Team Hoyt Accepting ESPY "Jimmy V" Award

Prof David Luban : Guantanamo Bay and Interrogation Rules

How Shakespeare invented thinking on the page | Oxford Handbooks Online

Flashmob Nürnberg 2014 - Ode an die Freude

Nabucco - Hebrew Slaves Chorus - is it possible to appreciate some forms of music even if we don't understand the langauge of the lyrics

A very basic overview of Premodernism, Modernism and Postmodernism in Western Philosophy.

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Mr. C's IB English Literature Blog - BD Somani Int School : A very basic overview of Premodernism, Modernism and Postmodernism in Western Philosophy.

Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction

Judge forces Jehovah's Witness parents to allow transfusion for daughter...

TOK Presentation Model 2015

BBC World News - Hikikomori in Japan

                     

Can this phenomenon help us understand Kafka's novel "METAMORPHOSIS" and other problems of social isolation?

How Did Latin Become A Dead Language?

When Adolf Hitler declared war on modern art

'Degenerate Art' exhibit explores Nazi assault on modern art

BBC - History of Indian Mathematics Part-1 of 2

The Conspiracy Files: The Trump Dossier - Documentary [HD]

IRAQ WAR - ETHICS - HUMAN SCIENCES- Daylight Robbery - WAR PROFITEERING

History in Film Club The Movie Gladiator - Hollywood or History?

Are movies with historical themes required to be entertaining or historically accurate?
Should we expect the films to focus on spectacle and drama rather than historical accuracy?
Students in our Film in History Club were asked to research either Emperor Marcus Aurelius or his son Commodus and to share their views here in the comments section.

Other resources click on the link http://ux.brookdalecc.edu/fac/history/Tangents/gladiatiors.htm

PHILOSOPHY: Jacques Derrida

Carl Sagan's Famous 'Pale Blue Dot' Quote in "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odysse...

TOK Presentation Model 2015

How Harkness Works

Eyewitness Testimony Part 1 RONALD COTTON

PHILOSOPHY - David Hume

Why Are People So Nasty?

Fareed Zakaria: "DONALD TRUMP IS THE CANCER OF OUR DEMOCRACY" @realdonal...

The Tragedy of Wounded Knee (The Ghost Dance) THE FIRST PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAS

How to get started with the IB TOK Essay

personal vs shared knowledge

kc and kq

knowledge framework

Michael Dunn's Guide to Theory of Knowledge: Real Life Situations and Kn...

Intro to TOK - THE NEW COURSE from 2015 onwards

Theory of Knowledge - The Essay by Ric Sims

The story of Team Hoyt

Turing CEO Martin Shkreli Talks 5,000% Drug Price Hike (Full Interview) ...

'Waking Life' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times

Billy Elliot (4/12) Movie CLIP - Not for Lads (2000) HD

Semenya in Olympic Debut After Gender Testing - How do we define gender identity - male or female

Working at Google Dublin, Ireland - E U Headquarters - collaborative working in practice

Terri Schiavo Documentary: The Case's Enduring Legacy | Retro Report | T...

Battle For Terri Schiavo's Death Remembered | Flashback | NBC News

Teachers TV- Climate Change - The Causes

John Stossel GLOBAL WARMING SCANDAL O'REILLY FACTOR FOX News 12-1-09

Art, Music, Culture, Historical Legacy - aesthetic questions about beauty and complex questions about music and politics?

AOK - Art, Music, Human Sciences (Culture), WOK - Sense Pereption, Emotion, Imagination, - can you think of any others and what Knowlege Questions come to mind regarding music in general (is it a language, is a form of communiction?) - to what extent do our own cultural perspectives (personal knowledge and cultural environment influence how we determine beauty in art?)



Different perspectives -

Can we agree on a universal definition of beauty in  art? What did Keats mean when he wrote "Beauty is truth, truth beauty'?

Politics and history -

Is our perception of music influnced by its cultural associations - for example if Wagner was Hitler's favourite composer, can we separate that fact from our experience of Wagner and how important is the work of Jewish conductor Daniel Barenboim in choosing to promote Wagner's music despite Hitler's love of Wagner?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CwqwhJfghc

But the controversy persists:
CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW  https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/24/reviews/990124.24ryanlt.html

NIETZSCHE AND WAGNER
A Lesson in Subjugation.By Joachim Kohler.
Translated by Ronald Taylor.
Illustrated. 186 pp. New Haven:
Yale University Press. $25.

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Grade X1 discuss Knowledge Questions

   

 Grade X1 studetns Atishi and Sarya present their ideas on Knowledge Questions to our TOK students.

BDSIS GRADE X1 TOK ORAL PROJECT

THE TOK PROJECT AND ORAL PRESENTATION

REAL  LIFE  SITUATION – STUDENTS HAVE WORKED IN GROUPS

KNOWLEDGE QUESTION

HOW CAN WE KNOW IF THE ORAL PROJECT HAS HELPED STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE FIRST 3 CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK?

Students should post a brief comment here by Tuesday evening.

Battle For Terri Schiavo's Death Remembered | Flashback | NBC News

Michael Dunn: What Makes a Good Knowledge Question?

