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[Caitlin]

I just wanted to see what the general consensus around here was regarding the IB's 6 and a halfth subject - Theory of Knowledge. I know it has some fans, while others would rather stab themselves repeatedly in the foot 1600 times than write a 1600 word essay about how the Ways of Knowing tell them that the aforementioned activity would be very painful.

So - tell us what you think, TOK: yay or nay?

[~Lc~]

a def yay for me , though that is definitely expected from a TOK geek.

why is it a yaay? well now that I'm done and I got a B in it even though I practically worshiped the subject. I think it's more because it opened my mind to general essay writing and logically thinking about matters rather than the material in the subject itself. In fact when I was rereading the Alchin book to conjure up some ideas for the essay outline thread stickied in this forum, I found myself forgetting most of what I was reading

in conclusion: it's a yaaaaaay

[Ruan Chun Xian]

yay but I'm not crazy about it. I like it and it's a good subject but...well...it makes my head hurt sometimes I loved the Alchin book as well, it was really interesting. You know I'd probably buy it if I see it again.

[Bandev]

I have enjoyed it, because I am a dreamer (INFP) and I think too much.

[Afterglow]

Well the way you put it.

Yay.
Hot.
Like sugar on strawberries.

[basilmasri21]

Althogh I'll admit I don't always look forward to it, I am glad the IB included TOK for the diploma requirements. There are many times where it's confusing as hell, such as defining ghosts or what knowledge is, but after more than a year into it, I find it really opens up one's mind. I also enjoyed getting a well deserved 20/20 by making my own fake newstation and showing reliability of knowledge obtained from media, with a focus on the four ways of knowing. It's also a nice, mid-week break, especially if your teacher likes to play relevant movies, like Pulp Fiction and American History X.

[~Lc~]

basilmasri21, on Aug 22 2007, 07:48 PM, said:

Althogh I'll admit I don't always look forward to it, I am glad the IB included TOK for the diploma requirements. There are many times where it's confusing as hell, such as defining ghosts or what knowledge is, but after more than a year into it, I find it really opens up one's mind. I also enjoyed getting a well deserved 20/20 by making my own fake newstation and showing reliability of knowledge obtained from media, with a focus on the four ways of knowing. It's also a nice, mid-week break, especially if your teacher likes to play relevant movies, like Pulp Fiction and American History X.

miss Lana tells everyone they got a 20/20 on their presentation she told me that last year.. and then I saw that she actually gave me an 19/20 so don't believe everything

[Ruan Chun Xian]

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but just sitting there in the lesson and listening to someone read from a textbook or the teacher talking on and on is just not it...

Poor you. You have a teacher with a boring method of teaching TOK, it seems.

TOK lessons at my school are fun (well depends on your class and whether they talk, but my class ). It's just discussion and talking and going way off topic and finding our way back to the actual topic .

[Bandev]

Yeah I agree with HMS my tok teacher was my best teacher ('was' because we have handed in oour Tok essays a month ago). He was funny and intelligent and abit mean, and he didn't use all the cliche tok language which made it much more bareable.

[winter]

My TOK experience was terrible... except for the essays and presentations. I enjoyed them because it was easy - I just had to write down everything I was thinking already (I adapted something I'd previously written to create my practice essay) and hand it in. I skipped every class I could because they were BORING. Sad but true.
If the way the classes were taught was changed, or even if the teachers were interesting, it would have been at least okay. Or if we were locked in a room with a topic and no teacher.  B)