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