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For my ToK presentation, I have come up with a fairly good issue relating to feminism and whether it is or ever has been important. But I'm still having problems coming up with a really good Knowledge Issue. Here are some ideas: To what extent to knowledge sources (such as the media) shape our appreciation and understanding of feminism? How is our understanding of feminism shaped by history? How does our understanding of history shape our perception of modern-day feminism? Please give any improvements or suggestions for new ones!! Any comments welcome
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For my TOK presentation, I have decided to investigate 'untranslatable' words, i.e. non-english words that do not have any concise equivalent in English. An example is mamihlapinatapai (from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego), which means "that moment or feeling when two people both want to initiate something but neither wants to be the one to start it". Another interesting example is drachenfutter (German), which is used to refer specifically to a gift that a husband/boyfriend uses to placate an angry wife/girlfriend - as a sort of peace offering. I was wondering why certain experiences are so convenient to express in some languages and more troublesome in others,…
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For a TOK knowledge issue, my partner and I have a real life situation regarding CCTV and security in schools. We have a research question/topic of: Is the presence of surveillance cameras in schools justified? We are currently discussing potential knowledge issues but need some input. Does anyone have any ideas for a potential general knowledge issue regarding technology and/or privacy?? Thanks
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What role should the human sciences play in justifying forced marriages? What do you guys think of this? What points should I talk about? IS this a good topic?
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Guys, i need help ASAP please. my TOK presentation is tomorrow and i have no idea what i am doing? I want to do smn about what is right and what is wrong? how can i improve on it? what can i talk about???
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To what extent can scientist be held morally responsible for the consequences of their inventions and discoveries? i need your help finding sub knowledge issues being linked to areas and ways of knowing.
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Hello, I need to do a practice IB TOK presentation (only 5 minutes) and really am stuck. I have a KC (someone saying: "You don't need to know anything, you can just google it!") but can’t come up with a good KI. Please help me! Thanks!
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So I have to do my TOK presentation and I have no idea where to start. My teacher is rubbish at TOK and I am clueless as to how to touch the topic. I was thinking of taking a real life situation of a debate Wendy Wright and Richard Dawkins on Creationism vs. Evolution( obviously evolution wins, duh) and to extract a knowledge issue as follows: How does a belief in sth affect our reasoning? OR How does religious belief affect our reasoning? Which one of the two is better,if it is good at all? What tips would you give me?
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Hey guys, I'm an amateur screenwriter. Currently, I'm trying to outline a murder mystery set at a very expensive private catholic school in Rome. I've got a character who needs to do a TOK oral presentation. However I, as a writer, need a topic for him to do. He's got an eye on going into politics after he graduates and he's native Italian. Any ideas?
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I understand that faith can be a Way of Knowing and can be applied to religion and science, but can Religion be a Way of Knowing?
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Okay so my topic is on Children of Interfaith Marriages in specific to what extent are they more globally aware/independant/openminded than children of Monofaith. I'm really confused with what my claims and counterclaims could be, and what evidence i could use to support my claims?
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Hi guys, i was thinking of doing my TOK presentation on the perception of beauty, but don't have a clear Knowledge issue or RLS in mind. What points could i talk about in the presentation? Do I have to take into consideration AOK as well as WOK? I can't really think of a AOK which would relate to my topic.. Is my topic good enough? Do you have any other suggestions? Any help/tips/advice is appreciated thanks!
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The Theory of Knowledge course is soon to be updated to include Faith as a fifth Way of Knowing, I have heard. I think this may have been one of the May 2013 essay titles, but apparently the IB are including it (heard from a teacher at my school who is a ToK teacher and examiner, and my old philosophy teacher) I was wondering what others thought of it. In my opinion, it is a stupid idea. The whole point of Faith is that it is not Knowledge, but a blind belief and devotion towards something without actually having proof or certainty of it (eg God) whereas knowledge is meant to be defined as something known to be true based on evidence. How can faith be a Way of 'KNOWING' i…
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Hey everybody! I had a question for ToK but I need help finding a specific KI and maybe a RLS. I wanted to something along the lines of: "To what extent can we rely on personal memory?" at the end I could add something like "to recount historical events" or "crimes" or something. Any other ideas or how it could work? My teacher is fighting with me about how I just have to do the Boston Marathon but I want to do something more fun... Thanks in advance! I am Therefore IB Therefore I stress Therefore I BS
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Hi, i've chosen number 4 of the November 2013 essay topics which is: 4. "Knowledge gives us a sense of who we are." To what extent is this true in the human sciencesand one other area of knowledge? the other AOK im thinking of doing is History. But im not sure on how to start the essay as well as how to research about it. Any pointers will be much appreciated.
