TOK PRESENTATIONS What do you need to do

TOK PRESENTATIONS What do you need to do?

TURN IN YOUR PROJECT IN THE TRAY ON THE TABLE. Today we talk about what exactly a TOK presentation looks like.

WHAT IS THE PRESENTATION FOR? • To show the connection between the “real world” and “TOK world” • How do TOK concepts help us better analyze and understand real life situations? • You must examine knowledge – analyzing real-life situations through the TOK lens in order to answer knowledge questions.

PICKING A REAL-LIFE SITUATION • Anything that actually happens, not hypotheticals or made up situations. • Anything of international, state, local/community, or personal interest.

PICKING A REAL-LIFE SITUATION • HAS TO BE RELATED TO KNOWLEDGE • You can be creative about this, but it has to be clear and obvious to the audience how your situation relates to your knowledge question.

PICKING A REAL-LIFE SITUATION • Something interesting, that makes you think, that you care about. • Not just a moral debate!!!! Can be controversial, but can’t just be trying to explain why one side of an ethical debate is better than another

WRITING YOUR KNOWLEDGE QUESTION • Knowledge Question must be… • • • …about knowledge. …use TOK vocabulary. …RELEVANT to the Real-life situation you chose (as well as OTHER real-life situations). …developed in the presentation through arguments, examples, and evidence …answered in the course of your presentation.

DEVELOPING YOUR KNOWLEDGE QUESTION • How will you do this? • Present different perspectives on the issues/ideas of knowledge mentioned in your question • Evidence and examples (quotes from experts/research, different WOK and/or AOK) • You will answer the question • Relate the question to multiple real-life situations • Address the implications (a. k. a. significance of your question and what it says about knowledge)

THINGS TO AVOID • Rea-life Situation (RLS) is not relevant to knowledge or TOK exploration. • Too much description of the real-life situation. • Poor knowledge question; no knowledge question. • Knowledge question is not related to RLS.

THINGS TO AVOID • Ignoring different perspectives. These are not simply unsupported assertions of different personal opinions, but are grounded in evidence. • Failure to examine the implications of the knowledge question, a. k. a. why does this matter? • Knowledge question is not applied to other real-life situations. • No other follow up questions are asked about the Knowledge question. • No analysis or argument. • Lack of evidence.

THINGS TO AVOID • Only arguing about ethics – i. e. “Is thing morally right or wrong? Let me tell you!” If you do a presentation on ethics it has to be about knowledge in ethics.

FEATURES OF A GOOD PRESENTATION • Thought provoking real-life situation • Well developed knowledge question • Exploring knowledge • Different perspectives • Evidence and counterarguments • Relating knowledge question to other RLSs/showing the significance of the knowledge question/issues. • Why does this matter? Why should we care?

OTHER TIPS • Don’t cram too many words onto any slides! • Memorize and rehearse • Images/videos are okay but be careful • Be confident!! • Fake it til you make it

THE RUBRIC • What are the different levels? • What is required of each? • What distinguishes a great presentation from a bad one or even an okay one?