{"id":1050,"date":"2012-08-28T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2012-08-28T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:01:39","slug":"discourse-and-bias-knowledge-and-filters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/uncategorized\/discourse-and-bias-knowledge-and-filters\/","title":{"rendered":"Discourse And Bias, Knowledge and Filters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Key Questions:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 What are the differences between the following: information, data, belief, faith, opinion, knowledge and wisdom?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 How much of one\u2019s knowledge depends on interactions with others?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 To what extent does personal or ideological bias influence our knowledge claims?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Does knowledge come from inside or outside? Do we construct reality or recognise it?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Task 1.<\/strong> Look at the following picture. Generate a single sentence headline statement to describe \/ explain what has happened here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psychceu.com\/terrorism\/Twin_Tower.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\">Source: Photo courtesy FEMA (Public Domain)<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Task 2<\/strong>. We will now discuss \/ share our headlines, and identify any bias.<\/p>\n<p>What assumptions \/ presuppositions do you include so that your statement \/ headline makes sense? Why are these presuppositions good? Why can they be disadvantageous?<\/p>\n<p>What is the most neutral statement that we can arrive at as a class?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Task 3<\/strong> \u2013 Explore how things \/ ideas \/ concepts might be viewed differently in different cultures.<\/p>\n<p>View this slideshare, which contains the very clever infographics by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yangliudesign.com\/\">Yang Liu<\/a> and take it in turns to explain what each slide is trying to imply about cultural assumptions:<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid\" height=\"486\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/1213048\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"597\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\"><strong><a title=\"Understanding Cultural Differences between eastern and western societies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/anexastihor\/cultural-difference\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding Cultural Differences between eastern and western societies<\/a> <\/strong>from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/anexastihor\" target=\"_blank\">anexastihor<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>Discuss any examples you know of, perhaps between the different cultural backgrounds of the students in this class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Task 4<\/strong> An excellent article on Critical Thinking by Richard van de Lagemaat<\/p>\n<p>Access his article by clicking here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ibo.org\/ibworld\/documents\/may02.pdf\">http:\/\/ibo.org\/ibworld\/documents\/may02.pdf<\/a> &#8211; and going to page 15. Read it carefully and be prepared to discuss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Task 5 Avatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most people have seen this movie. To remind \u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5PSNL1qE6VY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Avatar is about an entirely different world, set in the future. It is not about our world right?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it? Perhaps an imagined world like this is filtered through the creator\u2019s experiences of this world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discuss<\/strong>. What (cultural) assumptions are made in the movie? What biases? What might the audience be learning \/ accepting about our world by watching this that might in fact not be true \/ accurate \/ fair?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Task 6 <\/strong>Find an online article, video clip, image, or other source that reveals cultural bias and messages that seem to be easily accepted by society, especially if we don\u2019t apply some critical thinking<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some ideas on the sort of resources you can include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A youtube trailer to a movie <\/li>\n<li>An advert <\/li>\n<li>A poem <\/li>\n<li>A news article <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some ideas of the sorts of things which the resource gives some biased ideas about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Role of men \/ women <\/li>\n<li>Ideas of beauty <\/li>\n<li>Status \/ jobs \/ money <\/li>\n<li>Assumptions about different nationalities \/ ethnic groups <\/li>\n<li>Assumptions about proper behaviour \u2013 right and wrong <\/li>\n<li>Hierarchy \/ Power <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make the resource easily accessible \u2013 a short youtube clip, an image, an easy to read news article. You can take this from any culture.<\/p>\n<p>Share a link to the resource. Include some text to explain the discourse and bias that is contained inside the resource:<\/p>\n<p>The link to the resource.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What messages are conveyed that may in fact not be real are conveyed. <\/li>\n<li>Why are these messages accepted by society even if they don\u2019t match reality? <\/li>\n<li>How do these messages \/ assumptions\/ biases continue to survive? <\/li>\n<li>Extra: can you link this to the filters mentioned in the article (task 4) \u2013 perception, language, emotion,&#160; and reason? (Don\u2019t worry if not at this stage, we will go into these inn much more depth later in the course). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Task 7 &#8211; Reflect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7Describe in your own words what we mean by the term \u2018filter\u2019 in TOK?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 What do you think is the most important \/ influential \/ powerful filter that affects you?<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Why is it important to know about the filters and how they affect the way you view the world?<\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffff00\">Much credit goes to <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mrhoyestokwebsite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><font style=\"background-color: #ffff00\">Mr Kevin Hoye<\/font><\/a><font style=\"background-color: #ffff00\">, originator of many of the ideas contained in these tasks.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Key Questions: \u00b7 What are the differences between the following: information, data, belief, faith, opinion, knowledge and wisdom? \u00b7 How much of one\u2019s knowledge depends on interactions with others? \u00b7 To what extent does personal or ideological bias influence our knowledge claims? \u00b7 Does knowledge come from inside or outside? 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