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Vertical and Horizontal Articulation for TOK

IBMA Summer Academy 2010. Vertical and Horizontal Articulation for TOK. All handouts and other materials available at:. http://home.comcast.net/~cphenlymbk2006. What is TOK?. Ways of Knowing. Areas of Knowledge. What is TOK?.

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Vertical and Horizontal Articulation for TOK

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  1. IBMA Summer Academy 2010 Vertical and Horizontal Articulation for TOK

  2. All handouts and other materials available at: http://home.comcast.net/~cphenlymbk2006

  3. What is TOK?

  4. Ways of Knowing

  5. Areas of Knowledge

  6. What is TOK? • An investigation into the limits and capabilities, the liabilities and assets of our Ways of Knowing AND • An investigation into the mechanisms, both technological and procedural, within each of the Areas of Knowledge that allow us to maximize the assets and minimize the liabilities of our Ways of Knowing.

  7. The TOK Curriculum

  8. Potential Knowers:

  9. Potential Knowers:

  10. Central Focus • What are the obstacles to making knowledge within this subject area? • What are the mechanisms by which we endeavor to overcome those obstacles? • Procedural • Technological

  11. Other Considerations: • What are the parameters of the “area” of knowledge? (What IS the content?) • Is the content of the Area of Knowledge invented or discovered? • What constitutes a fact within the Area of Knowledge? • What are the primary means by which truth is established? • To what degree is certainty attainable?

  12. The Foundation for Critical Thinking

  13. Elements of Critical Thought

  14. Involving The Rest of the Staff • Align the elements of critical thought with the scoring criteria for your IB assessments. • Teach students the vocabulary and framework of the elements of critical thought. • Evaluate student work in terms of the elements of critical thought.

  15. “The Logic of…” Framework • Purpose • Question • Information • Inference • Concepts • Assumptions • Implications • Point of View

  16. Involving The Rest of the Staff • Consider their own subject in TOK terms (as students will have to do) • Compare the framework for their subject with those of other subjects • Convey to students basic information about the framework—content, values, formal practices.

  17. A Revised Framework for TOK

  18. Sample: Ethics

  19. For Use with TOK Students: • Complete chart for individual subjects • Complete chart comparing/contrasting two or more subjects

  20. Presentation Prepared By: Carolyn P. HenlyMeadowbrook High School4901 Cogbill Rd.Richmond, VA 23234carolyn_henly@comcast.nethttp://home.comcast.net/~cphenlymbk2006

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