UK debates the method for Teaching History in Schools

Christmas Truce

A Civil Action: In Pursuit of Justice

Education for a better world: IB Diploma Programme

UK Muslim society wants forced sex segregation in UK universities 10Dec13

Fascinating knowledge issue. Is it human rights for religious views or discrimination against female students?

BBC - History of Indian Mathematics Part-2 of 2

Mr. C.'s IB English Blog - BD Somani Int School - Mumbai: America: different perspectives and different narratives in history and literature and 'self-image'

CLICK HERE      Mr. C.'s IB English Blog - America : reflections on the American Dream, power constructs, feminism, racism, dominant narratives, colonialism and postcolonialism

Can one person make a difference in our workld?

Growing up just a few yards from the Mississippi River and working as a commercial shell diver, Chad Pregracke grew outraged as he encountered countless abandoned barrels, cars, appliances, and other discarded items along the river. When he was just 17 he decided to do something about it and began cleaning up the river—at first, single-handedly, and a short while later with a growing crew and fleet of barges and equipment. Fifteen years and 550 community river cleanups later, Pregracke, his crew, and more than 70,000 volunteers across the country have removed over eight million pounds of garbage from the Mississippi and 16 other major rivers in the United States.
Pregracke has delivered more than 300 presentations to corporate, public, and student audiences worldwide, emerging as a strong, articulate, and passionate voice for making a difference, one person at a time.

CNN Heroes: Top 10 revealed

Testing the atomic bomb and destroying lives in Japan - BBC - was it the lesser of two evils or a war crime?

The Economist on India's Mars Mission (MANGALYAAN) - Pride or Science?

Emotion and Reason as Ways of Knowing. Does nationalism influence major decisions in countries and does it influence how we construct our knowledge (our point of view of knowledge too) about different events?

Here is a video on Pearl Harbour and Hiromshima and Nagasaki - did national pride influence these decisions?

BBC - History of Indian Mathematics Part-1 of 2

Read the comments section for an example of emotion as a way of knowing.

BBC - GOLDEN RATIO - A Night of Numbers - Phi's The Limit

Fibonacci - The Fibonacci Explained Simply

Modern Black Death - The Next Pandemic - BBC Horizon

The world's most dangerous Virus (full documentary)

BBC THE TRUTH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE PART 1

H. Tracy Hall, Diamond Pioneer - Industrial diamonds invention

H. Tracy Hall, Diamond Pioneer

Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power (+playlist)

All Grade X1 Students - TOK Homework on History as Area of Knowledge

Theory of Knowledge Grade X1 Special Assessment:  All students..

ESSAY TITLE : What is history as an Area of Knowledge? /- Short Essay 450 -600 words. Due Date: Monday December 9^th TOK CLASS.

This written assignment will include your references to and reflections on:

1.    Mr Gardner’s presentation on Monday December 2^nd.

What is history and why is history important in everyone’s life?

2.    The documentary “Lost in Flanders” December 9^th.

Here is a list of suggestions

You may also use other examples based on your knowledge:

3.    Are there examples from Indian history where there are problems of knowledge? Different versions of the same narrative?

4.    Problems of knowledge and knowledge questions can include:

 the problems of bias and the selective use of history for propaganda, mixing history and politics in school textbooks, a one-sided narrative of events, problems of authority and scholarship regarding historians themselves.  

5.    How important are sources in history especially when examining conspiracy theories? (JFK, Princess Diana, New York Twin Towers terrorist attacks)

6.    Do talk to your parents and grandparents. Ask them what they think is important in history!

NOTE: You are not expected to cover all the above points, they are there to help guide you find your own voice on this topic.

 Mr Andrew, Ms Meenakshy, Mr Declan, Mr Aneesh, Mr Navros.

First World War - enthusiasm, mobilisation, technology, trenches.

Wilfred Owen's poetry comes in the latter stages of the war when bitterness at the incompetence of leaders, the horrific waste of young lives.
Another important point here was  the realization that the optimism of MODERNISM, the Industrial Revolution, the spread of literacy and education, the advances in Science and Technology were not serving to improve humanity but to kill our fellow man more brutally, ruthlessly and efficiently. This is one of the sources of a general pessimism in twentieth century literature.

The fact that we had a second world war twenty years later with even more efficient brutality, aerial bombing of cities, the atomic bombs, the mass murders in the concentration camps helped create the literature of THE ABSURD, Existentialism, Postmodernism etc You can see this in "Waiting for Godot" and Bukowsky.

MIT: Are Mathematical Models the Cause for Financial Crisis in the Global Eco...

Areas of Knowledge: Mathematics, Human Sciences - Economics and Investing, Financial Products, Corporate Responsibility, Ethics.
Ways of Knowing, Emotion (Fear and Greed) and Reason (what is the evidence?), Language - was language recklessly to create euphemistic terms for new products?
Secondary knowledge issue: What role did the Credit Rating Agencies play in the crisis?
Quote from the presentation: 'Nobody really knew what they had or what it was worth.... the market had broken down.'

Gender: is there evidence for differences in male and female brains?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-mens-brains-are-wired-differently-than-women

How Men's Brains Are Wired Differently Than Women's Male brains have more connections within hemispheres to optimize motor skills, whereas female brains are more connected between hemispheres to combine analytical and intuitive thinking

Pranav Mistry's Sixth-Sense and Microsoft's Productivity Future Vision

ETHICS and SCIENCE : It's time to question bio-engineering - do you know what scientists are doing today? Designing new animals in the lab

I had a strong negative reaction when I watched this video the first time. It was a combination of sense perception and  emotion as ways of knowing that made me feel uncomfortable with the images and some of the ideas in the presentation. So what if some scientists start doing this with human beings?  - from Mr C

TED LECTURE - WHO IS THE PRESENTER?

Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D.

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics
Director, Center for Ethics
Emory University.

Publications
Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University.  Dr. Wolpe also serves as the first Senior Bioethicist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), where he is responsible for formulating policy on bioethical issues and safeguarding research subjects. He is Co-Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), the premier scholarly journal in bioethics, and Editor of AJOB Neuroscience, and sits on the editorial boards of over a dozen professional journals in medicine and ethics. Dr Wolpe is a past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest medical society; a Fellow of the Hastings Center, the oldest bioethics institute in America; and was the first National Bioethics Advisor to Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

World Aids Day 2013 - International SOS (+playlist)

HIV infection is still with us 30 years after the virus was first identified. It must be said that abstinence from risky behaviour is the best protection of your health. Love and sex should go together in a loving stable relationship with one partner in marriage. Risky behaviour and poor choices are not the only causes of HIV infection. In the past people have been infected by tainted blood transfusions in hospitals, which raises a host of questions for us as students of TOK.