TOK Presentation

40% of your TOK grade Internally Assessed (by your teachers)

Your opportunity to

shine

TOK Presentation
Your opportunity to be creative, demonstrate insight, explore whatever you want to explore

so long as it is a TOK issue!!

TOK Presentation
Any Topic (so long as it is of the 2nd Order TOK type). 10 minutes (per person) Any format (except reading an essay)
Drama, Film, Debate
Think, what format will entertain and create opportunities for high assessment
(standing in front the room, monotonously reading aloud your
PowerPoint slides is neither)

Past TOK Presentation Titles:

Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? [Language]

Did U.S. astronauts really land on the moon [Politics, History] How Can the Silence of John Cages 433 be Considered Music? [Nature of Art] Why do the French Feel the Need to Preserve Their Language? [Language and Culture] Pluto: The Ex-Planet? [Paradigm shift, transience of scientific knowledge] Is my grafitti art, really ART? [notions of beauty, social norms]

Is Certainty Attainable in the MMR Debate? [Media and Science]

Can a Machine Understand Chinese? [nature of knowledge, behaviour] Jean Charles de Menezes: Can We Trust Eyewitness Testimony? [Sense Perception, Memory, Politics and the Law]

Does Rap Music Promote Violence? [Culture, Art and behaviour]

Can Rugby be artistic [definition of art]

A: Knowledge Issue vs. Real-life Situation

Write this down: The Knowledge Issue I will be exploring today is <insert knowledge issue here>. The Real-Life Situation I will be using to explore that Knowledge Issue is <insert real-life situation here>.

A: Knowledge Issue vs. Real-life Situation

Did U.S. astronauts really land on the moon

BUT, a very interesting Real-Life TOK Possibility!

A: Knowledge Issue vs. Real-life Situation

Not did they land on the moon? But
why do we think they landed why do some think they didnt? how strong do the doubts have to be in order for accepted historical beliefs have to be altered?

B: Treatment
Critical Analysis:
An argument Creativity Logical coherence Focus on single issue, but situating issue in broader context Recognition of possible counter-claims

C: Knowers Perspective
Could any other candidate give the same presentation?
YES? Then your particular perspective has not been demonstrated

No? Then your presentation is distinctively personal. It is distinguishable from all others.

C: Knowers Perspective
Demonstrate significance. Why is the topic youve chosen to study interesting to you?

If it doesnt interest you, it wont be of interest to your examiner.

D: Connections
Various possible perspectives? (not necessarily a counter-argument

Areas of Knowledge
Arts
Human Sciences

The TOK Programme

Ethics

The Knower i.e. YOU

Maths Natural
Sciences

History

Ways of Knowing

Final Advice
You WILL be doing the presentation, So.