CPD: Embedding TOK into Subject Teaching by VINANIE WIJESOMA

vwijesoma — 2024-11-20 22:00:36 UTC

Provide an example of how you could integrate TOK into one of your DP lessons that may support our students with either the 'Exhibition' or 'Essay'.

vwijesoma — 2025-04-04 02:08:03 UTC

Select a specific 'object' from your subject.
Which IA prompt could this object connect to?
Link to IA Prompt: (i) From which unit could this object be drawn from? (ii) How does this object link to the IA prompt?

vwijesoma — 2025-04-04 02:13:36 UTC

Select one of the PTs from May 2025.
Provide one specific example from your subject that helps address the PT.

DP Econ: 'Brexit bus' (2016)

vwijesoma — 2025-04-08 23:44:29 UTC

Object: A campaign bus used by 'Vote Leave' in 2016, including by future PM Boris Johnson.

IA Prompt 10: What challenges are raised by the dissemination and/or communication of knowledge?

Link to IA prompt: Students can learn about this when studying Unit 4.4 on common markets. It can be used to show how the number communicated here was misleading to the public.

DP Econ: Philips curve

vwijesoma — 2025-04-09 23:34:43 UTC

PT5: To what extent do you agree with the claim “all models are wrong, but some are useful” (attributed to George Box)? Discuss with reference to mathematics and one other area

of knowledge.

Connects to PT5: It is 'wrong' in the sense that it did not account for stagflation in the 1970s. It is 'useful' in the sense that it provides policymakers a choice of unemployment and inflation.

DP Econ: Example

vwijesoma — 2025-04-16 23:20:45 UTC

Daniel T

2025-04-17 11:52:07 UTC

32. What makes a good explanation?

What is the (exact) purpose of using an oscilloscope? What do we define as exact?

DP Math - Nabila, Swetha & Anthony

nabila_fariha — 2025-04-17 11:53:15 UTC

Imaginary Numbers & the Complex Plane
Prompt 30: What role does imagination play in producing knowledge about the world?
(i) Unit 1 - Numbers and Algebra (ii) The plane of numbers is expanded to the imaginary/complex plane to give meaning to the unsolvable. This is also how the concept of zero and negative numbers came into existance.

Language B

2025-04-17 11:55:43 UTC

Prompt 14

does some knowlege belong only to particular communities of knowers?

ESS and TOK

2025-04-17 11:58:32 UTC

Does our knowledge depend on the interaction of other knowers?

Language B

mpombal — 2025-04-17 12:01:36 UTC

Language B

Prompt 14:

Does some knowledge belong only to particular communities of knowers?

Unit : Identities - Traditions

Particle physics and space exploration

2025-04-17 12:09:29 UTC

3. How can we reconcile the relentless drive to pursue knowledge with the finite resources we have

available? Discuss with reference to the natural sciences and one other area of knowledge.

Lower and upper limit of instruments of measurement will limit the level of knowledge we can acquire.

4. Do the ever-improving tools of an area of knowledge always result in improved knowledge?

cmusungay1 — 2025-04-17 12:15:08 UTC

Discuss with reference to two areas of knowledge.

In Psychology we are currently exploring the positive and negative impacts of digital media advancement on cognition. For example, the Google Effect by Sparrow. People make less effort to remember knowledge if they know they can access it later, impacting cognitive process of encoding information to the long term memory.