tok quiz 1

ib learner attributes

inquirers - curiousity

knowledgable - understanding

thinkers - analyze

communicators - expressive

principled - have values

open-minded - not limiting thinking

caring - empathy

risk-taker - approach uncertainty

balanced - equal amounts

reflective - considering the world

⭐STEP - the tok framework

scope - breadth and depth

tools & methods - surveys, microscopes, etc.

ethics - important for what’s the right thing to do

perspectives - everybody has different ones

epistemology - how we know what we know

• TOK isn’t a philosophy course!!

  • it relates to real life!

⭐PCDC - core theme → knowledge and the knower

personal reflection - on our own knowledge & role of our own perspectives

critical thinking - of beliefs and ideas

discerning the truth - ways to decide what is true

constructing knowledge - methods

ways of knowing - empirical data, logic & reasoning

⭐TRIPLe - five optional themes

technology

religion

indigenous people

politics

language

five compulsory subjects - aoks

basic core subjects

history

arts

human sciences

natural sciences

mathematics

⭐PC PROJECTIVE - 12 concepts when answering a knowledge question

perspective

certainty

power

responsibility

objectivity

justification

evidence

culture

truth

interpretation

values

explanation

knowledge questions - about knowledge, ways of knowing

• scope, methods, etc

answers are contestable, ambiguous, uncertain, and rarely definitive

• realize the scope of knowledge

• role of ethics

• language skills

KQs are general, open-ended, and comparative

• how can we know…