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Knowledge Claims and Knowledge
Questions9/17
Agenda
Introduce Knowledge Claims
Introduce Knowledge Questions
PRACTICE
END GOAL: Be able to identify
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This is just an intro…So relax!
Knowledge Claims
Statement
Something you believe to be true, yet also open to discussion and debate
Something that we believe we know and that we want to assess the validity of
Knowledge Claims
Claims about the world
Hydrogen is the lightest chemical element.
Claims about knowledge
The knowledge that hydrogen is the lightest chemical element is secure because the methods of chemistry give us a good model of what chemical elements look like.
Knowledge Claims
First Order/World
For any right-angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Second Order/Knowledge
Mathematical knowledge is certain.
Pause: Open-ended questions
No right or wrong answer.
Creates discussion.
Answer not found in text.
What is your most important class? Explain.
Do you think the government is accurately addressing immigration? Explain
Knowledge Questions
Open question about knowledge
Number of plausible answers to it
Question is contestable
About knowledge
Focus on methods and mechanisms that produce knowledge (AOKs and WOKs)
Knowledge Questions
First Order
Vocab is specific to the subject In economics, how
do supply and demand determine the price of a commodity?
Second Order
Framed in general TOK vocabulary What do we mean
by elegance in mathematical proof?
Knowledge Questions
2nd Order What is the role of intention in making
ethical decisions? To what extent do we need art
technique or art history training in order to appreciate artwork.
Example
History and Memory How important are eyewitness accounts
to the study of history?
Example
Based on the article, USING TEXTUAL EVIDENCE, answer the knowledge question: How important are eyewitness accounts to the study
of history?
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/the-power-of-memory-in-the-civil-rights-movement/373890/