WOKs And AOKs
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Sept 16th
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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
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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
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Ways of Knowing
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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
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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.
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The Course
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Look over the Ways of Knowing, which one do
you think is the most reliable way of gaining
knowledge?
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EXPLAIN in detail and with examples!
Question 1
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Look over the different Areas of Knowledge,
which one do you think is the most important?
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EXPLAIN in detail and with examples.
Areas of Knowledge
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“Education is an admirable thing, but
it is well to remember that nothing
that is worth knowing can be taught.”
–Oscar Wilde
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Agree or Disagree? Explain with
examples.
Quote 1
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“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?
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Quote 2
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“The true sign of intelligence is not
knowledge but imagination.” –
Albert Einstein
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Agree or disagree? Explain.
Quote 3
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“It is beyond doubt that all of our
knowledge begins with
experience.” – Immanuel Kant
Agree? Disagree?
 Examples?
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Quote 4
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“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?
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Quote 5
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“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?
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Quote 6