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Alright so I have to fill in my ToK booklet and here's a list of things I need: -Real life situation: Egypt's tahrir square events? -Main knowledge issue: How do we know if Social Media is the main reason behind the Arab Spring (or something along those lines) -Sub knowledge issues: Use of censorship (prevention of revolutions), Revolutions happened before social media, How effective is it as a catalyst to the process (homogeneous or heterogeneous? Chem joke...) Ways of knowing and how they're related? History, language, (HELP!) Areas of knowledge Personal examples and stuff Help Help me Or I could start with a broader topic and get specific
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Our next ToK presentation is on the frameworks of Kuhn and Popper and whether they can be applied in other Areas of Knowledge. We're pretty confused about their frameworks in the first place, and we were wondering if anyone had any suggestions or good resources they could point us to? Thanks guys (:
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Hi, I am doing my final TOK presentation on cloning. We are a group of three people and the other two are doing their parts on ethics and natural sciences. I am supposed to talk about the ways of knowing but I don't really know what to talk about for language and emotion. Reason and perception are pretty easy in this case but I would really appreciate it if somebody would help me with emotion and language. Thanks, Jule
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So its been about a semester and I'm still not quite sure what a knowledge issue is... I've realized a lot of the TOK presentation topics start with "How" or "To what extent..." I wanted to do something on Arranged Marriages (it's relative to me because I'm Indian and some of my family members have their marriages arranged). The problem is I'm not sure HOW to make this into a knowledge issue... But if I were to write this as a knowledge issue is would be something like, "How can we know that arranged marriages are successful?" Something to do with Love Marriage vs Arranged Marriage...because there has been a debate about how arranged marriages can be successful, while man…
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I need help with my ToK presentation but the problem is that... i have no idea how to start! The Question is: All good people write good rules and laws? I need to address 1. Determine why it would be considered a knowledge Issue. 2. Determine what area of knowledge and way of knowing it explores with some examples to justify my answer. 3. Determine the positive and negative sides. thank you in advance.
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Hi all, I've decided to use the recent discovery that Snapchat photos are saved secretly on one's phone/computer as my RLS for my ToK Pres. I'm crammed for time and I need a good KI; something to do with ethics/privacy/company's morals etc. Could someone help me? Thanks!
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Hi guys, please can i have some help. I have chosen a real life situation, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22455559. I came up with the idea of globalisation 'affecting' cultural individuality and i was going to focus on that, but it doesn't sound like a "Knowledge Issue" so i have gone back to the drawing board and found a issue about the definition of "culture" but that wont work because all i need is a dictionary. Please can people help me and give me ideas? I don't want to be told answers but i want to have some food for thought so it is actually me doing work on researching topic. Any help appreciated Tony
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My TOK presentation is coming up soon, and I was wondering whether or not my KI is good enough for TOK standards or if it isn't related to knowledge enough. To what extent does communications and easy-access information via the Internet lead to the homogenization of culture? I have the impression it's too related to the real life situation and isn't directly relating knowledge. If that is the case, who would you suggest developing it? Thanks.
