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BONUS EPISODE: ALL THE TITLES 2023… BEWARE!

10/25/2022

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TOK Talk · Bonus Episode: All the titles 2023… beware!
After we finished the last episode, Kevin Hoye and I kept our conversation going about each of the titles, and I decided to keep the mic on to capture our conversation in the form of a quick little bonus episode to point out some things to watch out for and some interesting bits about each of the 6 titles. Class of 2023 TOK students… listen up!

Again, thank you random musicians on this track… speaking of which, if you’re a musician and would like to be featured,reach out to me! 
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2023 Essay Title 5: Visual Representations

10/25/2022

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TOK Talk · Visual Representations: 2023 TOK Essay Title 5
Today I enjoyed tea and talked some TOK with Kevin Hoye (IB English Literature and TOK Teacher) about 2023 TOK Essay Title 5: Are visual representations always helpful in the communication of knowledge? Discuss with reference to the human sciences and mathematics. We talked a lot about different ways into understanding this question, beginning with ∞ 

​Links:
  • The Mathematical Art Of M.C. Escher | Video | Abakcus
  • A Summary of Modern Cosmology
  • A New Way to See Art - The Atlantic​

Thank you to the random street Shanghai musician, once again for the music bringing us in and out of this track.
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2023 Essay Title 1: Replicability

10/25/2022

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TOK Talk · Replicability: 2023 TOK Essay Title 1
In this episode, I sat down with Donna Gee (IB Design Technology Teacher) and Michael Stewart (IB Psychology and TOK Teacher) to unpack and wrestle with 2023 TOK Essay Title 1: Is replicability necessary in the production of knowledge? Discuss with reference to two areas of knowledge.

​We had a rich discussion which I hope you’ll find insightful into the role and relevance of replicability in different Areas of Knowledge. 


Links:
  • Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything? - Vox
  • Why Most Published Research Findings Are False | PLOS Medicine
  • There is no replication crisis in science. It's the base rate fallacy. - Big Think        
  • Statistical P-hacking explained - World Editors Forum 
  • Publication bias - Catalog of Bias (University of Oxford)
  • Accidental discovery of teflon - The History of Teflon™ Fluoropolymers
  • Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian,' Explained: Here's Everything We Published on the Viral Banana Art, All in One Place
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2023 Essay Title 3: Bubbles

10/24/2022

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TOK Talk · Bubbles: 2023 TOK Essay Title 3
In this episode, I talked to Ian Galley (IBDP English Language & Literature) Nicole Mamphey (Science and Applied Ethics) about TOK Essay Title 3: Does it matter if our acquisition of knowledge happens in “bubbles” where some information and voices are excluded? Discuss with reference to two areas of knowledge. 

​We had a rich discussion about “bubbles'' as they exist in social media networks and internet platforms as well as within academia, algorithms, and how this contributes to, enhances and distorts our bubbles. We also discussed many of the real world consequences (why it matters!) that what we’re learning may occur in these bubbles.

We discussed relevant ideas including retracted findings of psychology and vaccination studies, bubbles in comedy and how it fits with the Benign Violation Theory, perspectives and the Soldier vs. Scout Mindset by Julia Galef, Spiral of Silence Theory and the social tendency to reinforce bubbles and silences descending voices, and the Metaverse. We discuss the difference between a community and a bubble: which one is more open to other ideas? How do they overlap? 

We unpack and explore: Does it matter (to who? for what?) Does it matter to our acquisition of knowledge? Does it matter to the voices that are excluded? We challenge the notion that science is objective, and discuss how even in the sciences we want to reinforce what fits our own perspective and beliefs. We also begin to discuss voices that are excluded: silenced voices - why this matters!
Links: 

  • The Social Dilemma Netflix Movie Trailer & Website
  • So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Book by Jon Ronson) - Chapter 5 (regarding the debunking of Zimbardo’s infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, and the interview with Eshelman (the guard that admitted to faking his actions in the experiment)
  • Benign Violation Theory “integrates existing humor theories to propose that humor occurs when and only when three conditions are satisfied: (1) a situation is a violation, (2) the situation is benign, and (3) both perceptions occur simultaneously.”
  • Soldier Mindset Ted Talk by Julia Galef - Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong
  • Spiral of Silence Theory 
  • Ready Player One (Novel by Ernest Cline) and Ready Player Movie Trailer
  • Wind River Movie Trailer
  • How to be an Antiracist a very powerful and useful book by American author and historian Ibram X. Kendi
  • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States revisionist history book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz       
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2023 ESSAY TITLE 4: POWER

10/20/2022

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TOK Talk · 19 Title 4 Power
In this episode, I met with Dr. PS and Janka Steinkamp (both IB English teachers to talk about Essay Title 4: Do you agree that it is “astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power” (Bertrand Russell)? Discuss with reference to the natural sciences and one other area of knowledge.

I hope you find this episode as interesting as we did. If you’re looking for the TOK Essay Title Posters I mentioned, you can find them here.

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance” (Confucius in 500 BC)
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Links:
  • Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot
  • Sir Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms  TED Talk
  • Decolonise IB: How international school alumni are mobilising to diversify the expat curriculum | by Xoài David | Medium
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: "Europe and the West must also be decolonised" | CCCB LAB
  • The Big Bang Theory S06E08 The 43 Peculiarity - Wormhole generator test
Music is courtesy of Plastic Daizi Band, just one of our warm up sessions from many moons ago.

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