Posts tagged introduction
Describing Places Using Key Words and Google Maps
Jan 12th
Source: National Geographic (Education)
Watch this video. Afterwards, you need to describe the places that you have seen in the video, so watch carefully.
Q. As we describe the places we see, what sort of special words can we use? We are trying to use Geography key words …
Mini Norway – a Tilt Shift Movie from Davide Vasta on Vimeo.
Now we will do the same for a different place …
Bird’s eye Bangkok from Pieter Manders on Vimeo.
What Geography Key Words can we use when describing places?
Putting it all together – here is how a student once applied such key words to three locations around Rayong in Thailand.
Introduction to TOK – What is Knowledge?
Aug 21st
Key Questions:
1. What does it mean to know something? What is knowledge? How do we know what is real?
2. How is Knowledge different from Belief?
3. What do we mean by the word True?
Resources to help us:
The TOK diagram.
How do we know what is real? …
Are we living in The Matrix?
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
If you like the above animation (which is quite dated but very useful for explaining Plato’s allegory, you might also like this shorter,more recently produced version:
More information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
http://tamayaosbc.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/74/
http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2h.htm
Image – licensed under CC, details here.
