A short activity for ToK students. We do not offer full ToK at school - we are not an IB school- but I teach an additional studies session of ToK on a Monday. I like to mix my more hypothetical …
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ToK A brief introduction…
I am very pleased to be teaching ToK (Theory of Knowledge) again next term, albeit as part of a 6th form enrichment programme rather than as a fully fledged IBDP ToK course... Here is an idea for the 5 lesson …
Paris : Friday 13th November 2015. How can we know what to feel? A ToK stimulus by any other name…
A couple of hours ago I read a tweet from a twitter-colleague Emma Kell (@thosethatcan). It read "When there was unprecedented horror in France in January, I was full of energised response for my students. This time, I’m all out …
TOK stimulus for presentation: The language of Government.
The TOK of the Government proclamation: • Ofsted chief: ‘teachers don't know what stress is' • "The examination system that we have has got to be ruthless and stretching all pupils," • has said he intends to ditch the term …
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Is there TOK in the torch?
A friend of mine is quite exercised by the fact that the original idea for a torch relay belonged to Adolf Hitler. He is tweeting about this and, as I watched it arrive in my home town this morning, I …
Martin Creed:DIE as a TOK KNOWLEDGE ISSUE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2012/may/30/martin-creed-die-world-premiere-exclusive-video This video has intrigued me and it will turn up in next term's TOK teaching somewhere. Recently students were variously intrigued and bemused by Creed's Turner Prize winning light installation, and now I will give them this to chew …
TOK lesson resources
These are some of my TOK lesson PowerPoints - others are on the site already. The poetry creation comes from material used in my training by the IBO in Bratislava in 2005 poetry composition TOK arts intro tok intro theories …
TOK presentation ideas: The Voice vs X Factor
I thought I'd repost this as an homage to the WJEC English language exam sat yesterday by my Y11s... Students might be surprised to read that my focus here would not be art or judging art, but rather the power …
Clarkson as real life situation: TOK presentation
What is your perception of Jeremy Clarkson? Is he an anarchic TV personality who should be applauded for his outspoken honesty or is he a tool of the privately educated capitalist bigots who should themselves be locked up for fomenting …
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Charlie Hebdo, fear and fundamentalism- a TOK Presentation in waiting.
Some time ago, I wrote a piece discussing the irrational fear of music felt by totalitarian leaders and suggested a TOK approach. https://jwpblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/why-are-we-afraid-of-music-tok-thoughts/ On the train this morning I read that the offices of the satirical magazine CHARLIE HEBDO have …
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