Bringing TOK into everyday subject teaching Obtained from experienced TOK teachers working in specialist subject groups at the Madrid TOK conference November 2003. Compiled by Geoffrey Neuss Swedish A1 (Reporter: Håkon Kjellin‚ Täby Gymnasium‚ Sweden Hakan.Kjellin@tibble.taby.se) Interpretation: • Are there correct and incorrect interpretations? Or is relativism absolute when interpreting texts? Is there such a thing as over-interpretation? • What factors – individual psychological
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Alamine Jamai TOK-Metaphors 7/01/11 11th grade 1. To what extent does language generalize individual experience‚ classifying it within the experience of a linguistic group? Did it ever happen to you to be chilling with all your friends‚ suddenly an anecdote comes to mind; you finding it related to the subject
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TOK SCAFFOLDING HANDOUT TITLE: Option 5 "Ways of knowing are a check on our instinctive judgements." To what extent do you agree with this statement. Possible Knowledge Questions " To what extent can our own bias actually be reliable upon what we don’t truly know about"? " Is it justified that one’s culture and upbringing can influence their sense of opinion?" "Can our own emotional human mind impact the way we perceive certain views?" "What roles does our own bias bring upon out instinctive
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synthesis essay about a topic of my choosing. As a woman considering a career in science‚ I researched the gender bias in the science field‚ and why it’s so apparent today. I didn’t realize that I would uncover article after article of individuals undermining the female gender. Ivy League Presidents‚ men with doctorates in Biology‚ and individuals with no background in science alike spread false and harmful information about women. After a few days‚ I started seeing the bias in my own
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company’s return on investment (ROI). Venturing into the UK market in form of a franchise would enable Cattleman’s Selection to reap benefits associated with the franchisee’s local market expertise. 3.3. Market Coverage Strategy Cattleman’s Selection should begin small and strategize for future. It will be a big risk by entering the UK and covering the entire market. Cattleman’s Selection will be moving a safe enterprise by introducing only specific segments until the brand is certain on gaining greater
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Dictionary Argument Ad Ignorantiam: assuming that something is false only because it is not true. Certainty: being sure of something Common Sense: using your background knowledge and logic to decide whether something is true or false. Conformation Bias: agree to opinions and ideas only because they match one’s beliefs. Evidence: facts that support a claim. Gullibility: failure of intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated. Judgment: taking or making decisions on something
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Theory of Knowledge Essay on prescribed title Word Count: 1587 Date: January 2008 [This essay scored 36/40 : an A grade. MF ] “History is always on the move‚ slowly eroding today’s orthodoxy and making space for yesterday’s heresy.” Discuss the extent to which this claim applies to history and at least one other area of knowledge. In order to find out if the claim applies to the areas of knowledge history and chemistry I will break the question down in three parts. Firstly I ask if
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Tok Essay Prescribed title 2 “Compare and contrast knowledge which can be expressed in words/symbols with knowledge that cannot be expressed in this way. Consider CAS and one or more areas of knowledge.” It is funny how the universal signs of intelligence are words and symbols or things that contain them. When someone walks past me with a load of books in their hand I immediately think “oh what a smart and knowledgeable person‚” and I’m sure I’m not the only one that makes these snap judgments
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The relative importance of genetic drift and natural selection on flower colour in the annual desert plant Linanthus parryae‚ whose dominant blue and recessive white phenotypes are controlled mostly by one gene‚ is debated. Epling and Dobzhansky found that spatial distribution of blue- and white-flowering plants was consistent with genetic drift‚ and Wright found that spatial distribution was consistent with that expected in isolation by distance‚ both supporting the predominant importance of genetic
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Gender selection of the embryo prior to conception is one of the controversial topics‚ which has been widely debated considering different aspects. (1‚6) It is a dynamic topic to discuss‚ which raises arguments supporting and rejecting whether it is correct to perform the practice or not. (6) Advanced medical technologies in reproductive medicine facilitate for the couples to choose the gender of their future child prior to pregnancy by using a method called “Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis” (PGD)
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