EXPLORING INTERNATIONAL MINDEDNESS

http://www.ibo.org/ibaem/conferences/documents/Whatdoesitmeantobeinternationally-minded-PEllis.pdf

IB mission and strategy

IB mission and strategy

TOK Diploma Programme curriculum, core requirements

Diploma Programme curriculum, core requirements

Oskar Schindler - Part 1 - Nazi Party in Krakow Poland, A&E Biography

IB World Student Conferences JULY 2012 - SPAIN and CANADA

 A great opportunity for students, please click on the IBO link below for more information.

Skills and relationships that will last a lifetime

• Segovia, Spain, 2–6 July 2012
• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 23–27 July 2012

The International Baccalaureate (IB) has created a series of World Student Conferences to bring together IB Diploma Programme students from around the world to experience what it really means to “think globally”.
At two conferences—one in Segovia, Spain, and the other in Vancouver, British Columbia—students will be exposed to a mix of cultures and form new friendships as they explore ways to make our world a better, more peaceful place.
These chaperoned events each last five days and will provide those who attend with an exceptional opportunity to develop leadership skills and international understanding.
This is truly the opportunity of a lifetime.

http://www.ibo.org/wsc/

UK and Argentina both claim the Falkland Islands - how can we know the truth of these claims?

Nearly three decades after the Falklands War, tensions between the UK and Argentina have resurfaced. The UK insists the Falkland Islands are rightfully the UK's. The Argentine government maintains the islands, which it calls Las Malvinas, belong to it. But what are the details of each side's legal, historical and geographical claims for ownership? This is a good example of knowledge claim, knowledge counterclaims, knowledge issues (how can we know the truth about who has a rightful claim to the islands?), ways of knowing (patriotic emotion versus reason, language as a source of knowledge or propaganda). The Areas of Knowledge would include History and Ethics (in international relations and the use of force by both sides in the war there in the 1980s). Examine this BBC page and see if the BBC manages to overcome any British bias to give a fair and balanced report of both sides of the question.
Is this a fair report? If yes, then it's a good example of reason triumphing over emotion, what do you think?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17045169

TOK ESSAY- ORIGINAL POST FEB 7th - DEADLINE FRIDAY 17th - see link to original post

MR.C.'s TOK Blog: MR C's GRADE X1 TOK ESSAY Q3 FIRST DRAFT 1000 WORD...: How far can we rely on our senses to tell us the truth? (Consider the following Knowledge Issues: To what extent do our senses give us t...

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MR C's GRADE X1 TOK ESSAY Q3 FIRST DRAFT 1000 WORDS DUE FRIDAY 17TH

How far can we rely on our senses to tell us the truth?

• (Consider the following Knowledge Issues: To what extent do our senses give us the truth? To what extent do Reason, Emotion and Language affect our sense perception? What are the scope and limits of sensory information in different areas of knowledge?)
• FIRST DRAFT DUE FRIDAY 17TH FEBRUARY
• SECOND DRAFT DUE FRIDAY MARCH 2ND
• FINAL DRAFT DUE WEDNESDAY MARCH 7TH
• These dates are for my class only but you should check with your TOK teacher for the special arrangements for your own TOK class.

Our Deepest Fear . . .

Charlie Chaplin final speech in The Great Dictator

All students must see Chris Jordan Photography Sense Perception Language Emotion - translating statistics into visual images

Students will write Job Descriptions for EXCOM Positions/election process.

• Dear students of Grade X1
• Congratulations to all candidates in the presidential campaign. The students have selected our Student Leadership Team of Shivaan, Radhika and Anmol but there will lots of opportunities for the other 5 candidates to particiapte in Student Action Groups working with the Excom Officers.
• The elections will be held in English class on Monday and Tuesday. Our Principal, Mr Gardner will announce the results after school on Tuesday.
• I have not produced detailed job descriptions for the EXCOM as I think the titles are largely self-explanatory. I have suggested that Excom will meet with me and Mr Navros lunchtime on Wednesday and begin the process of writing their own more detailed job descriptions and short constitution or charter. We will also set a list of targets and goals, debate them where necessary, build consensus and then Excom will meet with the Principal and Teacher Mentors by March 1st latest with an action plan.
• Excom will organise the elections for Class Reps for Grades 8/9/10 next week but Grade 10 students will not be asked to  spend too much time on events until August.
• Excom will meet as a club in club time in the fourth quarter. I have asked Mr Navros to join me as teacher-mentor during that time to work with the Student Council.
• Workload: it is expected that each Excom officer will lead a Student Action Group of committed students who will work as a team around their special area of responsibility.
• Fine-tuning: any new project needs to be fine-tuned as the structure takes shapes. The teacher mentors will work with the student teams to define roles, initiate projects and support students as we launch the process in our school community. By the time our next elections take place in December, we should have a smooth system of student representation, which is running like a train on a railway line. Right now, we are building the train, laying the tracks and setting out the road map for our various destinations. The work we do now will create a strong foundation for short and long term success.

