Unit planners
Unit planner - Knowledge and Technology
The following unit planner is based on the lesson plans from Knowledge and Technology. This is a model unit planner to help you adapt your own unit plans in order to meet IB requirements for the DP. The...
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The Herald of Free Enterprise
On 6th March 1987 the roll-on-roll-off car ferry The Herald of Free Enterprise capsized shortly after departing Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium. 193 passengers and crew lost their lives. In this activity...
Unit planners
Unit planner - Core Theme: Knowledge and the Knower
The following unit planner is based on the lesson plans that Activities in the Core Theme. This is a model unit planner to help you adapt your own unit plans in order to meet IB requirements for the DP....
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Medals for Machines Free
Can machines know mathematics? Is the fact that they solve mathematical problems producing knowledge? Can the progress of AI machines change the future of mathematical knowledge? In this discussion activity,...
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The art of deep questioning in ToK
Here is a reworking in English of a chapter written by one of us for a collection on on pedagogy for gifted students. It takes the line that the key to differentiated teaching and learning lies in the...
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Weasel words in ToK - learning opportunities
There are some words in ToK that give students no end of trouble. I call these weasel words. Students have trouble with them for a variety of reasons, but most common is that they simply assume that the...
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Liberty or no Liberty? Free
What happens when art and politics collide? Art, often valued for its freedom of expression, can also spark controversy. For example, it may challenge patriotic symbols and touch a political nerve. Such...
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Guiding principles for use of gen AI in ToK
Generative AI has created something of a storm in both schools and universities. It has had a polarising effect on opinion, pitting AI evangelists who think that it should be embraced unconditionally,...
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Practical uses for gen AI in the ToK classroom
This page is parallel to the page Guiding principles for use of gen AI in ToK . Whereas in the other page we discuss the principles for gen AI use in ToK (and elsewhere), on this page, we offer practical...
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Power posing - Fake it till you make it? Free
What if simply changing the way you stand could change the way you feel? That is the idea behind ‘power posing’, the claim that adopting confident body language can boost your sense of control, reduce...