Project week CAS: LO3
Here is the progress my group and I have made. It has taken me one step closer to achieving learning outcome 3: Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience!
TOK Grand Paradigms Assignment
Paradigms can be described as the lens (shaped through empirical evidence, biology, and past experiences), that helps interpret the world around us, allowing us to create our version of a situation that we hold true to ourselves. It is easy for us to get wrapped up inside our paradigms as 1. Our paradigms are invented […]
TOK Assignment: Culture and Paradigms
In many cases, it is compulsory to perform this daily burdensome ritual before leaving the house. The ritual requires the slaughtering of a pig – where elements of pig fat are taken and mixed with minerals extracted from iron ores and combined with pigments of squeezed juices from coloured fruit or even chlorophyll. Using a […]
TOK Assignment: Privileges
I think the basis of the article on ‘privilege’ stems from hidden paradigms. A crucial facet of these paradigms is that it remains hidden unless we have a reason to unlock it. I saw it for myself on my Instagram feed last month – endless black squares shared by friends – with repeating captions of […]
my tragic war cry;
this nation, fabricated upon their broken spine, yet still they gait on fragmented glass. besought for their final draught, before the lynching with a knee. “THUGS” you, merely afraid, “looting starts, shooting starts” to face the monster of your own making. S.R This is a poem I wrote for my uncle Felix, an African American […]
TOK Assignment: Paradigms
Try to write a Conceptual Understanding that you think emerges from this. You might like to use nouns such as story, sense-making, information, narrative, perceptions, construction, interpretation, subjectivity, reliability valid, truth, explanation, paradigm evidence. Explain your CU with reference to the River Boat Story: I think the concept of a paradigm is subjective. We are […]
EA Interview with Mrs Ambiga
Dato Ambiga Sreenivasan: I think obtaining this interview was one of the challenges I faced during this engagement activity. Especially considering Malaysia’s current political upheaval, it was difficult to get in contact with Ambiga. There is an inversely proportional relationship between the rate of corruption and transparency, with Malaysia becoming increasingly more opaque and corruption […]
TOK assignment: Reasoning and Perception
Write a blog post giving one real-life example (different to ones we discussed in class) that you think makes an important point about reasoning/perception. Please explain your thoughts on your example relies on issue of : reason, bias, perception, narrative, interpretation, fact, truth, evidence, certainty, any AOK, any WOK, etc (or other TOK issues) Attempting […]
EA Interview with Mr R
Stage 3 of the story: Analyzing the success rate of NGO’s work through an interview with a Journalist.