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Michael Dunn's Guide to Theory of Knowledge not only helped me clearly understand what a knowledge question is, but also how to form one and incorporate it in a TOK essay and presentation. It must be engaging for the reader, debatable rather than one sided and also linked to a real life situation.
ReplyDeleteThis video explains how there is a knowledge question attached to every event that takes place in life, but it only requires a person to think deep enough and extract a Knowledge Question out of it. These are second order questions which are the questions to what we know and how we know it. Evidences are supposed to back any claim for it to be valid. KQs explores these evidences to get a better understanding of things. These questions are usually open ended and reveal the value system of a person and are always open to debate from all perspectives. It also means that nothing is wrong unless it is backed by appropriate AOKs and WOKs. TOK is a very subjective topic and has no single answer or guideline to follow, unlike others.
ReplyDeleteThis video was very informative and it taught me how Knowledge Questions and Real Life Situations can be incorporated in the TOK presentation and essay. It also helped me to fully understand the concept behind Knowledge Questions. It was very interesting to learn that although the essay and the presentation are a part of the same TOK class, the approach towards them is different. In the essay, the focus is mainly on the Knowledge claims and counter-claims with the RLS as a mere example whereas in the presentation the RLS is the highlight with the KQs inspired by it.
ReplyDeleteMichael Dunn's guide to Theory of Knowledge has helped me understand knowledge questions and the degrees of knowledge questions. The video tells about knowledge questions leading to debates. It also taught me how to incorporate various examples and question in my presentation. The use of imagination is also discussed, questions mentioned are basic but cause the reader to think. This video encouraged me to question basics. The video also helped me get a better understanding of Theory of Knowledge presentation. It told me not to be rigid with my questions and not restrict the reader to 'Yes' or 'No' answers. It explained the need to come up with questions which give rise to further questions. It also speaks about the need to discuss both sides of the coin and not stick to one. It tells us how we should broaden our perspective and be willing to look at a particular things from different angles. Sometimes what we may see may not be true. The video tells us how ToK is a subject different from other subjects, there is no right or wrong it's your own opinion and way of thinking that matters and how we provide examples of the same
ReplyDeleteAs Michael dun stated, knowledge questions are the principal aspects that TOK is based on. Knowledge questions focus on methods and mechanisms that produce knowledge we know instead of identifying the knowledge itself; How do we know what we know is viable? These questions, when assessed with real life situations, trigger constructive doubt and critical thinking in an individual’s mind enabling various interpretations and perceptions of occurrences all around the world. The most recent example of this is the terror scare in Uran less than a week ago. Two children perceived other individuals carrying arms, dressed in black, and speaking an unknown language as terrorists and in consequence, the whole city was alerted. However, how do we know that these children were not lying ? How do we know if these children didn’t make this ’scare' up to seek attention? Therefore, on the basis of these knowledge questions we can actually analyze and assess certain events which further extend our knowledge toward open mindedness, divergent perspectives and knowledge claims.
ReplyDeleteThis video was extremely informative and explained clearly what forms the foundation for TOK. A knowledge question should not state what is at face value instead it must allow for the analysis of the value the question contains through the different ways of knowing and areas of knowing. This video also taught us how to incorporate KQs and RLS into our essays, where we must state our knowledge question, analyse it and finally support our analysis with a RLS which serves as evidence. The same is done for a counter claim. Throughout the video, the uniqueness of TOK is explained. Being a completely subjective subject it allows the student the freedom of expression while questioning things, but at the same time makes the student consider other perspectives as well.
ReplyDeleteMichael Dunn's guide to TOK provided me with some extremely insightful ideas as well as general tips that will aid me not only through the next two years but in the future as well as, since it teaches us how to challenge the knowledge we posses or might receive. As mentioned in the video, KQ's are merely scaled down versions of the main question TOK is based on - how do we know what we know? Any KQ must have this underlying question within it, challenging the reliability of the knowledge one might consider to be 'true'. What I found interesting is that these questions can be extracted from any Real Life Situation - even something as simple as reading an article about music to something as large as a new scientific theory being approved. For example, just a few days ago I read a play called All My Sons by Arthur Miller, that explores this very idea. Each character shows a different level of consciousness towards the truth, but there is no way of being certain that what we think the character is thinking is what he/she is actually thinking - do they know the truth, do they not know the truth, do they suspect the truth? or more importantly, how do we know the truth is actually what is 'true'?
