{WOKs And AOKs

Sept 16th

Introduce the different Ways of Knowing Introduce the different Areas of Knowing END GOAL: Know what the different

AOKs and WOKs are and be able to briefly discuss them.

Agenda

The different ways that we gain knowledge.

How we acquire knowledge about the world around us AND figure out our relationship with it.

Intertwined and dependent

Ways of Knowing

Emotion Faith Imagination Language Memory Reason Sense Perception

Ways of Knowing

How we divide up and label the knowledge that we possess.

Different categories. Overlapping!

Areas of Knowledge

The Arts Ethics History Human Sciences Indigenous Knowledge Systems Mathematics Natural Sciences Religious Knowledge Systems

Areas of Knowledge

Cover the AOKs and WOKs over 1 ½ years

2 IB assessments cover this material

Create knowledge claims and knowledge questions based on all of this material.

The Course

Look over the Ways of Knowing, which one do you think is the most reliable way of gaining knowledge?

EXPLAIN in detail and with examples!

Question 1

Look over the different Areas of Knowledge, which one do you think is the most important?

EXPLAIN in detail and with examples.

Areas of Knowledge

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” –Oscar Wilde

Agree or Disagree? Explain with examples.

Quote 1

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as the knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” –Charles Spurgeon

What does that mean? Do you agree with it?

Quote 2

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” –Albert Einstein

Agree or disagree? Explain.

Quote 3

“It is beyond doubt that all of our knowledge begins with experience.” – Immanuel Kant

Agree? Disagree? Examples?

Quote 4

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt

Agree or Disagree? How does it apply to your life?

Quote 5

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.” – Alan Moore

Does this quote apply to society? Is it true?

Quote 6