The Theory of Knowledge—a core element of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme—is a course in epistemology and practical philosophy. By examining short texts (including but not limited to local and world issues, philosophy, history and its perspectives, and scientific research) and the knowledge issues they contain and inspire, you will gain the skills necessary to analyze knowledge claims, their underlying assumptions, and their implications.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Please Join the Faculty...
...in our summer reading. Here is one of the articles we're reading this summer, in anticipation of your return. The author, Mark Prensky, sees technology as becoming an "extension of our brains; it's a new way of thinking." In what ways do you see this in your own learning, your own lives? What ideas in the article ring true to you? Which seem less applicable, obvious, or other? Are there ways you would appreciate seeing this approach implemented at SBS? How and why? Before you sit down to dinner on Sunday, please answer these questions and others that the article raises for you. Along the way, share two or more Knowledge Questions extracted from the text and your relationship to its ideas.
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