TOK

TOK: Ethics Is there a difference between where our ethical beliefs do come from and should come from (consider at least two different Ways of Knowing)? There is a difference between where our ethical beliefs come from and where they should come from. The current ethics that we consider as individuals, community, and society may […]

Task: 3 knowledge claims related to the knowledge framework and could be supported by examples from this lesson. (History) One knowledge claim for history can be our understanding and trust in past events, whether they happened or not. This can be validated by having overlapping information and agreement between a group of people. Since often […]

Task: Please write a Portfolio reflection on your thinking, interpretations and learning from the Religious Knowledge Systems TOK Day (approx 300 words). In your reflection, please consider and make connections to other AOKs and WOK. Consider how your knowledge fits together and your understanding ‘sits’ alongside other understandings.   My interpretations and learning from the Religious […]

1.Why might people have lied to pollsters about who they were going to vote for in the 2016 election? People may have felt embarrassed and uncomfortable to tell others who they really wanted t vote for to avoid judgment from others. “Social desirability bias,” the idea that voters give polling answers that for whatever reason they […]

In your own words, define intuition as a WOK.WOK stands for ways of knowing, which I would say are factors that go into how to perceive, understand, learn and evaluate ideas. Some examples of WOK are sense perception, reason, emotion, faith, imagination, intuition, memory and language. Do you think intuition is mostly accurate as a […]

From the  ‘Bad Decisions’ TED Talk by —, I began to notice instances in my life where I had been using some of the reasonings that he had mentioned in my actual life. He talked about how we have a tendency to compare everything to the past, which causes people to pass up the better deal. […]

The Mathematical Method involves ‘axioms‘ or things that we accept as truths. Although mathematics uses deductive reasoning and induction, the problem lies in the fact that the concepts that mathematics deals with rules created by humans and so the axioms that are linked with these conceptsare also created to suit what the concept is intended to demonstrate. Some say that […]