1. TOK Presentations
What do you need to do?

2. Turn in your Project in the tray on the table.
Today we talk about what exactly a TOK presentation looks like.

3. What Is the presentation For?
To show the connection between the “real world” and “TOK world”
How do TOK concepts help us better analyze and understand real life situations?
You must examine knowledge – analyzing real-life situations through the TOK lens in order to answer knowledge questions.

5. Picking a Real-lIfe Situation
Anything that actually happens, not hypotheticals or made up situations.
Anything of international, national, state, local/community, or personal interest.

6. Picking a Real-Life Situation
HAS TO BE RELATED TO KNOWLEDGE
You can be creative about this, but it has to be clear and obvious to the audience how your situation relates to your knowledge question.

7. Picking a Real-Life Situation
Something interesting, that makes you think, that you care about.
Not just a moral debate!!!! Can be controversial, but can’t just be trying to explain why one side of an ethical debate is better than another

8. Writing your Knowledge Question
Knowledge Question must be…
…about knowledge.
…use TOK vocabulary.
…RELEVANT to the Real-life situation you chose (as well as OTHER real-life situations).
…developed in the presentation through arguments, examples, and evidence
…answered in the course of your presentation.

9. Developing your Knowledge Question
How will you do this?
Present different perspectives on the issues/ideas of knowledge mentioned in your question
Evidence and examples (quotes from experts/research, different WOK and/or AOK)
You will answer the question
Relate the question to multiple real-life situations
Address the implications (a.k.a. significance of your question and what it says about knowledge)

10. Things to Avoid
Rea-life Situation (RLS) is not relevant to knowledge or TOK exploration.
Too much description of the real-life situation.
Poor knowledge question; no knowledge question.
Knowledge question is not related to RLS.

11. Things to Avoid
Ignoring different perspectives. These are not simply unsupported assertions of different personal opinions, but are grounded in evidence.
Failure to examine the implications of the knowledge question, a.k.a. why does this matter?
Knowledge question is not applied to other real-life situations.
No other follow up questions are asked about the Knowledge question.
No analysis or argument.
Lack of evidence.

12. Things to Avoid
Only arguing about ethics – i.e. “Is this thing morally right or wrong? Let me tell you!” If you do a presentation on ethics it has to be about knowledge in ethics.

13. Features of a Good Presentation
Thought provoking real-life situation
Well developed knowledge question
Exploring knowledge
Different perspectives
Evidence and counterarguments
Relating knowledge question to other RLSs/showing the significance of the knowledge question/issues.
Why does this matter? Why should we care?

14. Other tips Be confident!! Fake it til you make it
Don’t cram too many words onto any slides!
Memorize and rehearse
Images/videos are okay but be careful
Be confident!!
Fake it til you make it

15. The Rubric What are the different levels? What is required of each?
What distinguishes a great presentation from a bad one or even an okay one?