came up with 3 KQ but I don't know which one to choose Does the production of knowledge always depend on the framework of shared knowledge and never solely on personal knowledge? How does the production of knowledge always rely on shared knowledge and never on personal knowledge? To what extent is shared knowledge and personal knowledge closely linked in terms of production of knowledge? The conclusion I am aiming for is that Both depend on each other to produce knowledge.
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