Activities
Information Journeys I
These activities are designed to explore the concepts of information, data, and knowledge in a concrete context. What journey must information go through in order to become knowledge? We use examples...
Unit planners
Unit planner - Knowledge and Politics
The following unit planner is based on the lesson plans from Knowledge and Politics. This is a model unit planner to help you adapt your own unit plans in order to meet IB requirements for the DP. The...
Activities
Plato's cave and generative AI
Lucy Gill-Simmon is the Associate Dean for education and student experience in the Faculty of Business and Law at Royal Holloway, University of London. In her job. then, she has much experience of how...
Unit planners
Unit planner - Natural Sciences
The following unit planner is based on the lesson plans from Natural Sciences. This is a model unit planner to help you adapt your own unit plans in order to meet IB requirements for the DP. The information...
Unit planners
Unit planner - Human Sciences
The following unit planner is based on the lesson plans from Human Sciences. This is a model unit planner to help you adapt your own unit plans in order to meet IB requirements for the DP. The information...
eBook
AI and the story metaphor
What do you do if you have in your possession a priceless scroll that could potentially change our understanding of ancient history and philosophy? But there is one problem: the scroll is burnt through...
Activities
Fake news and information warfare
We live in a world where we are constantly bombarded with information and it is sometimes difficult to differentiate what is true and what is not; this task is not made easier with the advent of generative...
Assessment
Linking objects to the prompt
The pages in this chapter have emphasised the key idea that the exhibition is about linking objects to the prompt. A link consists in two distinct items, say an aspect of an object in its knowledge situation,...
Activities
AI and the arts
It is fascinating how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with art nowadays. AI has opened up new possibilities for creativity, allowing machines to generate artwork that can rival or surprise human...
Activities
Knowledge, representations, and reality
This is an activity that can take place early on in the unit on the core theme. It explores the idea that some a common kind of knowledge is a representation of reality: a simplified picture of the world produced...