1. IBMA Summer Academy 2010

2. All handouts and other materials available at:

3. What is TOK?

4. Ways of Knowing

5. Areas of Knowledge

6.  An investigation into the limits and capabilities, the liabilities and assets of our Ways of Knowing AND  An investigation into the mechanisms, both technological and procedural, within each of the Areas of Knowledge that allow us to maximize the assets and minimize the liabilities of our Ways of Knowing. What is TOK?

7. The TOK Curriculum

8. http://peernet.lbpc.ca/tok/asewell/tokdiagram.htm

9. Potential Knowers: Arts Artist Receiver Student Natural Science Scientist Student Human Science Scientist Student

10. Potential Knowers: History Historian Receiver Student Math Mathematician User of math to solve problems Student Ethics Ethicist Practitioner of a field with formal ethical principles Student

11. Central Focus  What are the obstacles to making knowledge within this subject area?  What are the mechanisms by which we endeavor to overcome those obstacles? Procedural Technological

12. Other Considerations:  What are the parameters of the “area” of knowledge? (What IS the content?)  Is the content of the Area of Knowledge invented or discovered?  What constitutes a fact within the Area of Knowledge?  What are the primary means by which truth is established?  To what degree is certainty attainable?

13. The Foundation for Critical Thinking

14. Elements of Critical Thought

15. Involving The Rest of the Staff  Align the elements of critical thought with the scoring criteria for your IB assessments.  Teach students the vocabulary and framework of the elements of critical thought.  Evaluate student work in terms of the elements of critical thought.

16. “The Logic of…” Framework  Purpose  Question  Information  Inference  Concepts  Assumptions  Implications  Point of View

17. Involving The Rest of the Staff  Consider their own subject in TOK terms (as students will have to do)  Compare the framework for their subject with those of other subjects  Convey to students basic information about the framework—content, values, formal practices.

18. A Revised Framework for TOK

19. Sample: Ethics

20. For Use with TOK Students:  Complete chart for individual subjects  Complete chart comparing/contrast ing two or more subjects

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