Now Presenting: You

Following in the footsteps of our group work and modeling, I'd like you to begin crafting complete TOK presentations of your own. For Wednesday evening at 9:30, please post a real world situation and a knowledge question derived from the ways of knowing at play therein. We will evaluate these together in Thursday's class, then work on completing the framework of your presentation.

You Don't Know Like I Know

Continuing our examinations of the impacts of perspectives, please select and describe a moment of knowledge from one of your classes. Examine the ways your perspective as a knower shapes your knowledge, then compare that to a different knower's perspective on the same moment. Please share this by 9:30 Sunday evening.

What Do You Think?

Let's bring things a little closer to home. Please select, share, and explain a moment of knowledge from one of your other classes. That done, extract and share a first-order claim, a second-order claim, and a knowledge question. Remember, your second-order claim and your KQ may be very similar. Please couch your KQ in the language of TOK. This is due by 9:30pm Sunday 1 November.

Mind the Gap

Follow the link to Gapminder from the list at the right. Choose a data set (in graph form) and, in a post below, write a first-order claim, a second-order claim, and a knowledge question, all based on the data visualization you've selected.

Question Your Surroundings

For Sunday evening (by 9:30), please identify and describe a moment of knowledge, either from a class or outside the (directly) academic realm. Next, extract and write a knowledge question based on the moment you've shared. Please couch your KQ in the language of TOK.

Your First (and Second) Orders

To solidify for yourselves the distinction between first- and second-order knowledge claims, please compose two of each. Please ground your first-order claims in two different Areas of Knowledge (one each). Your four statements are due, as comments on this post, by 9:30 pm on Monday, 10/12. For your review, I've shared yesterday's presentation in Classroom.