Activities
Maps and knowledge
This is a fun and engaging introduction to Theory of Knowledge that only requires a sheet of paper, a pencil, and your brain. It’s designed to get you thinking in new ways and to spark the kind of questions...
Activities
Playing the world of mathematics
Some mathematicians are engaged in maths for its own sake not for any practical benefit that it makes to our everyday lives. These are pure mathematicians. In these activities we consider the knowledge...
Routes through the course
Routes through Mathematics
This page covers different possible routes through the area of knowledge Mathematics. We have provided a collection of activities on this site - too many for a class to be able to do all of them in the...
Activities
The Myers-Briggs test - is this human science?
These activities are a good introduction to the human sciences, largely because they highlight some of the challenges they face. One of the challenges is that the human sciences concern things that are...
Blog
Benin Bronzes returned Free
During colonial times, many cultural artefacts were looted from their rightful owners, some with good intentions of saving them from war destructions, some simply to get rich or have something exotic...
Start here: Teachers
Pedagogical Principles of the IBDP Lesson Ideas
When planning the student activities for the course, we planned them with the Approaches to Teaching in mind. If you want to learn more about the core pedagogical principles of the TOK lessons ideas,...
eBook
Weasel words: subjective and objective
Arguably, the two words that give the most trouble to students in ToK are the words subjective and objective. Students do tend to say rather bizarre things about these words - often because they have...
Blog
Are Large Language Models knowledgeable? Free
There is a lot of chatter about LLMs such as Gemini and ChatGPT. Some people are excited by the potential of these tools to take the drudgery out of some human jobs. Some think that these tools can actually...
eBook
The Notebook Metaphor
So many students reach for the 'justified, true, belief' definition for knowledge in ToK. They are not wrong of course, there are many examples of knowledge that is belief-like. But the risk is that we...
eBook
Generative AI and knowledge
There have been many bold claims made about the knowledge capabilities of large language models such as ChatGPT, and Copilot. Indeed there is something of a cottage industry devoted to devising new tasks...