Transcript 2015 TOK Presentation Infox

2/25 & 2/26 ~ TOK Presentations
Requirements
 Each student must complete and submit a
presentation planning and marking document
(TK/PPD).
 The procedure is as follows.
 The student will complete the student sections of the
TK/PPD form.
 The student will provide a hard copy to the teacher for
reference during the presentation.
 The student will subsequently give the presentation.
 The teacher will authenticate each student’s form and
add comments on the presentation.
Situation or Knowledge Issue
 When creating your presentation it does not matter if
you start with a RLS or Knowledge Issue
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RLS - article on how we begin to learn to speak before we’re
even born.
KQ - ‘How innate is our ability to communicate?’
Construct Convincing Arguments
 Means supporting ideas with solid evidence, and using
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the language of TOK
The key to success is getting your knowledge question
right.
Try to base your presentation as much as possible
around the ways of knowing and areas of knowledge.
Have a position
Use a clear structure
Perspective and significance
 It’s very important to include a consideration of different
perspectives
 Gender
 Race
 Geographical location
 Religion/philosophical position
 Historical era
 Language
 Cultural tradition
 Socio-economic position
 Educational experiences
Strong Examples
 Real life situation: A controversial exhibition in an art gallery
 Knowledge Issue: To what extent are the limits of art defined by morality?
 Real life situation: Claim in a biology textbook that mesosomes are not real
structures in bacteria
 Knowledge Issue: How can we be sure that scientific evidence gained
through the use of technology is genuine?
 Real life situation: A move to make history a compulsory school subject up
to age 16
 Knowledge Issue: To what extent should academic disciplines be ranked
according to their usefulness?
 Real life situation: The use of a personality test to assess students in the
class
 Knowledge Issue: What are the strengths and limitations of quantification
in the human sciences?
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Examples of presentations
 What is the relationship between the natural
sciences and social responsibility?
 Choose a single recent scientific and/or technological
development as a focus.
 Consider its ethical implications.
 Who bears the moral responsibility for directing or
limiting development of such knowledge?
 On what basis can that responsibility be justified?
Examples of presentations
 How do the human sciences help us to understand
many of the misunderstandings and frictions which
frequently arise between groups of people?
 Identify a contemporary problem involving the interaction of
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groups (for example, ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, or
religious groups).
Consider the knowledge given by psychology, anthropology
and economics.
In what ways can these disciplines illuminate the causes and
the characteristics of the problem?
In what ways might they also be relevant to possible
solutions?
Are there other disciplines which would increase our
understanding of the particular issue?
Examples of presentations
 Does history tell us the truth?
 Choose any single historical incident.
 Use it to explore the nature and complexities of
historical truth.
 In what ways is this exploration of the past relevant to an
understanding of the present?
 Is there any contemporary incident which it illuminates?
Examples of presentations
 How do we know whether we are acting in a 'good'
or 'moral' way?
 Select any ethical issue.
 Examine it from two or more possible ethical
viewpoints.
 The purpose is to seek the differing grounds on which
claims to justifying moral behaviour may be made, not
to prove that one way is the 'right' way.
Examples of presentations
 On what bases do spiritual beliefs rest?
 Choose an example of a particular belief (for example, about
the creation of the world or the nature of a life after death).
 Consider it from the point of view of atheism, and at least two
major religions.
 Present in each case the justifications which persuade the
believers.
 Your goal is not to establish any religion as right or wrong, but
to explore belief and justification.
 To what extent can spiritual belief be classified as
'knowledge'?
 Would denying a belief the status of knowledge decrease its
value or significance?
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 Identify an issue of global significance.
 For example, AIDS, genocide, refugees, abuses of human
rights, desertification, pollution and global warming, and
uneven distribution of world resources.
 The issue must introduce a conflict of concepts and values.
 Examine the facts, language, statistics, and images used by at
least two sides in the conflict in their representation of the
issue.
 In the process, identify assumptions, justifications, values
and emotions which diverge.
 To what extent can you find the truth of the issue?
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 Select one new development in knowledge.
 Consider its effect on the discipline within which it has
developed.
 Consider its challenge to ethics or other Areas of
Knowledge.
 In science and technology, for example, you might focus
on the human genome project, cloning, nuclear power,
or the IT revolution.
 In the arts, you might focus on computer- generated art
or electronic music.
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Further Ideas
Some more ideas for topics are listed below. If
you choose one of these, we recommend that
you use the paragraphs on pages 3 and 4 of
this guide to give ideas on how to tackle it.
Labelling of genetically-modified food
Cosmetic surgery - ethics, aesthetics and
cultural diversity
Carbon pricing (environmental economics)
Islamic education
Criticism by "the West" of China on human
rights issues
Creationist biology teaching
Political correctness and the teaching of
literature (banning books that are not "PC")
Ethnicity of heroes & villains in Hollywood
movies
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How the lack of certainty in science is used for
political inaction (e.g. AIDS, greenhouse effect)
Human cloning - what is possible? what is ethical?
Fertility treatments - what is possible? what is ethical?
Perceptions of risk - why do people think that air travel
is more dangerous than car use?
Non-Western aesthetic systems, e.g. in art or music
Do genetic differences between the sexes undermine
the argument for equality?
Could genes influence criminal (e.g. violent)
behaviour? Does this undermine the validity of the
legal system (guilt, punishment, etc.)?
Restrictions on civil rights as a result of "the war on
terrorism"
Terrorism - can it be defined?
Shari'a law (for example, the case of Amina Lawal, the
Nigerian woman who was threatened with stoning for
having a baby outside wedlock)
Iraq
Euthanasia
Vivisection
Globalisation
Business ethics
Child labour
So what is expected???
 By yourself or in your groups determined by me you
will create a Internal Assessment (TOK Presentation)
 TODAY - You should come up with a Real Life Situation
& Knowledge Issue and complete the “outline” entirely
 Next couple classes you will create and put together your
presentation
 Presentations WILL BEGIN ON – Monday March
9th
 Presentations will NEED to last 10 minutes!!!!
 I have posted this PowerPoint & possible presentation
(PowerPoint) to my Wiki!
Timeline of Events
 Presentations will begin on Monday March 9th (A Day)
& Tuesday March 10th (B – Day)
 Presentations must be submitted to Mr. Farley 24 Hours
in Advance
 TK/PPD Planning Sheet – MUST BE TYPED – more info
to come
So What Does the PowerPoint Look
Like???
 Slide 1 – Title Page
 Slide 2 –
Decontextualization –
Thoughts of RLS
 Slide 3 – Knowledge Issue
 Slide 4 - Development #1,
Claim / C.C.
 Slide 5 – Development #2,
Claim / C.C.
 Slide 6 – Development #3,
Claim / C.C.
 Slide 7 – Conclusion
 Slide 8 – Link back to K.I.
 HINT….It is more important
what you say then what is on
the SLIDE
 You probably want to open a
word document or on a
separate sheet record
explanations, examples for
your presentation