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Starter: How does language affect how we see the world?
Starter: How does language affect how we see the world?
Objective: begin to understand TOK and ourselves as Knowers
Objective: begin to understand TOK and ourselves as Knowers
Outcomes:
Outcomes:
1. What should be the aim of our classroom discussions? What do you think should be our classroom participation expectations to help us achieve that aim?
Class participation expectations
Participate fully - this means speaking and listening and allowing others to do the same.
Share verbal space. 3 before me...be aware of how much you’re talking in comparison to others, and don’t interrupt when others are speaking.
If you have a perspective to share which would benefit others, it is your moral imperative to do so!
Ask questions when you don’t understand something
Respect confidentiality. Don’t talk about the people in your group to those who are not in your group. No gossip.
No ‘put downs’, non-verbal or otherwise.
Treat everyone in the group with respect.
2. What ethical responsibility we all have in the TOK classroom to contribute to shared knowledge?
i.e. if a person has a thought/idea about the discussion topic, do they have a responsibility to share that thought with the class, or not? And what responsibility do you have in listening to that thought/idea?
What are the implications/possible outcomes of a person NOT sharing?
What are the implications/possible outcomes of a person sharing?
Try to bring in ETHICS and TOK knowledge in your discussion
SHARE OUT after 10 minutes
3. Look at your responses to the `Profile as a Knower' questions you looked at and noted brief responses to prior to this class. We will discuss the further [If you are at home, chose two questions to develop your thoughts on, in addition to the required question and make notes in your journal.
4. Discuss yourself as a Knower using these prompts to support your discussion...
What were your overall impressions of the questions and how do they relate to yourself as a knower?
Why do you think those questions were the ones we asked?
What is missing from our list/ what would you add? What is another aspect of yourself that affects how you view the world?
5.
a. What is your interpretation of the following diagram?
Click the diagram below for further information and follow up questions...
6. The concepts in TOK are these: Certainty
Explanation Interpretation
Culture Evidence Justification Objectivity Perspective Power
Responsibility Truth Values
a. Define the concepts.
b. What role do you think these concepts play in the acquisition and sharing of knowledge?
c. Make a TOK concept game using Wordwall
7. Pick a concept and make a connection to an object in your backpack.
How can that object illustrate your perspective on that concept?
Discuss with a partner
Then, take a picture of your object. Upload it to your TOK Journal and write a 2-3 sentence rationale for how that object connects to that concept, answering the question:
"How can this object illustrate my perspective on the concept of _____?"
PLENARY: When a 'normal' person asks you 'What is TOK?', how will you answer?
PLENARY: When a 'normal' person asks you 'What is TOK?', how will you answer?
Maybe this?
Maybe this?
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