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When you hear the word “argument”, you might tend to think of an aggressive shouting match, just to get your point across to somebody – the Latin root of the word actually translates as “to enlighten, make bright”. Argumentation, therefore, is much more than merely getting your point across. And, it’s central to writing all…
If you’ve been in an IB school for awhile, you probably remember hearing older students talking about their Theory of Knowledge presentations. You may have even watched some of them. These presentations formed the ‘internal assessment’ section of TOK, with the TOK essay as the ‘external assessment’. The IBO recently changed the structure of the…
Pt. 8 – The Areas of Knowledge: The Arts, Ethics, Religious Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge This is the final blog post in this ToK series. If you’ve followed the series so far then well done! We’ve been through so much in the last few posts. If you haven’t been following along, go check out the previous…
Pt. 6 – The Areas of Knowledge: Knowledge Frameworks What are the Areas of Knowledge? The Ways of Knowing, which we explored in the previous blog posts, is about how we know things. The Areas of Knowledge are a bit different; these are about what we know and how we produce knowledge. You might remember…
Pt. 5 – The Ways of Knowing: Imagination, Faith, Intuition and Memory What are the Ways of Knowing All knowledge comes from somewhere. Even if we say it is innate (comes from within us) we still have to say how that knowledge appears. The Ways of Knowing are what they sound like, the methods through which knowledge…
Pt. 2 – Types of Knowledge: Shared and Personal Divide and conquer! One good way to understand something difficult is to break it up. In ToK we are asked to look knowledge and try to understand how knowing works. One way the IB suggest we think about this is by breaking up knowledge in to…
(or how I mastered IB ToK achieving the best grade – and how you can too!!!) Pt. 1 – Theory of Knowledge?…help! Let’s Get Started! Hello and welcome to part 1 of the Theory of Knowledge guide! There’s no denying that Theory of Knowledge can be confusing. When I did the IB I struggled for…