TOK1

TOK 5

How hard to claim what I know?​

Are Covid vaccines safe and effective? How do you know?

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HOME TASK WAS:

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Open Ended

Are Covid vaccines safe and effective? How do you know?

Come up with three statements of what you know. Try to make each statement as different from the others as you can.

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Once you’re done writing the statements, explain how you know each statement.

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​Knowledge Claims

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Open Ended

Claim 3 thimgs that you know using framework I KNOW__________

​Work with your partners

1. Share your statements with the partners at your table. Also discuss the various ways in which you know each of those statements.

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2. Once each person is done sharing, consider the different types of knowledge claims each person made. Can you separate the claims intodifferent types of knowledge? What are the different types of knowledge you can identify based on this work?

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3. Work with each other to make a general list of how people know

Different types of knowledge claims

Different types of knowledge claims

​WHAT Is TOK?

the name ‘Theory of knowledge’ (TOK) is not meant to imply that there is only one theory about knowledge

and that you should learn it.

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Theory comes from the Greek word for theatre – a way

of seeing something

– so in this course you will be looking at and thinking about

knowledge from many different angles, from many different perspectives.

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What is wrong with this picture?

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• What does it mean to say that I, or we, have knowledge?

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• What is the basis upon which this knowledge rests

​CHALLENGE YOURSELF

Compare the Wikipedia

encyclopaedia movement

of today with that of

the philosophes of the

Enlightenment in France in

terms of their motives and

successes in collecting all that

humankind should know.

Discuss this statement:

‘Wikipedia is not egalitarian

in any admirable way if the

equality of its sources results

in a sloppy information

architecture that gives

everyone equal access

to creating and receiving

mediocre information’.