Why TOK?

TOK is designed to help us answer questions more intuitively and with a deeper understanding. It will help us answer questions with more of an idea of how to go about answering it. TOK is a tool to also help us thinking more about why things happen.

Addition: TOK will help us become better people with different characteristics like knowledgeable and risk takers. This will shape us as what the IB thinks are role model citizens.

1.) inferential learning mechanisms - the way someone learns how to live in society (babies for example)

2.) In the first 3 years of life, babies seem to undergo a huge transformation according to the article "What every baby knows". Right when they are born they are able to respond and recreate facial expression. As they grow older they recognized what those facial expressions can be tied with, different emotions for example which they then react themselves to.

3.) "Babies are like scientists, continually overthrowing theories that no longer fir the evidence". I think this quote has a lot to do with how we used to perceive babies. We used to think they weren't intellectually capable to understand most of the things that they do. Now after research they have "overthrown the theories" and proved that they are far more intellectual than anyone had previously guessed.

What is TOK anyway?

TOK is a course that will help me understand the way I know things.

How am I a knower?

I think that sense perception and the arts tie into how I am a knower. The way I see things greatly affected the way I made and even make art. In 9th and 10th grade in my art class, I would use my perception to further my art. Now my perception goes into how I portray different scenes in my 10th and 11th grade theatre class.