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Pedagogical Questions
AI and the competence illusion
How do we know that we are competent at something? Ease of performance? Efficiency - big results for little effort? Feeling of flow - that someone is doing it for us? Inability to recall our thought processes?...
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CAS and TOK Free
The strongest links between TOK and CAS come from turning a knowledge question raised in class into something students do about it, then bringing the experience back to TOK as reflection. Under the current...
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Nobel Prize Activity Free
The best TOK lessons use real-world materials and recent examples. And in Nobel season, what better way to celebrate than by showing students how relevant TOK is in the Nobel Prize world? I hope this...
Assessment
May 2027 Reading List Free
As work on unpacking the May 2027 TOK prescribed titles gathers pace, I have put together a reading list for you and your students. These articles offer perspectives that may help students develop their...
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Theory choice and paradigm shifts
While the Natural Sciences are highly regarded for the quality of knowledge they produce, it is remarkable how rapidly scientific knowledge can change. This page examines how we decide which theory is...
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What is knowledge? Free
ToK is about knowledge. We use knowledge every day to do things in the world. It is something that we human beings make. We encounter a huge diversity of knowledge in our lives from the formal subjects...
Assessment
Language for the ToK essay and exhibition
You might be writing the ToK essay (or exhibition) in your second, third, of fourth language. That is OK. Examiners or moderators are not marking your language. But you must try to be clear. This might...
Activities
Asking for and giving Reasons
These activities are designed to explore the process of giving reasons to justify claims. Most of the time we justify claims by making other claims - what we call 'giving reasons'. What makes a reason...
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Knowledge Framework Free
The Knowledge Framework (KF) is designed to help you organise your thinking in ToK. It is a way of linking and comparing different parts of the ToK course, themes and areas of knowledge. It is also a...
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The methods of Sociology and Anthropology
This page examines the methods and tools employed by anthropologists and sociologists. It seems that human society is not the kind of thing we can do experiments on. What methods can be used instead?...