TOK and the Approaches to Teaching and Learning by Gabriela Salatino https://padlet.com/mariagabrielasalatino1/rkc4hhkr1x8z1oac Rice - October 2023 en-us 2023-10-10 18:28:59 UTC 2025-04-24 13:20:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mariagabrielasalatino1/rkc4hhkr1x8z1oac/wish/2740551724
Dina and Ryan

Section A

  • Students choose 3 artifacts to display in a museum to explain the most significant moments of the 21st century
  • Connects to thinking skills, communication skills and social skills
  • Students must analyze the impact of a certain artifact on politics/social life/language/etc and evaluate which artifacts carry the greatest impact/value; students must work collaboratively and communicate their ideas clearly to each other and the whole class through posing inquiry questions and informal reflections of conceptual understanding
  • Example product: pictures of 9/11 memorial, an iPhone, and a face mask (for Covid)--students would explain their reasoning as a presentation

Section B

Students trace euphemisms and dysphemisms in a George W Bush speech and The Nation article, and then create their own text with euphemisms/dysphemisms and discuss the effect of their language choices.

This shows teaching based on inquiry, as students seek to answer the question: How can we know if language is intended to deceive us? (knowledge and language via History)

This would also connect to teaching focused on conceptual understanding, as the focus on language and its impact is maintained throughout the activity.


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In this lesson, students are introduced to the broader scope of the theme. Then, we have an activity at the end (seen in image) where they think they are just examining a claim and counterclaim. This is a bait and switch. Some students will have a stronger reaction, and in some ways, an intuitive rejection of Harris (unique to my demographic perhaps) and then when we take it up and discuss, we really realize how our intuitive, emotional knowledge affect our judgements. Here, students must apply thinking skills to evaluate the different perspectives AND they have to recognize their own methods, perspectives and justification. This is part of the discussion we have post activity where students also foster their communication skills. ]]> 2023-10-10 19:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mariagabrielasalatino1/rkc4hhkr1x8z1oac/wish/2740556858 A) Knowledge and Religion https://padlet.com/mariagabrielasalatino1/rkc4hhkr1x8z1oac/wish/2740562451 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1i14ijdkgszF5qaNpKtVwn3WU1Yv-6KdGoHkbM1hZBfI/edit?usp=sharing

This image represents an activity where students have to listen to 2 perspectives about religion. We would then take up our answers as a class in small groups at first, then together. I knew that some students would have an intuitive/emotional reaction to one of the speakers. In the small group discussions it was revealed why some reacted as they did, and then they were able to see how that influenced their perspective and answer. Then, as a class, we communicated (respectfully) why some aligned with one and not the other, but also examined the methods of justification used to come to a stance. So skills: thinking and communication.

--Amanda Comber / Brian Vats-Fournier]]> 2023-10-10 19:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mariagabrielasalatino1/rkc4hhkr1x8z1oac/wish/2740562451 TOK & Approaches to Teaching & Learning (Ellie & Shaymus) sshalman https://padlet.com/mariagabrielasalatino1/rkc4hhkr1x8z1oac/wish/2740566924 2023-10-10 19:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mariagabrielasalatino1/rkc4hhkr1x8z1oac/wish/2740566924 B) Technology and Knowledge https://padlet.com/mariagabrielasalatino1/rkc4hhkr1x8z1oac/wish/2740567245 This piece illustrates how a document encourages students to Interpret and seek how the Evidence is used.

These concepts are applicable to other Areas of Knowledge and Themes.

Concepts:  Interpretation / Power / Culture / Evidence

Interpretation by people with different degrees of power within a set of contemporary believers of a specific religious text or cultural asset.

How does increased individual practitioner access to a sacred text through the technological advance of printing technology (the printing press) influence the historical development of a religion or a culture? 

To what extent is this transformation of a society patterned similarly to the effect of other technologies that increase the speed and density of the transmission of knowledge. 

-Amanda Comber / Brian Vats-Fournier
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