Philippines drug war sparks outrage, fear

TOK Presentation Model 2015

Terri Schiavo Documentary: The Case's Enduring Legacy | Retro Report | T...

What Is Six Thinking Hats?

TOK Presentation Model 2015 - excellent video

Donald Trump:Mexico sends drugs,criminals and rapists to US | México env...

                                                     

 Is this language from the speaer legitimate commentary on illegal immigration in the USA?

Or is it deliberately inflammatory rhetoric to stir up the baser demons of fear rather than the 'better angels of our nature'? If we use Language and Emotion and Reason as WOKs, can we can form a KQ about this clip from Mr Trump?

Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MUR...

TOK Presentation Model 2015

Catriona McKay

TOK ESSAY TITLES MAY 2017

There will be a special meeting of all students and teachers in late September to discuss best practice in exploring these titles.

1. “It is only knowledge produced with difficulty that we truly value.”To what extent do you agree with this statement?
2. “Facts are needed to establish theories but theories are needed to make sense of facts.”Discuss this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge.
3. Should key events in the historical development of areas of knowledge always bejudged by the standards of their time?
4. “In the production of knowledge, traditions of areas of knowledge offer correctivesfor ways of knowing.”  To what extent do you agree with this statement?
5. Given access to the same facts, how is it possible that there can be disagreementbetween experts in a discipline?  Develop your answer with reference to two areas of knowledge.
6. “Humans are pattern  seeking animals and we are adept at finding patternswhether they exist or not” (adapted from Michael Shermer).  Discuss knowledgequestions raised by this idea in two areas of knowledge.

The Value of a Non Artistic Lens TOK Presentation created by Kevin Hoye and Charlotte Nielsen

Personal Robots

Dr Cynthia Breazeal Fareed Zakaria Interview On jibo
AI and Social Robots - is it possible?

WOK and AOK

THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE ORAL PRESENTATION - WHY THE FORMS ARE VERY IMPORTANT - TK/PPD FORM

http://blog.joekoss.me/2016/08/tok-presentation-as-compliance-not.html#comment-form

This year marked the second year of using the new holistic IB rubrics for marking both the Theory of Knowledge essay and presentation. It was also the second year of the TOK Presentation being subjected to moderation procedures by external IB examiners. The moderation procedures follow more or less the same procedures IB uses for all other IA moderation, using dynamic sampling and tolerance bands.

Except for one glaring difference: the work being moderated for the TOK Presentation is not the product itself, as it is with all other externally moderated IAs. Rather the work moderated is a "Presentation Planning Document (TK/PPD)," which asks the students to, in 500 words or less,describe, state, explain, outline, and show how their presentation "succeeds in showing that TOK concepts can have practical application."

Michael Dunn's Guide to Theory of Knowledge: Real Life Situations and Kn...

ToK Essay Advice.wmv

Rio Olympics | Muslim American First Team USA Member to Wear a Hijab

                  

Meet Pakistan's 1st female firefighter.

The Effects of Sleepless Nights

Sign Language: knowledge and deaf culture

Noam Chomsky - On Being Truly Educated

What Is the Difference Between a Raven and a Crow

                                           



This video is a good example of using Sense Perception (especially our sight and hearing) to distinguish birds that may seem similar. So here is an example of a Real Life Situation (we have both species in South Mumbai) where our knowledge can be expanded using technology but also our own observations, So shared knowledge and personal knowledge can become part of the zone of exchange.

My thanks to the original poster on youtube for the video and this information:

In this video we show " What is the difference between a raven and a crow ?" Know that in the western US we have Common Ravens and American Crows, so that's what this clip is comparing.

After viewing this video, test your Raven knowledge or learn more about ravens and crows by taking our "Raven Crow Training Test." Twelve action clips of real birds with original sound just as you would find them in the wild plus three bonus clips challenges all corvid lovers to try to identify the Common Raven from the American Crow.

Examples from all over the western United States include; The Grand Canyon - Arizona, Santa Fe and New Mexico, Olympic Peninsula - Washington, Bryce - Utah, Crystal Cove State Park - California and more.

WELCOME TO ALL NEW GRADE X1 STUDENTS

The Big Short Trailer (2015) ‐ Paramount Pictures

Eyewitness Testimony Part 1 RONALD COTTON CASE

Christopher Columbus - knowledge questions in history

Following Columbus: The team trying to rewrite the explorer's route - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36884261

What is TOK?

https://youtu.be/iOJ5JDsWxFc

Cavatina - Cordoba Master Series Hauser Model

There are many TOK aspects to this post. Art as AOK, how does each artist 'change' or 'own' the compostion once it becomes a public work.

However, I really posted it simply because it's beautiful.

How Does Global Warming Affect Animals? - Earth Unplugged

CNN praises India's Mars Mission & ISRO

INTRODUCTION TO THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

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MR.C's TOK Blog- BD Somani Int School -Mumbai: TOK GETTING STARTED - AN INTRODUCTION:

How Logical Are You? (Psychology of Reasoning)

Bill Gates: How to Fix Capitalism

Can doping ever be eliminated from sport? - BBC HARDtalk / Extratime

Defending Liberal Education

  

Why Literature and the Humanities including the arts are still important today.