ReplyDeleteMichael Dunn helped me understand how to formulate effective knowledge questions incorporating real life situations. He puts emphasizes on the fact that KQ’s are the ‘fundamental element’ of TOK. We should make sure that the questions we make ‘matter’ to us and ‘engage’ us. Real life situations and Knowledge questions are closely linked. We take examples from our own personal experiences. Form a knowledge question and make sure that we address it through the areas of knowing. For example, the question, ‘To what extent is our imagination to discover new things been limited by today’s preconceived theories?’ is based on a real life situation and is applicable to everyone. Quite a few of us have accepted what scientists tell us, this limits our own creativity and capacity to innovate.
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ReplyDeleteMichael Dunn’s guide to theory of knowledge helped me understand the foundation of TOK which are knowledge questions. Knowledge question arent the questions with ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers. They are the questions which challenge you to deeply analyse them to reach their roots and hence find the answer. They usually question our knowledge “how do we know what we know?”. The video also taught me that a question cannot be answered by just giving certain claims for our argument. It should also include some counterclaims which justify other perspectives and other side of the argument as the world isnt as simple as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. This video helped me to widen the horizon of my knowledge and look at the world differently and also helped me academically. It taught me how to incorporate knowledge questions and supported real life situations in ToK presentations and answers to fulfill the criteria we are marked on.
ReplyDeleteI would like to thank Mr Andrew to make this blog which made it possible for me to come across this video which otherwise wouldn't be possible.
A knowledge question ( a question that challenges a claim/statement ) is the fundamental element of Theory Of Knowledge and TOK revolves around knowledge questions and real life situations. Michael Dunn, in his guide to Theory of Knowledge, helps us understand knowledge questions. We learn that knowledge questions have to be questions that polarise opinion and must be 'open questions' that most people can relate to. They must also challenge knowledge claims based on real life situations. Sir Bradley Wiggins, a prominent cyclist, being accused of drug abuse after his medical records ( his drug exemptions were disclosed) published, is one such knowledge claim. Couldn't he be taking the drugs for therapeutic use as he claims to have done ? Is there any evidence showing that he took the drug to enhance his performances? On the other hand, one can argue about the timing of his drug use. Why did he take it before the Tour De France ? Why didn't he notify the public about this ?
ReplyDeleteHence, knowledge questions make us question the authenticity of certain claims based on real life situations and encourage us to analyse and examine them. Thanks to the guide, understanding knowledge questions and including them in my essays and presentations has become much simpler .
As children, all of us have irritated our parents by asking the question 'How' in response to every statement made by them. It seems like the younger versions of ourselves would be the perfect Theory of Knowledge(ToK) students.
ReplyDeleteIn simple words, Knowledge questions are as the name suggests: Question about knowledge. They are based on the skeleton of the fundamental question 'How do we know what we know?' Ideally, knowledge questions must be relevant to our real lives and must find the topic that will polarise peoples' opinions. In the above video, Michael Dunn says that a good knowledge is likely to cause an argument in class. Well I guess all my opinions are knowledge questions!
Knowledge question need not be questions. They can also be framed as knowledge claims. Knowledge questions should be of the second order i.e. an open question with no absolute answer, and ,must question the how we know something. An example of a knowledge question that I can think of is: How do we know that the sun is the centre of the earth? The answers to this question would explore the WoKs utilised in coming to this conclusion. There are also people who would strongly object to the conventional 'fact.'
I will use knowledge questions to analyse all the important 'facts' that I am aware of and satisfy all my curiosities about things that happen in my daily life.
Michael Dunn's Guide to Theory of Knowledge has helped me understand the foundations of TOK. I have understood the main elements that formulate a knowledge question. A knowledge question comprises of an array of perspectives and ideas. It provides multiple interpretations of a simple or complex Real life situation. According to Micheal Dun a knowledge question engages and compels an individual to question the validity of any claim. The fundamental TOK question which arises is 'how do we know what we know?. This subjective questions gives individuals and students the freedom of expression and thoughts. Knowledge questions can be based on an individual's personal beliefs and ethics.
ReplyDeleteThis video was a detailed orientation on knowledge questions and real life situations. It not only aided me in deriving knowledge questions from real life situations but also facilitated me in understanding what evidence or real life situation I must use to justify a claim. For this quarter, I would like to analyze debates on issues such as capital punishment and abortion. I want to discover why people are strongly biased upon topics and ways of overcoming our own confirmation bias as well as methods of convincing people to overcome their confirmation bias. The most intriguing discussions for me would be those that involve finding and capitalizing on niche markets in the business world and understanding the thought process of a scientist before he makes an invention or discovery. Viewing concepts using the ways of knowing and the areas of knowledge lenses would provide us a better understanding of the subject.
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