DCSZ TOK Class Blog

Today Jiwon and Joshua presented their presentation.

 I thought Jiwon’s presentation was very good in the way that it incorporated recent world crisis into the TOK context, as it is still fresh in our mind. She also explored the issue regarding Reasoning vs. Emotion, and the examples that she has brought up as supporting evidences are [...]

Sylvia’s presentation was impressive! I thought that Sylvia was very confident, and thus she was delivering her presentation without the use of notes, engaging the audience entirely. Furthermore, her use of personal experiences established a connection between her and the audience, which allowed the audience to be persuaded by her view more easily through [...]

(NOTE: This blog refers  back to the TOK presentation weeks ago.. ^^”)

The first few courageous presenters were Jane, Zi and Aaron, and they’ve revealed to us great insights into their knowledge issues. Jane’s topic was personally most engaging to me, because many of our MYP One World Essays dealt with human’s influential effects [...]

Today I missed the first presentation but I managed to see the tail end of Joshua’s and saw all of Jeffery’s. I thought that Joshua’s generated good debate and had a conclusion. The only problem was he did not really stick to one side or the other but instead stated both sides and left [...]

Last class we watched Cradle and Nana present. I found it pretty funny that the two presentations were on the same topic. Anyway, the topic was definitely interesting. Why do we censor things and who has the right to censor. It goes along with the whole question of authority which comes up again and [...]

We have listened to Cradle and Nana’s presentations today. They were both about censorships. Personally, I am opposed to censorship. I believe I can know whatever it is that I want to know and no one has the right to stop me. I don’t care if it is bad for me or not. I [...]

Last double block TOK class, we had some presentation which I was not ready to present. Many people seems to struggle with giving TOK oral that I find it really hard to achieve good grade with. I need to have more clear mind to talk about my topic and I need to know how [...]

I know that I am writing this very late but really wanted to write about emotion.Emotion is very interesting topic in TOK which relates to also psychology.

Few weeks ago, we talked about emotion during the class. I was very excited that morning to talk  about  emotion in the class but it turn [...]

Which ways of knowing is dominant?

I don’t really understand the meaning of dominant, so I have opened up the dictionary. It sounds like it whether things are more important to know things and most common used to know things.

To answer this question, I think reasoning is the most dominant [...]

On Monday’s lesson, we heard interesting oral presentations from Masami, Jane, and Aaron. One thing I found very interesting about Jane’s presentation was that climate change may be a natural cycle with overall temperature rising and falling between millions of years. This suggests that we shouldn’t worry that much about global warming as we [...]

Today morning we had 3 people actually go up and present their TOK presentations. More people werent ready than the amount that went to present but thats alright, all good things take time. The first person to go was Masami… That brave soldier. Her presentation was very interesting and explained the ways of knowing [...]

On Monday, we had three brave contestants doing their presentations. First was Masami, and I thought that she had a really interesting and good Knowledge Issue regarding decision-making and its ethical concerns. It revolves around personal involvements, and closely tied to the Ways of Knowing. It reminded how I need to have a close [...]

Today was the first day for round two of our oral presentations. First up to present was Masami, and then followed by Jane. Both their presentations kicked off our orals well and set the bar quite high. Then, my name was called, and although I would have preferred more time, I still went up [...]

We began our TOK oral presentations today. Today, Aaron, Jane and Masami presented. Masami’s was quite similar to mine and I realised how much depth my presentation lacked. So, I prayeddddd that mine not be picked today and fortunately, it didn’t! So I am going to dig a little deeper and try to meet [...]

My real life situation for the oral presentation is ‘Tiger Woods’ and infidelity; cheating on your ‘significant others.’  My knowledge issue, hence, is ‘can reason ever overrule strong emotions?’ the progress I have made are quite a bit.

Maybe being emotional is what being human is all about?

“It’s a pretty common belief that [...]

More about Truth

On Monday’s class, we talked more about the three theories, well, one definition and two checking ways about the truth. Mr. Macknight said the one that is called as correspondence theory by van de Lagemaat seems definition of the truth: if something is corresponds to the reality, it is true. Then [...]

Today, I have read a chapter on Emotions and an interesting article on SM who does not fear nor recognize fear. This led me to think, can emotion be localized in our brain? For SM, although controversial, the amygdale was found to be responsible for expressing or recognizing fear. If this is the case, [...]

I’m emotional ;p

A lot of people tell me so.

Is that a good thing? Are emotions obstacles to knowledge or a source of knowledge?

I find emotions just plain annoying at the moment.

I wish I didn’t have a brain.

I know that pain, in the long term, has its own benefits, blah [...]

We started to talk about different theories of truth and we mostly talked about correspondence theory as the definition of truths. We figured out that the other theories are supportive ones that can be used to test the argument and support the correspondence theory. It made more sense to me explaining about those [...]