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[Sasha A]

I have my WOK and my AOK I just don't know how to link them all together! help

[Sandwich]

Well what are your WOK and AOK? And how exactly do you intend to link this topic with Theory of Knowledge/make this into a suitable TOK topic?

[Sasha A]

Real life situation:
-    Rupert Murdoch Case – News of the World Scandal

Knowledge Issues:
-    When is it ethical to hack into people phones just to give information to the public? – Look into the simple model and ‘duty ethics’
-    Was the public consistent in their judgments on the scandal? – why/ why not
-    Can the public and the journalists be at fault of a definitional argument?

Ways of knowing:
-    Reason: why journalists go to the extreme lengths to give readers such information
-    I think it is a combination of:
-    Ignorance,
-    Laziness and
-    Pride: although we like to think that we are open-minded, once we get involved we becoming more interested in being the best by any means possible than really establishing ethical ways of obtaining the truth.
-    The fact is that we cannot rely on reasoning to give us knowledge
-    Reasoning on situation to do with todays’ world, the conclusions of deductive arguments are no more certain than the premises they are based on.
-    Emotion: Reaction to the invasion of privacy
-    Perception: the way the public perceives journalists/ newspaper

Areas of knowledge
-    Ethics: was the scandal ethical
-    Natural Sciences: At what point do we say that it is to much to use to available technology and whether we even have the right to use it
-    Human Sciences: Is it appropriate to uses the technology and do we have the right to know other peoples information – wikileaks (news about the government and politics) vs. information for the public (newspapers)

[MattO]

Those are not Knowledge Issues: you need to have reference to either an AoK or WoK

[Sandwich]

Sasha A, on May 24, 2012 - 11:00, said:

Real life situation:
-    Rupert Murdoch Case – News of the World Scandal

Knowledge Issues:
-    When is it ethical to hack into people phones just to give information to the public? – Look into the simple model and ‘duty ethics’
-    Was the public consistent in their judgments on the scandal? – why/ why not
-    Can the public and the journalists be at fault of a definitional argument?

Ways of knowing:
-    Reason: why journalists go to the extreme lengths to give readers such information
-    I think it is a combination of:
-    Ignorance,
-    Laziness and
-    Pride: although we like to think that we are open-minded, once we get involved we becoming more interested in being the best by any means possible than really establishing ethical ways of obtaining the truth.
-    The fact is that we cannot rely on reasoning to give us knowledge
-    Reasoning on situation to do with todays’ world, the conclusions of deductive arguments are no more certain than the premises they are based on.
-    Emotion: Reaction to the invasion of privacy
-    Perception: the way the public perceives journalists/ newspaper

Areas of knowledge
-    Ethics: was the scandal ethical
-    Natural Sciences: At what point do we say that it is to much to use to available technology and whether we even have the right to use it
-    Human Sciences: Is it appropriate to uses the technology and do we have the right to know other peoples information – wikileaks (news about the government and politics) vs. information for the public (newspapers)

It seems to me that you have misunderstood somewhat the whole idea of the TOK presentation which is to discuss things in the context of TOK. For instance you have misinterpreted what is meant by reason, emotion and perception and are approaching the areas of knowledge from a completely wrong angle when actually you need to be focussing on the ways of knowing and how they interact.

I strongly suggest you read these posts and hopefully you'll realise that you're sort-of doing the equivalent of sitting in an English Literature exam then writing an essay explaining the finer rules of grammar and listing vocabulary. It's completely not what the subject is about. Or sitting in a Spanish B oral exam and explaining about Spanish culture but speaking the whole time in English - completely misinterpreting the idea of it. So in a similar vein, what you're talking about ARE issues but they're not TOK issues and you've somewhat missed the point. Hopefully that analogy makes sense.

Is this a good TOK Presentation title? / How do I pick my Presentation title?!
ToK Presentation Guide

TOK is not a platform to discuss current affairs and interesting issues. TOK is a platform to discuss TOK which you must then somehow relate to an issue but really the point is to talk about the ways of knowing and show you know how they are used.