Hello friends!
While working on my homework this evening, I noticed a connection between our work for TOK and for IB English. Our discussion in TOK about the definition of knowledge yielded the conclusion that many, many things can be considered knowledge; we decided that there really was not one correct definition. Well, today in IB English, we talked about different kinds of media. For our assignment, we had to log all the different kinds of media we have used recently and their purpose. The fact that there are so many types of media with different functions reminded me of how there are also inumerable kinds of knowledge that have different functions in certain knowledge communities. For example, opinion might be of a great importance in one area, but not accepted in fact-based communities.
I thought that it was cool that we were really talking about the same basic comment in two of our classes today!
-Mackenzie
Interdisciplinary concepts will arise throughout this entire trimester, as English, ToK, and History will all carry very similar themes. They are the social sciences, after all. Knowledge can be simply the connection in your mind between two completely unrelated past sensations through nostalgia. Media can be simply percussive signals on a wooden portal (knock knock).
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