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TOK Curriculum
Knowledge Questions
Core Theme: Knowledge and the Knower
Optional Themes
Areas of Knowledge
12 TOK Concepts
TOK EXHIBITION AND ESSAY
WHO WANTS TO KNOW?
THE 350 LINKED CLASS ACTIVITIES ON ONE ENORMOUS PAGE
Greatest Hits
  • OPTIONAL THEMES
  • 1. KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY
  • 44 orders of magnitude
  • You are the product
  • Chess algorithm—AlphaZero
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Faking it
  • In praise of Wikipedia
  • Video gaming: distraction or medicine?
  • Technomorality
  • Trolley problems and self driving cars
  • Gorillas, robots and personhood
  • AI and academic integrity
  • Existential threat
  • Promethean dreams
  • 2. KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE
  • Beef and Cows
  • Language games
  • Polysemy of Language
  • Induction and Deduction
  • Logical Fallacy
  • In praise of the poetic voice
  • 3. KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS
  • Ten most Pressing World Problems
  • Democracy and informed citizenship
  • Orwellian Newspeak
  • Power and Truth
  • Post-truth?
  • Epistemic justice
  • 4. KNOWLEDGE AND RELIGION
  • Variety of Religious Experience
  • Very persistent meme
  • Religiosity and faith
  • Encounter with radical atheism
  • Zen TOK
  • 5. KNOWLEDGE AND INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES
  • Defining "indigenous"
  • Nacirema
  • Learning from traditional societies
  • Exorcizing cultural relativism
  • Indigenous questions

OPTIONAL THEME:
KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY 
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Who wants to know?
TOK and Metacognitive Possibilities
Smart apes
Who do you think you are?
Squidgy, pinkish, buttery gloop
TOK CURRICULUM
KNOWLEDGE AND THE KNOWER
Starting TOK
Student Knowledge Claims
The Map is not the Territory
Allegory of the Cave
Blind Men and the Elephant
Just a minute!
Knowing that and knowing how
Justified True Belief
Theories of Truth
Good and bad explanations
Instantiation—where is knowledge?
Immense, entropic universe becoming aware of itself
Knowledge evolves
Figs from multiple viewpoints
Interpretation—What's happening?
What do little kids know?
Octopus Intelligence
Sentience Continuum
Feral Children
Active sense perception
What is it like to be a bat?
Unreliability of eyewitness reporting
Intuition
Belief without evidence
Pascal's Wager
Ethics vs. Morality
Apprenticeship in ethics
Saint or serial killer?
Seven Deadly Sins
Deontological demystified
OPTIONAL THEMES
1. KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY
44 orders of magnitude
You are the product
Chess algorithm—AlphaZero
Artificial Intelligence
Faking it
In praise of Wikipedia
Video gaming: distraction or medicine?
Technomorality
Trolley problems and self driving cars
Gorillas, robots and personhood
AI and academic integrity
Existential threat
Promethean dreams
2. KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE
Beef and Cows
Language games
Polysemy of Language
Induction and Deduction
Logical Fallacy
In praise of the poetic voice
3. KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS
Ten most Pressing World Problems
Democracy and informed citizenship
Orwellian Newspeak
Power and Truth
Post-truth?
Epistemic justice
4. KNOWLEDGE AND RELIGION
Variety of Religious Experience
Very persistent meme
Religiosity and faith
Encounter with radical atheism
Zen TOK
5. KNOWLEDGE AND INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES
Defining "indigenous"
Nacirema
Learning from traditional societies
Exorcizing cultural relativism
Indigenous questions
AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE
1. HISTORY
Draw History
History is not what happened
The map that made a nation cry
2. THE HUMAN SCIENCES
Consilience of Knowledge
Remembrance of things past
Asch and Milgram experiments
Physics envy
3. THE NATURAL SCIENCES
Is there a scientific method?
Nature journal
Biological Language Delights
Theory of Ignorance
Nature of science (NOS)
4. MATHEMATICS
Proof
Imagining geometry—a thought experiment!
Ideal Gas Law and the Euler Relation
Mathematical induction
Beguiling with statistics
This Statement is False
Platonists and Formalists
Why is ethics like math and not like math?
5. THE ARTS
Shostakovich 8th String Quartet
Evoked emotions in the visual arts
Picasso's lie
Imagination with constraints
Rembrandt Self Portraits
Duchamp's fountain
The value of Art
AI Art
TOK ENDGAME
TOK Formal Assessment
TOK Exhibition
TOK Essay essentials
TOK Essay strategy
TOK Essay virtuosity
TOK Essay blunders to avoid
TOK Essay satirical poem
Last TOK class
Student feedback
Acknowledgements
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