review knowledge framework, WOKs, and introduce Truman Show

1. WELCOME TO TOK
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LIKELY PLACE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM TO FIND EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

2. The Knowledge Framework
Concepts/Language
Scope & Applications
Links to Personal
Knowledge
Methodology
Historical Development

3. Areas of Knowledge
Human SciencesNatural Sciences
MathematicsHistory
The Arts
Ethics
Indigenous Knowledge
Religious Knowledge

4. Ways of Knowing
ImaginationMemory
FaithReason
Intuition
Language
Sense Perception
Emotion

5. Knowledge is . . .
2 Key Metaphors for the Course
Each area of knowledge is
like a culture

6. Maps are . . . .
Useful
Practical
Not the same as the
territory they represent
Reflect a particular
perspective
May be modified
depending on what
purpose they serve

7. Culture is . . . .The Social Group of
People who are
practitioners
Dynamic and Changing
The shared norms and
body of beliefs of a group
If an area of knowledge has its own
culture, then . . .

8. Complex Real World Simplified Knowledge
Nash Equilibrium Theorem

9. JOHN NASH MAKES HIS DISCOVERY
Scene from Beautiful Mind

10. TOK SANDWICH
COMPLEX REAL WORLD
SIMPLIFIED KNOWLEDGE
TOK SECOND ORDER
QUESTIONS (KQ’S)

11. Discuss claims In Groups
Choose someone to jot down your ideas/thoughts
on the back of the claims card provided for you by
your teacher
Report back to whole class

12. The Claims
(a) There is some knowledge we should not seek.
(b) Sometimes it is better to have false beliefs.
(c) We can never know anything with absolute
certainty.
(d) It is always better to know the truth when this is
possible.
(e) All truth is relative. (or) What is true for you may
not be true for me.

13. THE TRUMAN
SHOW
1998 FILM DIRECTED BY
PETER WEIR
STARRING JIM CARREY,
LAURA LINNEY, ED HARRIS,
NOAH EMMERLICH

14. Write Down these
Questions
1. Truman is “on the air, unaware.” Is ignorance bliss?
2. What obstacles stand in the way of Truman’s
recognition of the world he inhabits?
3. How does Truman eventually discover the truth of
his predicament? What tools does he use?
4. Christof claims at one point, “we accept the reality
of the world with which we are presented.” What
are your thoughts on this claim?