 Commencement speech at Harvard.

What is a TOK knowledge question? How does your understanding of this concept impact your grade?

 

Professor A C Grayling - 10 Mins On Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction

The Guardian's 1986 'Points of view' advert

How to take Cornell notes

Ancient India's Contributions to the World (Full Documentary)

Is The Moon Landing Footage Real?

Sophie's World Book Review

Justice: Ep01 The Moral Side of Murder Lecture by Prof Sandel, Harvard University.

Guernica (Picasso)

The effects of Flint's lead poisoning disaster

Bill Kynes -What is postmodernism?

Coach Carter (Respect Scene)

Iraq's lost billions daylight robbery - Panorama Part 1

The women denied rights to own land - BBC News

                                                     
Students are reminded that there is a difference between topics for discussion and defining the TOK Knowledge Questions which are embedded in Real Life Situations.
One way to approach this challenge is to use questions to explore the data and perspectives in any RLS. Students should make full use of the excellent Michael Dunn videos to help them understand the difference between a topic, a first order KNOWLEDGE QUESTION and a second order KQ.
If you do not persevere until you acquire these competencies your journey in TOK will be incomplete and your assessment outcomes will be compromised.
One of the most important aspects of Knowledge as a construct is to always look at the source.
There is no 'perfect' source but students should know that not all sources are equally authoritative or credible. While healthy and respectful disagreement is part of a democratic discourse and critical thinking, learners should expect higher standards of CREDIBILITY from say the websites of reputable universities and respected media organisations.
Not all sources are of equal authority.
Does this apply to all websites and organisations such as the websites of the Flat Earth Society.
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/
These are sincere people and their views should be debated with respect and without rancour.
However, if we apply critical thinking we can see that their views are based on a denial of the shared knowledge of the mainstream academic world.
Now back to the BBC video above:
For example:
Watch the video. You will have a response. Is your Way of Knowing about this video affected by your own personal knowledge and the shared knowledge of your culture, class or society.
Is there any bias you can identify in your reaction.
Now after reflecting on your personal response and talking and listening to your classmates, be open-minded to other points of view and perspectives.
Now look at the images and language of the video. Is it fair and balanced?
Now progress to a more TOK approach to the video, using the KNOWLEDGE FRAMEWORK to read/listen closely to the language of the text.
KNOWLEDGE QUESTION
How can we know to what extent does gender imbalance in land ownership impact food production in some countries. What limitations does the commentary suggest with the phrase "in countries where data exists"?

Mythbusters Moon Landing photo hoax 1

MSNBC Debates Moon Landing Hoax (2002)

The truth about 9/11 - Family Guy - Logic Meister

What Is Six Thinking Hats?

Sophie's World Book Review

CJ Pascoe and Dalton Conley discuss her book, Dude You're a Fag

Michael Dunn's Guide to Theory of Knowledge: Real Life Situations and Kn...

Mahashivratri | Lord Shiva | Children's Tales, Moral Stories and Fables ...

KOKO - how can we know the truth about knowledge claims for inter-species communication

http://www.koko.org/index.php

The Universe

     

Michael Dunn's Guide to Theory of Knowledge: Real Life Situations and Kn...

The Artist Francis Bacon A Terrible Beauty

          

Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", language, gender, identity and comedy,

                            

Gravitational waves: A three minute guide

Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MUR...

TOK presentation - Emotions and Mathematics

How to do a TOK presentation right!

Theory of Knowledge Art: what is art?

Michael Dunn's Guide to Theory of Knowledge (TOK): Ways of Knowing

The Big Bang Theory - Evolution versus Creationism (funny)

Missing Malaysian Plane MH370 Discovery Channel [Documentary] FULL

Rendition Trailer

Language and Prejudice - how important is language in creating respectful conversations around gender and race topics?

  

  

   

Raw: Four Big Banks Fined Over 2 Billion

Ethics / Human Sciences/ Cycling Greatest Fraud: Lance Armstrong National Geographic Docume...

Faith vs Reason

   

Professor Karen Armstrong author and activist for inter-faith dialogue.      

 
Atheist Sam Harris versus Christian Hugh Hewitt.

The Death of the Author?

'The Death of the Author' Simplified (Roland Barthes)

The Maltreatment of Jewish–Austrians - a warning from history?

 Racism begins with rhetoric and becomes incrementally more abusive of our fellow human beings and denies them their rights. So extremists always create "Tbe Other" to justify exclusion and hate and violence. Internationalmindedness embraces the common humanity of all people who share this planet and rejects supremacist views of any kind.

Documentary - Dangerous Knowledge 1 Georg Cantor and Ludwig Boltzmann

 Knowledge Questions and the challenges faced by some great mathematicians.

Speer's daughter and the Syrian refugees

Inspiring story from the BBC                                                                                                    CLICK HERE http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34198967



Hilde Schramm - the 79-year-old daughter of Hitler's architect, Albert Speer (above) - has spent a life campaigning for peace, fighting racism, and supporting Germany's green movement. This year she decided to help two Syrian refugees, but they have ended up helping her in return.