LANGUAGE WOK -Suntory Time! - Lost in Translation (1/10) Movie CLIP (2003) HD

Exploring Issues with Knowledge-TOK Presentation

This video reminds us that TOK is about the process of the four ways of knowing. In your presentation, you are exploring the WOKs, you are not primarily trying to persuade an audience as in a debate. It is really an analysis of how we acquire knowledge. So a presentation on say "The Ethics of Capital Punishment" will be quite different as a TOK presentation than a debate. See the assessment rubric to grasp the special language and concepts necessary in a TOK essay or presentation. If you simply debate the topic, without exploring the 'TOK in the topic", you will not score highly on the rubric. scale.

Stanford University Website Rationalism (Reason) and Sense Perception

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/

SENSE PERCEPTION and LANGUAGE RESOURCES

Hi everyone - the long post below sets out the objectives for your independent study at home to support the teaching and learning in the classroom. Also, I will post various clips here from Youtube to support your understanding of the WOKs in real life situations (unreliability of eye witness testimony, pilot spatial disorientation and propaganda in "1984" and in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's government etc)
 Q3 Assessment: An essay on WoKs will be set for all students across the year group and I will post this title tomorrow.

3rd Quarter Objectives - Sense Perception and Language WOKS

MRC’s TOK Q3 –  INDEPENDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES - 

TOPICS TO BE STUDIED AT HOME IN       VAN DE LAGEMAAT   “THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE” TEXTBOOK – 

CHAPTERS ON SENSE PERCEPTION AND LANGUAGE (WOKS)

1.       SENSE PERCEPTION PAGES 85-105   -EMPIRICISM

COMMON SENSE REALISM

SCIENTIFIC REALISM

PHENOMENALISM

Other sources – Empiricsim - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism#Early_empiricism

Stanford University    -     http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=empiricism

REAL LIFE ISSUES AND EXAMPLES – TOK BLOG – DR PHIL EYE WITNESS RELIABILITY /PILOT ERROR – SPATIAL DISORIENTATION

LINKING QUESTIONS PAGE 104

2.      LANGUAGE AS A WAY OF KNOWING

PAGE 48 – WHAT ARE THE THREE QUALITIES OR PROPERTIES OF LANGUAGE?

PAGES 52-54 – WHAT ARE THE THREE THEORIES OF LANGUAGE? – DEFINTIION/DENOTATION/IMAGE THEORY

VAGUENESS/AMBIGUITY/ SECONDARY MEANING and DENOTATION VERSUS CONNOTATION

LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION 61-64

LABELS/STEREOTYPES -67

SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS – 68-71

LANGUAGE AND PERSUASION – INFLUENCE-ADVERTISING-PROPAGANDA

LINKING QUESTIONS PAGE 78

Other resources

Stephen Pinker on blog/ Orwell “1984”/THE CENTURY OF SELF DOCUMENTARY BLOG/ FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS AND SANDS OF IWO JIMA – CLINT EASTWOOD –  HOLIDAY VIEWING -Pacific war from American and Japanese perspectives using English and Japanese languages.

Learner’s personal perspective – how do different languages in your life influence the way you speak and the way you think about different subjects? Has English been degraded by popular culture eg Hip-hop? How does the government use language to control the population in “1984”?

Illusions In Flight - Spaitial Disorientation

Dr. Phil's Eyewitness Experiment

Voting and Count of Votes Friday morning

The Presidential election will be held by the form tutors in form class at 950am. Don't be late! The votes will be brought to the office and counted by Mr Gardner. He will announce the result during the morning. First past the post is deemed President, first runner up male and female become Deputy Presidents.
The votes for Excom will be cast in Eng classes on Monday and Tuesday for SL1 - I don't teach them on Monday. All the votes (Grade X1 only voting) will be counted on Tuesday afternoon and the results will be announced at 440pm on Tuesday. Thanks for keeping the campaign friendly and good luck!