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Hey guys I'm dying here My TOK Topic is due tomorrow and I am so insecure about my knowledge issue. This is my first time doing this TOK presentation, so I'm a newbie My real life issue is about the implementation of moral and national education into the Hong Kong curriculum, which is something greatly opposed in Hong Kong, since people think its a form of propaganda by China, while some people think that it is justified cos we need to know more about our country. So my proposed knowledge issue would be either 1. How justified is the implementation of Moral and national education? 2. How do we know if the moral and national education should be implemented in Hong Kong? W…
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Hello, I'm having my real tok presentation next week and i'm working on the linkage between maths and art. I discuss about different methodologies to draw an art piece such as maths (goldent ratio/reason) used by Leonardo and emotion used by Picasso. My knowledge issue is: 'To what extent does Mathematics help to judge the beauty of an artpiece?". Does it sound alright? I feel like i need to fix the wording, I did this for my practice and my teacher said i missed the idea of 'implications in related areas' in criteria 4. Can you guys give my some ideas please? Thanks in advance.
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i am doing my presentation on cannibalism and i dont know what i have got myself into? i have no idea where i am starting from? i want to talk about what is right and what is wrong? my real life experience is my sister and my reaction being different to THE Andes Plane Crash? i dont know what to do? please smn help me...
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So my knowledge issue is "To what extent should public safety be prioritized over personal liberties?" and "Where is the line between protecting the society, and preserving civil liberties?" My original RLS was the 'civil rights infringements' on the Boston Bomber suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, where the US law enforcement did not read him his Miranda rights, classifying him as an enemy combatant. The only problem is that they did end up reading him his rights, and theres certain errors in my conclusion of the RLS, so I want to change it. I have a few other RLS that I came up with additionally, such as: a) US gun control (specifically the 6 year old boy that was given a gun…
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I want to do my presentation on polygamy, or different cultural views on marriage, but I am having trouble choosing a knowledge issue that I can relate to the four ways of knowing. Any help would be greatly appreciated as my presentation date is scarily close.
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I have my TOK presentation next term, but I need to give the planning by this week, and I still have a few things I am unsure about. 1. Is it better to work individually or as a group? (if as individual, won't we have less time to explain all the different perspectives?) 2. my (maybe ex) group wanted to do about the rape cases, and the KI being to what extent does government policies protect the life and individuality of citizens?
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Okay so I am doing my first TOK IA next week and I was just wondering what everyone thought about my knowledge issue?... Who are we to say if it is ethical for a person to take their own life? This stems from my real life situation of a man wanting to take his own life but his physical handicap did not allow him to do so, so he asked for help in his suicide from a doctor but all the courts said that he wasn't allowed to do that. my question is.. is this a good question to explore? and also, is it worded alright? so it's not too vague but it's not too specific? thank you!!
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Hi all! I'm trying to prepare my ToK presentation, but I'm having problems with how it should all go. We never practiced extracting and dealing with KIs, so it's all kind of new to me. I narrowed all the options I thought of to two: Using this video as my real life situation: http://youtu.be/-KQb3Mx2WMw (KIs I extracted: To what extent do emotions overpower teenagers' reason in decision making? or to what extent can scientific knowledge give us an understanding of human nature?) Using teenagers' obsession with "Illuminati" and their alleged subliminal messages in popular music as my real life situation and exploring conspiracy theories; To what extent do sense perception…
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Hi all! I'm in the process of planning my ToK presentation, my first thoughts were doing my presentation about defining beauty; it sounded original since we never discussed it in class. After research, it feels like it has been overused and I thought of changing my topic. I had the idea of what makes a hero, but I'm not sure how far I can go with that. I also tried extracting KIs from Doctor Who (A Christmas Carol, and The Doctor's Wife), but couldn't. Do you think I'm on the right track? Are any of the two topics accurate, if so which should I use? Thank you!
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Hi everyone! I'm having my tok presentation in 2 weeks and I'm lost! My topic is about the China's one child policy and the impacts of this policy... but I don't know what KIs I should go with? Does anyone can help me out? What should I avoid, or absolutely talk about? Thanks guys! I appreciate it.
