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[Robb]

malkovic, on Apr 05, 2011 - 00:53, said:

ToK is a bunch of BS. We have a considerably large IB class (36 students) and so the majority of our discussion consists of people who think they're smart parroting ideas straight out of the ToK text. There are about five people who actually know what they're talking about.

36 students s?!?!?!

thats my year and year 12 and half of year 10 in my school....

wtf?!

[robyah18981]

I freaking LOVE TOK! We were discussing perception and our teacher showed us a video.
We were all hype that we got the right number, until the James Earl Jones-esque  voice told us about the bear.

Edited by robyah18981, Apr 30, 2011 - 19:18.

[Salve]

like sugar on strawberries. i like my teacher and the class. some things we do in class are fun

[champsélysées]

The class itself was pretty good, but I don't think it's something you ought to be marked on.

[wordnerd]

tok is... blah
i was initially really excited about it, but all the ib-speak is annoying, and it hasn't really opened my eyes to anything new. i guess part of it is that we're a new ib school so my teacher is inexperienced, but i feel like we've spent this entire year trying to figure out just what the hell ib wants us to be saying and doing, without actually getting to do any deep thinking or analysis.

[ChikkyD]

Sugar on strawberries. It does my head in sometimes, but I reaaaaaally enjoy it other times. I've finished TOK now though, and sort of miss it a little bit

[Hexi]

ToK is a bit too confusing for me, imho.

It served as a break-lesson for me this year  

[BugEyes O.o]

in all honesty its a NAY!
well at first i was like COOL!
but then i dont know why, it made me feel like i was living in a whole other world! i seriously felt like the REAL world was a dream!!  
Therefore, it is hard to concentrate and live in the present!  

so I conlude with a NAY!  

[(One Two)]

I personally can't stand it as time I could be spending working in school (as I very often do not work at home apart from the mornings) is rather spent in a very dumbed-downed philosophy class to which I only have to write one essay and perform one presentation at the end of a year and a half. Especially being May 2012 I wish my teacher would just give me the essay outline/samples as well as the presentations and allow me not to go to the lessons. We spent time talking about the way of knowing of History, which is mostly just logic anyways, which I just don't care about and won't help me as I'm not doing my presentation or essay about it. Other people in my class like it because it's "so philosophical" which makes me die a little bit. But yeah, I personally hate it.

[shaeshae]

Honestly, I absolutely hate TOK.....but then again I've only had the class for about three weeks now, so most of my time is spent wanting to go bang my head against a wall.

[Alexandra S.]

I join the people who think ToK is a waste of time... My class has a reasonable good teacher, we get discussions going and so on, but I can't get rid of the feeling that we're just sitting there exercising our mouths without actually learning anything. I don't think ToK has the capacity to turn the way you think 180 degrees. You've been taught to behave and obey for 16 years, one year of ToK won't make you suddenly question absolutely everything you've learned since you were born. And one more thing: our teacher gives us ridiculous amounts of homework for ToK. It distracts me from the really important work and it takes ages to do it! And ToK is only worth 1 point in the Diploma!

[macrofire]

Our TOK teacher has been doing "TOK" stuff with his other classes for the past 5 years. This course just gives him free reign to let loose. It's good in a way, but I hate it how the rest of the class are so tight-jawed (literally) about TOK. I usually have to spew out some random junk that incenses about half the class to get some real discussion going.

Any tips for raising class discussion without making some really profane comments?

[vestes22]

Our TOK teacher=lazy. And the subject matter of the class lets him do it.
However, ToK makes a GREAT class to work on other stuff in.  

[Award Winning Boss]

Boring because my class sucks

[Kimberly]

its cool(:

our TOK teacher is really chill so he makes classes enjoyable

[coollog]

i like tok because most of the time my teacher lets us have study halls

[Tony Stark]

Well, we don't really have ToK classes, but "sugar on strawberries" seems to sum it up. The aim of creating logical thinkers who can look critically upon what they hear is admirable, but I think it becomes either redundant or too little, too late by the time one commences the IBDP, depending on the student. Heavy emphasis in MYP seems the way to go, imo.

[jeanlean]

I went into TOK thinking that it would be a class where we could reflect, have class discussions, etc but I definitely think it's something we shouldn't be marked on.. considering most of us need the time to focus on our other subjects we are going to actually use to get into Uni, etc. Plus I think my teacher's going crazy with the workload - she assigned my class twenty reflections to do on our past twenty lessons to do over the weekend because she forgot to tell us that we needed to reflect after each lesson.