The ‘Wh’ Questions of TOK Presentation!

P- Preparation P- Presentation A- Assessment

PreparationPresentationAssessment Global Impression

PreparationPresentationAssessment Real life Situation KQ TK PPD ( Planning Document) Presentation Title One Two Three Ten Minutes Twenty Minutes Thirty Minutes Real World TOK World Lectures Interviews Debates Dramatic Skit Role Play Global Impression Internally Assessed Externally Moderated Irrelevant Elementary Basic Satisfactory Very Good Excellent Maximum Ten Marks Thirty Three Percent

TK PPD ( Presentation Planning Document) a)Title of Presentation b)Describe your RLS c)State your Knowledge Question ( KQ) d)Explain the connection between RLS and KQ e)Outline how you intend to develop your presentation f)Show how your conclusions have significance for your RLS and beyond.

What is global impression marking? The method of assessing the Presentation in TOK judges each piece of work in relation to written descriptions of performance and not in relation to the work of other students.

Knowledge Question ( KQ) ?

KQs - Criteria a)Open-ended. b)Couched in terms of TOK vocabulary and concepts. c)About knowledge. d)Comparative - explores the relationship between WOK and/or AOK.

KQs - Criteria A KQ is always about knowledge, is open and is general. It should use TOK vocabulary, not the vocabulary related to the real life situation.

a)Does art have the power to change the world? b)To what extent should photographers involve themselves with their subjects? c)What is the role of emotion and reason in the arts? d)To what extent can the knowledge of mathematics influence the arts? e)To what extent are historical facts more certain than historical interpretations? f)‘Those who create art have a moral duty.’ Do you agree?

a)Real life situation b)Ways of Knowing ( WOK) c)Areas of Knowledge ( AOK) d)Your own perspective e)What others might think ( different perspective) Gender, Race, Geographical location, Religion/philosophical position, Historical era, Language, Cultural tradition, Socio-economic position, Educational experiences, etc.

State your Knowledge Question ( KQ)

Real Life Situation ( RLS) Knowledge Questions ( KQs) ( Recognised) Knowledge Questions ( KQs) ( Recognised) Knowledge Question/s developed Extraction Progression Application Other RLS Real World TOK World

a)Find a real life situation to use as a basis for exploration. b)Generate an explicit Knowledge Question (KQ) c)Develop this KQ by exploring multiple associates issues/questions that arise from it. d)Explore the application of the central KQ on real life situation.

Has the student: a)described clearly the real-life situation that forms the launching point for the presentation? b)extracted and clearly formulated a single knowledge question from the real-life situation? c)identified and explored various perspectives in relation to the knowledge question, and deployed examples and arguments in the service of this exploration? d)related the findings of and insights from the analysis back to the chosen real-life situation and showed how they might be relevant to other real-life situations?

a)Who assesses the presentation? b)How many can present? c)What is the time limit? d)How much it is worth? e)What is the maximum score? f)How is the presentation submitted? Quick Questions:

Description of Real-life situation I was watching an episode of the popular American sitcom ‘Friends’. In this particular episode Mark and Maze have a debate about the theory of evolution. Continued……

from the previous slide Mark who firmly believes in the theory of evolution and is quite shocked that Maze even questions the truth in that theory and rejects it on what he considers to be flimsy grounds. State your KQ?

1)Perception ( Sense Perception) 2)Emotion 3)Reason 4)Language 5)Faith 6)Imagination 7)Memory 8)Intuition Ways of Knowing ( WOK) PERL FIMI

1)History 2)Ethics 3)Religious Knowledge 4)Mathematics 5)Indigenous Knowledge 6)The Natural Sciences 7)The Human Sciences 8)The Arts Areas of Knowledge ( AOK) HERMI TTT

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