IB THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE COORDINATOR - BD SOMANI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL MUMBAI, My contact EMAIL (andrew.callahan@bdsint.org) (Please note this site uses Google cookies in compliance with EU Law. By using this site you accept that cookies are used here.)
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Friday, December 7, 2018
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
How Heaney in his poem Punishment links the bog mummies of Denmark to the tarred and feather women of the Northern Ireland conflict.
Bog body poems - from Wikipedia
Bog bodies inspire four poems in this volume: "Bog Queen", "The Grauballe Man", "Punishment", and "Strange Fruit". In his previous volume, Wintering Out, Heaney published the first of his bog-body poems, "Tollund Man". Heaney was inspired to write these poems after reading PV Glob's book, The Bog People, an archeological study of Iron-Age bodies discovered in the bogs of Northern Europe. In his essay "Feeling Into Words", Heaney explains that he found this book during a time when writing poetry had shifted for him "from being simply a matter of achieving the satisfactory verbal icon to being a search for images and symbols adequate to our predicament".[3]
The bog bodies of Glob's book became such symbols for Heaney, who writes, "And the unforgettable photographs of these victims blended in my mind with photographs of atrocities, past and present, in the long rites of Irish political and religious struggles".[4] In these poems, Heaney draws connections between the past and present.
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Monday, November 19, 2018
Lifeline appeal by Kate Powell for the Down's Syndrome Association - BBC...
Knowledge Questions may include ... How can we know the extent of our responsibility to the less fortunate in our societies? In the Keynesian view, society (through its government raises taxes to fund programmes for education and medical support) but this view is not shared by others who say only charities should bear this burden. What do you think?
Friday, November 16, 2018
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a Distance
Does quantum entanglement make faster-than-light communication possible?
What is NOT random? http://bit.ly/NOTrandoVe
First, I know this video is not easy to understand. Thank you for taking the time to attempt to understand it. I've been working on this for over six months over which time my understanding has improved. Quantum entanglement and spooky action at a distance are still debated by professors of quantum physics (I know because I discussed this topic with two of them).
Does hidden information (called hidden variables by physicists) exist? If it does, the experiment violating Bell inequalities indicates that hidden variables must update faster than light - they would be considered 'non-local'. On the other hand if you don't consider the spins before you make the measurement then you could simply say hidden variables don't exist and whenever you measure spins in the same direction you always get opposite results, which makes sense since angular momentum must be conserved in the universe.
Everyone agrees that quantum entanglement does not allow information to be transmitted faster that light. There is no action either detector operator could take to signal the other one - regardless of the choice of measurement direction, the measured spins are random with 50/50 probability of up/down.
https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Friday, September 28, 2018
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
First Order and Second Order Knowledge Questions - resources from 8 websites.
1. http://theoryofknowledgestudent.com/what-is-a-knowledge-question
2.
https://educationblog.oup.com/tag/knowledge-questions
3.
https://blogs.osc-ib.com/2016/02/ib-teacher-blogs/dp_tokglobal/knowledge-questions/
4.
https://toktrump.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/the-really-easy-guide-to-knowledge-questions/
5.
https://www.ibmastery.com/blog/knowledge-questions-in-international-baccalaureate-subjects
6.
https://www.theoryofknowledge.net/knowledge-and-knowers/knowledge-questions/
7.
https://www.tokresource.org/knowledge-questions/
8. TOP diagram above from this excellent website
http://hillsboroibdp.weebly.com/tok-basics.html
My thanks to all the authors of these various websites. I thought it helpful to index them here in one place and my sincere appreciation for all the work these TOK teachers put into their blogs and websites. All of these resources are in the public domain.
Monday, September 17, 2018
Sunday, September 16, 2018
TOK ESSAY AND PRESENTATION - how to prepare....
ABOVE - Michael Dunn - simply brilliant explaining Knowledge Questions
Below -
How to prepare the TOK ORAL PRESENTATION
TOK ORAL PRESENTATION
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Friday, September 7, 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Michael Dunn's Guide to Theory of Knowledge: Must watch and many times!
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW FOR A GREAT HELPFUL VIDEO FOR BOTH TOK ESSAYS AND PRESENTATIONS......
https://mrctok.blogspot.com/2016/08/michael-dunns-guide-to-theory-of.html
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Friday, August 17, 2018
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Monday, July 23, 2018
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes: FRAUD in the USA
JENNIFER LAWRENCE to star in movie as ELIZABETH HOLMES CEO of THERANOS
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Monday, May 7, 2018
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
The Opium War - Lost in Compensation l HISTORY OF CHINA
Interesting video but are some of the still images what Edward Said called 'Orientalism'?
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Friday, April 13, 2018
Monday, April 9, 2018
Friday, April 6, 2018
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Monday, March 19, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Friday, March 9, 2018
Monday, February 12, 2018
Friday, February 2, 2018
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Friday, January 19, 2018
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
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