Recognize TOK skills you already own!

"That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow." Consider knowledge issues raised by this statement in two areas of knowledge.
-Prescribed Title May 2014 #4

What role might emotion play in deciding whether to discard knowledge?
- Dr. Orfield's Question about Knowledge from her Presentation for Fall 2019

NOTICE: My Presentation's main question about knowledge is the kind of question that could be used to answer a Prescribed Title. See the one I quoted at the top of this blog entry. Guess what? Your TOK Presentation & Essay assessments are closely related!

What skills must you apply to your TOK Presentation that you will ALSO have to apply to your TOK Essay?

• Recognize real life situations raising questions about knowledge.
• Formulate a main question about knowledge, which can 'travel' to different areas of knowledge.
• Define terms for your audience when necessary.
• Break your main question down into subsidiary questions about knowledge.
• Employ knowledge 'framework' concepts (learned from the Pearson text).
• Build perspectives in several areas of knowledge, telling stories about knowers in these areas.
• Share insights.
• Tell your own personal stories in these areas as well.
• Occasionally highlight the role of a way of knowing.
• Justify your answer to the main question about knowledge, taking on counterclaims.
• Show how your answer applies to real life situations, and therefore matters.
• Cite sources which are not common knowledge.

NOTICE: You have exercised most of the skills necessary for the Essay.