G11 students carried out a TOK exhibition where they showcased how TOK manifests in the world around us. Each student identified three specific objects of significance in a real-world context, and wrote commentaries linking these objects to an Internal Assessment prompt. The selected prompts were picked out of 35 prompts provided by the International Baccalaureate.
Students created exhibitions that were interesting and meaningful to them personally. The exhibition was hosted on the school campus where the school community interacted with exhibitors. There was a high level of enthusiasm as students took the audience through their exhibitions, explaining how each object connected with their IA prompt.
The Station of Knowledge
Someone will see the tile of my reflection and ask why I call it the “Station of Knowledge”? I learnt a whole lot from the process leading to those two hours of exhibition and during the exhibition itself. My IA prompt was, “Does our knowledge depend on our interactions with other knowers?” It was a joy explaining to people what I knew about my prompt and it was just easy and nice to listen to the wisdom other people had to share. I believe that TOK is a very important aspect of the IB Diploma Programme. It makes you think deeper to validate what you claim to know. I personally had to do loads of research into my IA prompt. It may be stressful setting up and everything, but it was worth it. I left the exhibition with the satisfaction that I had shared the knowledge I had with other people. I honestly encourage the incoming DP students to take TOK seriously to understand how it works and apply it to their daily lives, be it in school or at home. It does really answer some of the questions we ask ourselves day in day out.
The TOK exhibition was also an opportunity for students to take control of their own learning and express themselves as knowers. It also enabled students to build authentic relationships between themselves and students in other grades who have not had the opportunity to study TOK yet. The exhibition also offered teachers to see and make TOK connections with their own subjects and to actualize the saying that all teachers are TOK teachers. ~ David Safo
Does some knowledge belong only to particular communities of knowers?
Theory of Knowledge (TOK) plays a vital role in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP). However, DP1 had an exhibition and I would like to share my experience. It was hectic from the beginning, selecting a prompt and linking it to an object. However, the TOK exhibition was a very informative session. We had various teachers and students come to our posters and comment, as well as giving us new ideas to improve our work.
Overall, it was a great experience and I am looking forward to our final exhibition. I was able to build my communication skills because teachers and students who are not in my grade were able to interact with me. ~Theodora Tekpor