Is anyone willing to help me? I'll owe you lots of my gratitude ><

[ThisIsMe98]

Hi guys, I have been struggling with theory of knowledge ever since I joined the IB school. My first year in DP is almost coming to an end but my TOK presentation is not good. I hope I have someone to help give me feedback on my presentation ideas and structure for my second TOK presentation. I had to post it up here because I don't have any seniors to ask from since it's a new school here and IB isn't so popular around here. I would really appreciate your help. I will always try my best to do my part, I just need feed backs since my TOK teacher rarely cared about me. He often told me to ask for feed backs but he would say he is busy and forget about it and I had to wait in his outside office several times. I get that my teacher isn't supposed to help me in most things but we rarely get to discuss about ideas which I saw from the IB terms, a teacher can discuss about the ideas and encourage that student whether if it is a good knowledge question or topic. I gotta admit several classmates aren't doing so well either. I hope someone could help me, maybe like I'll email you my script or general idea and you could just give a feed back saying if I'm on track or going off track that's all. I won't try to bother anyone too much, I promise, I just am willing to learn things and improve my grades and I need your help since my teacher wasn't helping much. I'll owe big time to you if you help me in this because the grades means a lot to me.

[ThisIsMe98]

One more thing, my TOK teacher is planning to move to another country so he wouldn't here next year. I am really worried about this because they might be asking a teacher who teaches IVS to fill in and things might be getting worse for me so I need your help ><

[lelu]

Hi guys, I have been struggling with theory of knowledge ever since I joined the IB school. My first year in DP is almost coming to an end but my TOK presentation is not good. I hope I have someone to help give me feedback on my presentation ideas and structure for my second TOK presentation. I had to post it up here because I don't have any seniors to ask from since it's a new school here and IB isn't so popular around here. I would really appreciate your help. I will always try my best to do my part, I just need feed backs since my TOK teacher rarely cared about me. He often told me to ask for feed backs but he would say he is busy and forget about it and I had to wait in his outside office several times. I get that my teacher isn't supposed to help me in most things but we rarely get to discuss about ideas which I saw from the IB terms, a teacher can discuss about the ideas and encourage that student whether if it is a good knowledge question or topic. I gotta admit several classmates aren't doing so well either. I hope someone could help me, maybe like I'll email you my script or general idea and you could just give a feed back saying if I'm on track or going off track that's all. I won't try to bother anyone too much, I promise, I just am willing to learn things and improve my grades and I need your help since my teacher wasn't helping much. I'll owe big time to you if you help me in this because the grades means a lot to me.

 

hey you, don't worry, TOK is one.five points max  I finally got the concept after a year of struggling, so I'll try and share a couple of things, but your teacher might look at things differently. Anyway, here's what worked for in terms of presenting and grading:

 

Structure first. I structure the skeleton of my presentations like a written essay.

 

1. question/topic

2. Interesting/necessary background

3. definition of key terms

4. thesis statement

5. Three claims that support the thesis. All of those go as follows (SEED concept): 

    a. statement - what am I saying. (example: indigenous people have beauty standards that haven't been contaminated by western media)

    b. evidence (example: studies, surveys, artwork etc)

    c. explain (how does my evidence support the statement?)

    d. develop (now why is this relevant to my thesis statement? how does this individual claim relate to the question, and why is that important)

6. a conclusion that paraphrases the thesis statement followed by all three claims or however many you have

7. for good impression and brownie points etc include some concluding questions you had when you did research etc.

What I have found is that a TOK presentation lives or dies with examples. Include a ridiculous amount of them, always, and make sure they are short, relevant, and match exactly what you want to say. A TOK presentation often discusses a conflict or a difficult question, often also controversial. With the right examples, you can get your audience interested in your dilemma or conflict to a point where they listen to you out of honest interest, because you make your problem appear important. 

 

Ideas now:

I try and always link different areas of knowledge to create conflicts or dilemmas. you can be as bold and shocking as you want. for example: to what extent can the systematic killing of handicapped people be justified? should be possibly legalize poaching to save the lives of the poor villagers who poach?

 

to even consider these questions sounds horrible, but TOK is exactly the right space for these kinds of things. It gives you a logical way to look at dilemmas. The next thing to do is to be two or more AOK's that you can use to find contrasting opinions on the topic. if possible, find AOK's that offer legitimate, equally loud "yes" and "no"s. Then compare all this evidence, put your own personal knowledge in, and don't forget to explain which ways of Knowing were used to obtain all your information in the various AOK's. 

 

Good luck, I hope this helps