Week 1 - Scope: Different sorts of knowledge

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Welcome to

Theory of Knowledge

Unit 1 - Unravelling knowledge

What can you admire him for?<div>What can you criticize him for?</div>

We want to be intellectually autonomous, but we also need to trust knowledge presented to us. 

That's why it's good to think about how knowledge is shaped, constructed, discovered, stumbled upon.

Dare to know!

Immanuel Kant in his essay What is Enlightenment? (1784)

We want to be intellectually autonomous, but we also need to trust knowledge presented to us. 

That's why it's good to think about how knowledge is shaped, constructed, discovered, stumbled upon.

We want to be intellectually autonomous, but we also need to trust knowledge presented to us. 

That's why it's good to think about how knowledge is shaped, constructed, discovered, stumbled upon.

What will we be doing?

The plan

Goal of TOK

To reflect on the nature, scope and limitations of knowledge and the process of knowing.

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What might be a justification for TOK in the core of the DP? 

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Goal

To reflect on the nature, scope and limitations of knowledge and the process of knowing.

How?

• reflecting on the scope, perspectives, methods & tools and the ethics of different areas of knowledge
• making connections between different academic disciplines
• by reflecting on your own beliefs and assumptions

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Key concepts

evidence

certainty

power

interpretation

justification

explanation

perspective

objectivity

culture

values

truth

responsability

Is there a concept that jumps out for you?<div><br></div>

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The plan

this year

unit 1	unit 2	unit 3	unit 4	unit 5	unit 6	IA
Knowledge& the knower	Knowledge & technology	AOK: Math	AOK: the Arts	Knowledge & language	AOK: History	The Exhibition

next year

unit 7	unit 8	unit 9	EA
AOK: Natural sciences	AOK: Human sciences	Knowledge & the knower	the essay

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Knowledge framework

Perspectives

Scope

Methods & Tools

Ethics

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Assessment

IA = Internal assessment (33%)

EA = External assessment (67%)

You will create an exhibition that explores how TOK manifests in the world around us.

You will write an essay in response to one of the

prescribed titles that are issued by the IB.

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Sources

• Kognity (online)
• Textbooks
• The other subjects in the DP
• Personal knowledge and experiences 

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Week 1: scope	Week 2: perspective	Week 3: methods & tools	Week 4: methods & tools
What counts as knowledge?	How do perspectives shape knowledge?	How do we justify knowledge claims?	How do reasoning and bias affect what we accept as knowledge?

The plan

Unit 1: Unravelling knowledge

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Assessment this unit

Assessment 1

Journal entries

Assessment 2

Case-study analysis

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Week 1: 

scope

What counts as knowledge?

Today

Monday	Thursday
Different sorts of knowledge	Limits of knowledge

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Quick task

Write down as many different kinds of things as you know.

How could you categorize the examples?<div>What type of knowledge is most important? Why?&nbsp;</div>

Unit 1 - Unravelling knowledge

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Quick task

Unit 1 - Unravelling knowledge

Pick out one skill you possess, or one topic on which you are well informed, and try to give a brief overview of all the knowledge that converged in your knowing it personally, developing your skills, and being able to tell others about it. Feel free to use diagrams and pictures.

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Unit 1 - Unravelling knowledge

Knowledge question (KQ):

What counts as knowledge?

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Unit 1 - Unravelling knowledge

*Knowledge is...

• Vast 
• interconnected
• collectively constructed 
• cumulative

*K 2.1.0

Can you apply this to an example?

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Unit 1 - Unravelling knowledge

*A way to break down knowledge:

1. knowing from direct personal experience; often difficult to put into words
2. knowing how to do something; skill
3. knowing that something is so; information and ideas.

*K 2.1.1

<div>Is one of these kinds of knowing more important than the others?</div><div><br></div>Are some skills more fundamental for understanding?<div><br><div>Are skills taught, gained and evaluated in different ways from information and ideas?</div></div>

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Unit 1 - Unravelling knowledge

       Journal activity week 1:

Choose one everyday activity (e.g. cooking, gaming, sport) you are familiar with. Analyse this activity in three steps:

1. Explain how this activity shows how knowledge is vast, interconnected, collectively constructed and cumulative. 
2. Show how the three kinds of knowledge apply to this activity (personal experience, skill, information & ideas) . 
3. Explain a limitation of knowledge that is involved. 

*K 2.1.0

Before you start

Make a rough draft before you start writing in your journal.

Work neatly

You will need to hand in your journal for assessment.

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Unit 1 - Unravelling knowledge

Essential understandings week 1:

• Recognize an analytical breakdown of knowledge into three major kinds: knowing from direct experience, knowing how (skills) and knowing that... (information and ideas; knowledge claims). 
• Describe ways in which the three kinds of knowledge are interrelated 
• Define the differences between knowledge, beliefs and opinions
• Identify limitations of the scope of knowledge: human biology, technology

Welkom bij VAK

Unit #:

Learner Profile: ....

ATL: ....

Related concepts: ....

Key concept: ....

Statement of Inquiry

Global context: ....

Overzicht periode #

Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7
...	...	...	...	...	...	...

Reflectie

Checklist:

• Reflecteren op leerdoelen,  ATL-skills en/ of Learner Profile
• Doelen volgende les opstellen
  
• JdW-planner

Waar gaan de leerlingen de reflectie en het leerproces vastleggen?
Toddle, whiteboard/poster/prikbord in de klas bijwerken 

8. Afsluiting

De docent controleert in de slotfase van de les of de leerdoelen door alle leerlingen behaald zijn en plaatst de les in de context van de betreffende Unit. De docent evalueert samen met de leerlingen het leren en het gedrag op basis van het Learner Profile en de ATL-skills. Dit wordt vastgelegd in Toddle. Samen blikken docent en leerlingen vooruit aan de hand van de JdW-planner.

Knowledge questions

To what extent is certainty attainable? 

Can knowledge change established values or beliefs? 

Are some types of knowledge more useful than others?

Is the division of the natural sciences and mathematics into separate areas of knowledge artificial?

When historians and natural scientists say that they have explained something, are they using the word “explain” in the same way? 

zie beleidsstuk voor achtergrondinfo.

ToK assessment

Year 1: exhibition

Year 2: essay

zie beleidsstuk voor achtergrondinfo.