Using language to explore

This new section has been devised to give more prominence to teaching fundamental concepts of how language functions. It combines the main body of existing material to support the teaching of Language aspects of Theory of Knowledge, with a selection of material from the old programme’s ‘Communication & media’ Topic.

The common ground of all this material is to do with how we use language to 'make sense' of the world. We 'make sense' using language on our own account, thinking for ourselves ... and the media 'make sense' for us, through the vast communications industry that constructs a bewildering range of alternative worlds. Have a look at the page  Language & TOK  to see the idea of 'making sense' developed further...

Internet-based research

Most material presented here will be based on research on the internet. This is deliberate, because the internet ...

• provides a vast range of material, so topics can be viewed from many different angles
• makes available up-to-date material on issues of contemporary relevance
• encourages active student research, thus developing essential skills of enquiry, discrimination and selection
• should provide clues to developing systems of internet-based teaching 
• ... and makes for a more vivid, varied, interactive website !

I am using my researches on the internet to develop procedures of research that can be used to guide students when they do the same kind of thing - certain pages explain and emphasise these techniques. 

So, consult  Computer Verbs ; and also the page Internet tasks , for an overview of procedures for using the internet in the classroom.

Selected Pages