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We're about to do our first practice presentation in TOK, and I came up with this example and wanted to hear your opinions on it. Is it relevant enough? Specific enough? Supportive of my knowledge issue enough? This is my knowledge issue: To what extent does the continuous evolution of scientific knowledge suggest that at any one point in time it is insufficient? •Water is boiled when heated.•A pot full of water is set to low heat without a lid. Will take a long time•Put the pot of water on medium heat with a lid half on, water will take less time to boil.•Put the pot of water on high heat with the lid completely covering the pot, water will boil quickest. •By conti…
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Spending most of yesterday, I have found various articles and have chosen one, have created discussion questions as well, but I am not too sure if it covers mathematics, or contains other areas of knowledge as well. Because my teacher said when we create knowledge issues, it should cover as many areas of knowledge as possible. I don't think it covers much of anything at all. Any advice or pointers? http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/26/motivation-not-iq-matters-most-for-learning-new-math-skills/ There is also this site, but I don't know if it'll be good for discussion either: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/opinion/when-judges-cant-do-math-justice-suffers.html?ref=math…
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I am doing my real life situation on: Bullying towards a kid named Jamey leading to his suicide. Then my knowledge issue is going to be: To what extent are we responsible for how our actions affect others? I will define responsible, and then move on to AoK like human sciences, ethics, and history. (or if they are any better ones please tell me) BUT I am lost on what to do after this, I am having a hard time finding topics under each AoK. Can anyone help me? I am just confused overall how to do it. I've looked under many YouTube videos and they don't help much either.
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For my ToK presentation, I have decided to explore the question above ^^^ My real life situation will most likely be a court case since there are other ways of knowing involved: Reason: via evidence, answer from witness Language: how lawyers aim to persuade (yet this evokes emotion) Perception: as the jury is made up of different people with different personalities However, I'm not sure whether this would be TOO FOCUSED on my real life situation instead of the question itself & I'm not quite sure how to best present my idea & structure my presentation... && are there any situations where emotions do NOT have a role in helping us make decisions?
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I hav my practice TOK presentation soon and i need some help making a good knowledge issue. My presentation is on video game violence and how it might affect some kids minds when they get older and make them murderers or something. This is what i have so far as my knowledge issue, to what extent can we distinguish between what our reality and our virtual reality? Ok this isnt a knowledge issue its just a base line. Can someone help me make it a good knowledge issue? Thanks for any help on the presentation or my knowledge issue
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Hi guys, I am doing TOK presentation next 2 weeks but I feel a little bit confused how to structure a presentation. However, first of all, can you all please take a look at my real life issue and knowledge issue that I found out, then give me some feed back? I really appreciate that. Here is my starting point: the formation of the earth/ the creation of the earth (still tentative about this real life issue) Maybe I should think of something else. Thanks
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Hey guys, I'm doing Q3 on November 2013's TOK titles "Every attempt to know the world rests on a set of assumptions that cannot be tested." Examine this proposition in relation to two AOKS. I'm thinking of using Psych and Chemistry as my two AOKs, but I have no idea how to structure this essay. Any advice? Help?
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Hey, I am starting my essay for my TOK essay. I have chosen to do prescribed topic #2: "Technology both enables us to produce knowledge and limits the knowledge is produced." Discuss with reference to two areas of Knowledge. I have chosen to use the two areas of knowledge: History and Natural sciences . I have written down my introduction where I have defined the key terms and set the parameters for the essay but I am having trouble coming up with ideas for my main body paragraphs, any suggestions/ideas. Thanks!
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I could not find anything regarding linking ideas in the context of TOK. What are linking ideas in TOK?
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OK so I have been thinking about what to do for my presentation and I thought since I like to watch a lot of Asian dramas I might be able to do something with it. Like, I noticed that many of the dramas portrayed women as weaker and less than the men and the women can never make a decision and are always crying and basically the damsel in distress. The men are always portrayed as the better, stronger and controlling. So, I have been trying to think of a question or topic that I can connect this to. Please help! Thanks
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Hi, My TOK presentation is coming up soon and I still need a topic. Our TOK teacher taught a lot of metaphysics this year (do we exist? what is real?) Since I like doing magic tricks, I want to try do a presentation related to magic tricks. All I can think of right now is showing the class a card, saying that they know what the card is (through sense perception), and transforming the card into another card. However, I don't have a knowledge issue yet. Knowledge issues have to be worded like "How do we know ________?", right? Can someone give me some ideas for a possible knowledge issue?
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