General Idea

[King112]

Hey, I haven't really had much in my TOK class, because all our teacher makes us do is watch videos and write reflections about what we saw.

I am really confused because i am not sure what exactly knowledge questions and areas of knowledge are. Our teacher had never mentioned them, and was like write a 700 word essay. I totally wrote bulll****, but thats another issue.  Also, I am superly confused about how the essay and presentation bits work. Finally, what exactly are ways of knowing? Our teacher doesnt tell us anything.

I have zero idea about TOK, so please let me know in as much depth as you possibly can.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Emmi]

Start with the stickied posts at the top of the TOK forum:

 

Presentation: http://www.ibsurvival.com/topic/13822-tok-presentation-official-guide/

Essay: http://www.ibsurvival.com/topic/17277-tok-essay-official-guide/

General TOK: http://www.ibsurvival.com/topic/290-introduction-to-tok-bits-of-tok-wisdom-advice/

 

Some of the info might be outdated (like what score is an A, a B, etc or how many marks is the essay out of) but the general advice still applies.

[ShootingStar16]

For our TOK classes, we have discussions and then reflect on a specific topic as blog entries. If you want a general idea, I could send you a URL to my TOK blog. The ways of knowing are sense perception, intuition, imagination, faith, reason, memory, emotion and language. We looked how subjective/objective these categories were and whether or not different types of knowledge had different types of value. We also watched a video of Allegory of the Cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM and compared the 'cave' to our world today. Furthermore, we challenged the use of reason in the pursuit for truth through watching the Monty Hall Problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlc7peGlGg. Hope this helps! 

[King112]

Thanks a lot, cleared up all my doubts.