TOK II (Class of 2022)

  Sorry I can't be here today.  Please start working on your Human Sciences End-of-Unit Blog Response.  (Instructions on GClassroom.)  See you Thursday!

  Please welcome UWG Sociologist and friend of the show, Dr. Neema Noori. Ongoing Concerns: EE: Revised 3000-word draft DUE 8/30 TOK Exhibition: Submit your Objects & Claims draft to Google Classroom Work toward drafting your Exhibit Justifications CAS: Blog Due 8/29

  Aims & Objectives to encourage students to reflect on the central question, “How do we know that?”, and to recognize the value of asking that question demonstrate TOK thinking through the critical examination of knowledge questions identify and explore links between knowledge questions and the world around us Key Questions: How do empathy and imagination help us to understand other perspectives? How do the patterns of thought developed in TOK shape our understanding of the world around us? Agenda: Mindful Monday Calendar Time Mindfulness Options: Guided meditation Highs & Lows TOK Exhibition Peer Discussion: Questions & Objects 1-on-1s with Brewer (for those who need it) Next Step: Objects and Claims (See Google Classroom) Ongoing Concerns: EE: Revised 3000-word draft DUE 8/30 TOK Exhibition: Submit your Objects & Claims draft to Google Classroom Work toward drafting your Exhibit Justifications CAS: Blog Due 8/29

  Aims & Objectives to encourage students to reflect on the central question, “How do we know that?”, and to recognize the value of asking that question. to prompt students to consider the importance of values, responsibilities and ethical concerns relating to the production, acquisition, application and communication of knowledge. Key Questions To what extent are the methods used in the human sciences limited by the ethical considerations involved in studying human beings? (Ethics) Should key events in the historical development of the human sciences always be judged by the standards of their time? (Ethics) How might the language used in polls and questionnaires influence the conclusions that are reached? (methods and tools) What forms of protection against research error and bias are available to human scientists? (Perspectives) Agenda Finish "Wolf Pack" Discussion Case Study: Milgram's Obedience Study https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBDkJ-Nc3Ig Activity: designing ...

Key Questions What are the main difficulties that human scientists encounter when trying to provide explanations of human behavior? (Scope) Is it possible to eliminate the effect of the observer in the pursuit of knowledge in the human sciences? (Perspectives) What assumptions underlie the methods used in the human sciences? (Methods/Tools) Agenda Soft and Hard Sciences Jared Diamond Discussion Determining Dominance in a Wolf Pack Ongoing Concerns: Revised 3000-word EE Draft DUE 8/30 Blog Conversion Debacle Looks like Wordpress might be our best bet. Exporting your blog from Google Blogger Setting up a Wordpress Blog Importing your old blog content into Wordpress

  Meet in the Media Center for CAS!

Key Questions: How does the use of numbers, statistics, graphs and other quantitative instruments affect the way knowledge in the human sciences is valued? (Methods & Tools) Is the role of the human scientist only to describe what the case is or also to make judgements about what should be the case? (Ethics) Agenda: Our Statistical Exile Activity The Normal Curve:  99% Invisible : "On Average" Further Resources: 99% Invisible : "Invisible Women"  - explores the bias in data science and design that has resulted from the exclusion of women from many studies and statistical data sets. Aubrey Clayton "How Eugenics Shaped Statistics" - explores the history of statistics as a science, the racist ideas of its founders, and the ways that these ideas may be 'baked in' to the science itself Daniel Cleather, "Is Statistics Racist?" - more about the historical link between statistics and eugenics Radiolab Presents: G - This limited series from ...

Agenda:  Mindful Monday Calendar Check-in Box Breathing Exhibition Review the Requirements for the Exhibition, as well as the assessment instrument Read and discuss some released items Return to questions, make a final decision, and consider a THEME: Knowledge and the Knower Knowledge and Language Knowledge and Technology Review deadlines Homework: Consider the relationship between Natural and Human Sciences, the two experiments presented last class, and your own experiences.  Then, respond to ONE of the questions in GClassroom in a thoughful 1-2 paragraph response. TOK Exhibition: Identify Objects

 Key Questions: How do we decide whether a particular discipline should be regarded as a human science? (Scope) Is it possible to discover laws of human behavior in the same way that the natural sciences discover laws of nature? (Scope) Agenda: Finish Object Practice Quick Talk: Natural Sciences vs. Human Sciences Atmospheric vs. Group Pressure Homework: We will return to Exhibition discussions on Monday! Spend some time thinking about your in-process exhibition this weekend.  Look over the Exhibition guide and the assessment instrument.