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20 TOK Presentation Ideas for your IB!
The TOK presentation is every IB student’s worst nightmare. Speaking for an extended period of time about ‘AoKs’ and ‘WoKs’ just isn’t ok. But fear not, some of Lanterna’s elite IB graduates have noted down 20 TOK Presentation Ideas that worked for them! Take a look at these previously successful combinations to help spark your…
Breaking Down the 2019 TOK Titles: Part 2
In this week’s blog we are looking at the rest of those tricky TOK titles. Read on for some inspiration for your essay! “Disinterestedness is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. The key element of this title is the term ‘disinterestedness’. Your essay needs to…
Breaking Down the 2019 TOK Titles: Part 1
The titles are out and essays need to be written. Yes, it is TOK essay writing time but those essays titles can be notoriously tricky to decipher. Over the next two weeks, therefore, I’m going to be breaking down the titles to give you some ideas for your essay! “The quality of knowledge is best…
Tackle that TOK Essay!
As an IB Diploma student, there’s no escaping the joy of TOK. Not only do you have to get your head around what Theory of Knowledge actually is, but the IBO make you write an essay too. Excellent. If it makes you feel any better, the TOK essay was not my favourite part of the…
TOK: The Basics
TOK: The Basics When it comes to TOK, there’s a lot of chat that precedes it: ‘ToK is pointless’… ‘ToK is a waste of time’… ‘ToK is mind-boggling’. Now, I’m not here to dispel these myths. When you’ve 6 subjects to worry about, theory of knowledge can sometimes seem the least of your worries. All…
How to Ace your TOK Presentation
But first, what is the TOK presentation and what does it actually involve? The presentation is one of two compulsory TOK assignments. The TOK presentation is meant to test your understanding of TOK concepts in relation to a real-life situation. The real-life scenario can be based on a situation in your local community or an issue…
TOK Essay? No problem!
TOK Essay: The assignment that has to be done, but seems like an impossible challenge before you even look at the prescribed questions. If you haven’t started looking at this year’s essay titles, you might begin by doing this. However, if you feel like “Um, what is this and how does any of the work…
Let’s TOK this… Part 3: Taking TOK to the next level
So here we are. We’ve looked at real-life situations. We’ve looked at knowledge questions. Now we can get right to the heart of things and figure out how we actually DO the TOK thing: namely the essay and presentation. If you haven’t yet read the first two installments of this blog series, go have a…
Let’s TOK this Part 2: Knowledge is… Power?
Hello again TOK-ers. In my first post of this series I talked a bit about HOW you find a real-life situation for your knowledge question. Continuing on with that theme, I thought I’d go into a little more depth about how you actually form that ever so tricky knowledge question. So my IB warriors, it’s time…
Let’s TOK This | Part 1: ‘Is this real life?’
I’m going to be honest with you all: when I was studying the IB (not too long ago I’ll have you know…), I would often moan to my friends about TOK. It wasn’t that I found TOK boring, far from it actually— I loved the full-blown arguments that would always ensue in a TOK class—…
