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First assignment, 19 August 2010

Listen to the first episode of Brett Hall’s TOKCast podcast, introducing TOK in his own inimitable Australian way.

You can find the podcast in three different places:

http://web.me.com/tokteacher/tokcast/Podcast/Podcast.html (scroll down to the first episode) On DragonNet In my public folder, here: http://public.me.com/ericmacknight Path: Audio / TOK Podcasts / TOKCast (Brett Hall)

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Brett Hall’s ToKCasts

Brett Hall teaches TOK—in Australia, judging by his accent—and has produced a series of podcasts introducing key TOK concepts. They are designed to be useful to students, and you might find them very helpful. You can find the links here: http://web.me.com/tokteacher/tokcast/Podcast/Podcast.html.

His FAQ page is pretty amusing, too.

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7 January 2010

Today in class we watched a TEDTalk video by Richard Dawkins entitled, “The Universe Is Queerer Than We Can Suppose”. If you missed it, you can watch it online here:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_dawkins_on_our_queer_universe.html

Friday’s class is cancelled so that students can work on other things. Next week we will begin on the TOK oral presentations.

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September 24, 2009

Today we read a brief essay on argumentation from the University of North Carolina, and then the rest of the lesson was used to work on TOK essays, etc.

For Friday’s lesson, please come to AS307 to continue working on your various essays in progress.

Reminders about the TOK portion of the Gr. 12 [...]

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Most of my WordPress blogs have been hacked by the worm that is running wild through even slightly out-of-date WP installations, so if weird things are happening when you try to read or click on links, please accept my apologies. I’m working on it!

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TOK Blogging

At the end of each week’s TOK lessons I will write a post that briefly lists the week’s topics and activities. You will be required to write a comment on each of these weekly posts in which you discuss some aspect of that week’s lesson and demonstrate that you were listening, participating, and thinking.

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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."

—Steven Wright

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