Scrambling for time as we explored knowledge!

Well, I have to say that was perhaps the most exhausting lesson I've taught all week. I'm happy with most of the conclusions we came to in the lesson and I've posted a pic of our work below. Let's try in our next lesson to keep the random shouting to a minimum, remember - this is a workshop of sorts and we can only collaborate on our ideas if we listen to what everyone has to say. The thinking stick will make it's way into our next lesson in two weeks time.

Remember to also get those blogs going - Deadline for your first two entries is next Thursday and I will be checking.

We didn't get on to our next topic in lesson 2, which was to look at whether knowledge is certain. Let's plan on that being how we start the lesson on October 1st.

I am excited to see what you all come up with in our Wikipedia exercise - we're contributing to knowledge, which I think is in itself a great way to approach the idea of knowledge. Which means you should be questioning what role information plays in knowledge and perhaps how that role might have changed with the advent of the Internet.

And now I'm going to go for a nap!

TTFN

Brilliant ToK!

Well that was perhaps the best lesson I have had the privelege to be a part of in a very long time. I'm so glad that already I don't have to worry about getting you all to come out of your shells...some of you were throwing those shells across the room like grenades!

So, at the end of our discussion on how you might map knowledge, I hope a little question might have started swimming to the top of your consciousness. We know now how we'd each represent knowledge visually - kudos to Jensen's group for thinking outside the box and modelling how you come to know - but what is knowledge?

For our next lesson I want you to burst into the classroom with the intense need to explain to everyone that you have come up with the ultimate definition for knowledge. Take a look at Plato's definition of knowledge...do you agree?

In our next lesson we are going to examine some of those loose ends we left at the end of the last lesson. In order to do this, we need to investigate the nature of knowing. By the end of period two, I want to examine another question - Is knowledge certain? Your homework will help you in coming to some conclusions on this question...but remember - there are some aspects of knowledge where we may find there is no certainty. Where would be the fun in knowing that everything in life was certain anyway!

Hope you had fun in class today...I really did :-)

TTFN