Final lesson

What are the three most important things you have learned?

In TOK this year i learned more about different ways of thinking more than anything, things that i didn't even know existed as 'ways of knowing'. classifying different methods of learning into different WOK's had made me think about how we can be sure that what we hear and how we hear it can be trusted as fact. presentation skills are also something i learned to improve upon this year because of all the worrying about the end of year TOK presentation, it has forced me to learn more about presenting techniques than any other subject. and finally, i have improved upon my ability to think about things in a TOK way and to convey those thoughts into a discussion.

In TOK?

different WOK and applying them to RLI's and classifying different learning situations to WOK. like mentioned in the above question.

In general?Why?

in general, i would say it was my presentation skills that have improved over the course of the year, as TOK requires quite a bit of presenting and discussion. conveying my thoughts and points of view have been something i have been forced to do, so i think in the long term, those areas of me have definitely improved. 

TOK:

• What does it tell us about the nature of knowledge – or the inherent value of knowledge – or the different classifications of knowledge?

By classifying different WOK's i think it shows that this is in fact an important field to be studying, that not all knowledge is the same and that we as a community have different views, ways of knowing, and ways of teaching knowledge.

• How has your understanding of knowledge developed across the year? How has it changed?

Coming into TOK this year, i honestly had no idea about the different ways of knowing, over the course of the year i have learned what each way of knowing is and classifying different situations into each way of knowing.

• How are the categories – the Ways of Knowing – helpful or unhelpful? 

They become helpful when you want to analyse a situation, how trustworthy it is, by applying it to a WOK, you can come to conclusions about how reliable it is, for example, shared knowledge over experiential knowledge.