TOK Movie Project
This project is a “Practice TOK Oral Presentation.” You will be presenting a movie TOKishly. Include an
overview of the movie for those who haven’t seen it, but focus your presentation on the TOK Knowledge
Issues that arise from the movie. You will need to select and show a movie clip (or clips) that add up to 510 minutes total. This clip should help illuminate the TOKish part of the movie.
In the “official” TOK project, each individual should speak/present for 10 minutes. For this presentation,
plan for an absolute maximum of 25 minutes for your entire group. The structure is up to you. Don’t be a
slave to Power Point. If you use Power Point, DON’T JUST READ THE SLIDES. Feel free to dress up,
role play, involve the class, lead a structured activity, use props/visual aids, etc. Make it interesting. We
should look forward to the movie presentation days!!!
Your presentation should include the following TOK jargon:
Knowledge Issues
Knowledge issues are questions that directly refer to our understanding of the world, ourselves
and others, in connection with the acquisition, search for, production, shaping and acceptance of
knowledge. These issues are intended to open to inquiry and exploration not only problems but also
strengths of knowledge. Students sometimes overlook the positive value of different kinds of
knowledge, and the discriminatory power of methods used to search for knowledge, to question it,
and to establish its validity. Knowledge issues can reveal how knowledge can be a benefit, a gift, a
pleasure and a basis for further thought and action, just as they can uncover the possible
uncertainties, biases in approach, or limitations relating to knowledge, ways of knowing, and the
methods of verification and justification appropriate in different areas of knowledge.
-TOK Subject Guide
Ways of Knowing
Emotion
Reason
Sense-perception
Areas of Knowledge
Natural Sciences
Human Sciences
Mathematics
History
The arts
Ethics
Big Fish
12 Angry Men
A Beautiful Mind
Proof
Inherit the Wind
Doubt
Other?
Possible Movie Choices:
Mona Lisa Smile
At First Sight
The Matrix
The Truman Show
Language
*Note: Your movie choice must be pre-approved by Mrs. Dogancay. Rated-R movies require written prior parent permission.
Presentation Dates:
1) Monday, June 6
Group 1:
Group 2:
2) Tuesday, June 7
Group 3:
Group 4:
A Identification of knowledge issue
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Did the presentation identify a relevant knowledge issue involved, implicit or embedded in a real-life
situation?
Achievement level Descriptor
0 Level 1 was not achieved.
1-2 The presentation referred to a knowledge issue but it was irrelevant to the reallife situation under consideration.
3-4 The presentation identified a knowledge issue that was in some ways relevant to
a real-life situation under consideration.
5 The presentation identified a knowledge issue that was clearly relevant to the
real-life situation under consideration.
B Treatment of knowledge issues
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Did the presentation show a good understanding of knowledge issues, in the context of the real-life
situation?
Achievement level Descriptor
0 Level 1 was not achieved.
1-2 The presentation showed some understanding of knowledge issues.
3-4 The presentation showed an adequate understanding of knowledge issues.
5 The presentation showed a good understanding of knowledge issues.
C Knower’s perspective
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Did the presentation, particularly in the use of arguments and examples, show an individual approach and
demonstrate the significance of the topic?
Achievement level Descriptor
0 Level 1 was not achieved.
1-2 The presentation, in its use of arguments and examples or otherwise, showed
limited personal involvement and did not demonstrate the significance of the
topic.
3-4 The presentation, in its use of arguments and examples or otherwise, showed
some personal involvement and adequately demonstrated the significance of the
topic.
5 The presentation, in its distinctively personal use of arguments and examples or
otherwise, showed clear personal involvement and fully demonstrated the
significance of the topic.
D Connections
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Did the presentation give a balanced account of how the topic could be approached from different
perspectives?
Did the presentation show how the positions taken on the knowledge issues would have implications in related
areas?
In awarding the higher achievement levels, the emphasis should be more on the quality of the consideration
of connections than on the quantity of connections mentioned.
Achievement level Descriptor
0 Level 1 was not achieved.
1-2 The presentation explored at least two different perspectives to some extent.
3-4 The presentation gave a satisfactory account of how the question could be
approached from different perspectives, and began to explore their similarities
and differences.
5 The presentation gave a clear account of how the question could be approached
from different perspectives and considered their implications in related areas.