Assessment
What counts as a (good) object?
It is deceptively hard to choose good objects for the exhibition. This page looks at what makes a good object and how to scaffold the skills needed to make the right choice. A good object is one whose...
Assessment
What is a ToK Exhibition? Free
The ToK exhibition is the component of the ToK assessment designed primarily (but not exclusively) to test ToK thinking about the Core Theme and the two optional themes in the ToK course. It is an individual...
Assessment
TOK Exhibition
Here are pages devoted to explaining the nature of the ToK Exhibition. These pages give an overview that includes specifics about objects and the 35 prompts. They are intended for teacher use. The ToK...
Assessment
Essay tips 1: Making links
In this, the first of a series of videos on assessment, Ric gives explores the purpose and nature of the ToK essay and shows how the main task of the student is to make clear links - explicit pieces of...
eBook
Giving and accepting reasons for claims
Some knowledge consists in the form of claims about the world. Perhaps much knowledge that we acquire through school is of this form. A claim needs to be justified to be a candidate for knowledge. A justification...
Activities
Human rationality - are we logical machines?
Rationality means, roughly, rules for thinking and acting. The human sciences tend to make background assumptions about human rationality to get started. For example, economics used to assume that human...
Activities
Ethics of AI use Free
Here are some interesting activities that flow from a project by the Asia-Europe foundation (ASEF) ClassNet18 collaboration in which Barbara was a collaborator. They concern the ethics of building AI...
Activities
Does ChatGPT actually know anything?
There has been a lot of chat about ChatGPT - for good reason - it does a good job of appearing to know things. Some have made extravagant claims about what it can do, others have been sceptical. Some...
Blog
When words compete with evidence Free
Scientific knowledge is often considered to speak for itself, as it is grounded in evidence and verified by peer review. Yet, online hate speech targeting scientists suggests that it can be undermined...
Activities
What is truth?
We want knowledge to be true. But there are many different kinds of knowledge. Does this mean that there are many different kinds of truth? To get a grip on these different kinds of knowledge we introduced...