TOK: Learning How To Learn
TOK is the lynchpin of the entire Diploma Programme, the one course that truly separates it from every other high school curriculum and the one with the greatest potential to truly change a student’s life.
Tag: TOK Essay
Investigating PT5 – Meta-Investigations
Exploring how PT3 maintains that the most useful aspect of the categorization scheme of developing distinct “areas of knowledge” lies in its potential of combining them.
Investigating PT4 – All Lies?
TOK Essay PT3 and the implications of the subjective aspects of the acts of “concealment” and “revelation” that lie at the heart of the claim.
Investigating PT3 – Systemic Constraints?
A detailed interpretation of TOK prescribed title 3 while highlighting helpful ideas for the structure and related resources for a successful TOK essay.
Investigating PT1 – An Element of Trust
Unpacking TOK prescribed title 1 by identifying key concepts and nuances while highlighting a number of concrete approaches for an excellent TOK essay.
Autism and Scientific Beliefs
Prof. Uta Frith, UCL, describes how the hypothesis that childhood vaccines are linked to autism, while initially plausible, was subjected to rigorous scientific testing and found to be false.
Musical Illusions
To what extent is the popularity of a procedure related to its validity? In Musical Illusions, Prof. Diana Deutsch describes how the celebrated Octave Illusion can be directly applied to the wold of clinical medicine.
Knowledge and Religion
TOK In Action: historian of religion Nile Green, UCLA, describes the profound disconnect he experienced between what he had read about Sufism and what he personally encountered when he began to visit Sufi shrines.
Back To The Future
Ideas Roadshow’s first live online TOK event focuses on the upcoming changes to the TOK curriculum and the origins of TOK.
TOK Title Tips, Part 2 – The Power of Persuasion
Three more key points that students should take into account in the construction of their TOK essay – no matter which title they have chosen.
TOK Title Tips, Part 1 – Getting Practical
Key points that students should take into account in the construction of their TOK essay – no matter which title they have chosen.
Exploring PT 6 – A Wholly Necessary Discussion
Exploring the key notion of necessary and sufficient conditions and the difference between “depending” and “wholly depending”.
Exploring PT 5 – Everything’s A-OK
Navigating various nuances and concepts associated with PT 5, in particular how a divergence of views correlates with areas of knowledge.
Exploring PT 4 – Plunging In
Tackling prescribed title 4 while exploring the difference between an analytic approach and plunging into the world of analogies.
Exploring PT 2 – Sharpening Our Definition
Investigating the different nuances and concepts associated with TOK essay prescribed title #2 for May 2020 with specific suggestions for students.
Searching for Nuance
Words matter: we examine the wording of each of the May 2020 prescribed titles in an effort to help guide students towards key TOK concepts associated with each one.
Theory of Titles
One good way to help students decide which of the May 2020 TOK essay prescribed titles is for them is by contemplating why those titles were chosen to begin with.