The document discusses a Theory of Knowledge class. It introduces the teachers and their areas of focus. It outlines the class goals of examining knowledge based on the TOK "Circle of Knowing." It presents Salvador Dali's painting "The Persistence of Memory" and asks what it tells us. It discusses ways of knowing and areas of knowledge that students will blog about. Students are expected to comment on each other's blogs. They will maintain a knowledge portfolio and do a presentation on what excites them about TOK. The class is setting up blogs to get started.

1. Something to ponder
 Would you ever hang the picture on the following slide
in your room?
 Do you think your parents would ever chose to put it in
the main room in your house?
 Why or why not?

3. Something to ponder
 Would you ever hang the picture on the following slide
in your room?
 Do you think your parents would ever chose to put it in
the main room in your house?
 Why or why not?

5. Something to ponder
 Would you ever hang the picture on the following slide
in your room?
 Do you think your parents would ever chose to put it in
the main room in your house?
 Why or why not?

7. Something to ponder
 Would you ever hang the picture on the following slide
in your room?
 Do you think your parents would ever chose to put it in
the main room in your house?
 Why or why not?

9. Something to ponder
 Would you ever hang the picture on the following slide
in your room?
 Do you think your parents would ever chose to put it in
the main room in your house?
 Why or why not?

10. The Hallucinogenic Toreador, Salvador Dali, 1970

11. Theory of Knowledge 25
Monday, September 24

12. We are all learners, but…
 Mr. McNeill  Mr. Sperling
 English/Social teacher –  Language teacher – music
film addict fiend
 cmcneill@share.epsb.ca  r.sperling@share.epsb.ca
 Mr. MacCollum  @LilOSperling
 Social teacher – hopeless  @LillOmaccollum
technology geek
 #lillotok
 gmaccoll@share.epsb.ca

13. Our goal
Examine our knowledge
based on the Theory of
Knowledge ‘Circle of
Knowing’

14. The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali, 1931
The key question
What does this picture tell us?

15. How do we know that a
given assertion is true, or
a given judgment, well
grounded?
• Allegory of the cave

16. The Earth is the centre of the
Universe!

17. Sensible and responsible
women do not want to vote.

18. 640kb (kilobytes) ought to be
enough for anybody

19. It is impossible to travel faster
than the speed of light

20. Blog entries
 You must write one entry
about each one of the ways
of knowing
 You must also do one for
the six areas of knowledge
 You will need to write at
least three before the first
report card (end of October
date TBD)

21. Comments
 You need to be looking at each other’s blog posts
 You need to be following our class blog
 Commenting is important for learning, it allows others to see
your thought and think more about their own

22. Knowledge Portfolio
 This will be something that you
will be gathering mostly from our
ToK Days
 Can add material from other
sources
 The idea is to collect
‘information’ that you find
interesting and useful
 Vocabulary
 Definition
 Concepts
 Theories
 Names
 Can be in either digital or printed
formats

23. Presentation
 You must complete one
presentation
 It will focus on ‘what you
are excited to be doing in
ToK 35’
 The details are to be
determined, we will be
informing you as we go

24. Let’s get started
Setting up your blogs
Step by step
Lillotok25.blogspot.ca
An early example of a good blog
entry
Another style, still need a little
reflection, but you can do this
too!
Another good example

25. Some ideas
Put in some information regarding a
recent news story; something with
photography; a video in the same vein
What that means in a bigger context
Raise some question or questions