Knowledge and the Knower

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 Welcome to your first TOK Journal.  The focus for our first journal enter is Knowledge and The Knower.


Due date for the first journal entry is .

The goal of this assignment is for you to think about TOK ideas outside of class and write down those thoughts. Doing this will help you gain a mastery of the ideas and approaches of the class and help you communicate your ideas through writing which can be difficult in a class like this. 

A journal entry should be based on a concrete, real life situation (RLS). A RLS can be a response to a personal experience, a topic learned about in school (outside of TOK), a current event, or some form of media (TV show, movie, book, artwork, etc.). This doesn’t necessarily have to be something that happened to you. Your decision about what to write about is up to you.


In your response, you should: 

  • Briefly explain the RLS that you are responding to.

  • Identify the relevant knowledge question-you may choose from the following:


  1. How can we evaluate whether we know as much as we think we know?
  2. What is the difference between knowledge, belief and opinion?
  3. How can we evaluate if something is true?
  4. Do we have a moral responsibility to know certain things about the world?

  • Discuss your thoughts and ideas on that question.

  • Discuss the connections to TOK. You can discuss the implications of your thoughts or talk about perspective, culture, the definitions of truth, knowledge, or belief, or reflections on the a knowledge community you are a part of. Choose a key concept to connect to.

  • Connect your discussion back to your real life situation.


Rubric

20-18-All aspects of the assignment were met with a high level of personal engagement. Thoughtfully and thoroughly completed. Work had well-developed connections and discussions of issues related to TOK. Appropriately worded and discussed knowledge question

17-16-Student met the basic expectations of the assignment. Student did not develop or discuss strong connections to the class.

Knowledge question may not have been appropriately worded or discussed


14-15-Did not meet all requirements to a satisfactory degree or may have left out part of the assignment. 

Discussion may have been superficial.

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