2nd semester blog topic #2

1,000-1,500 words; due by midnight, Friday, February 19. Live blog to follow on Monday, February 22nd. Write your entry on your own blog and post the link to that entry here as a comment.

“This rubber tree won’t yield latex—the biologist blames the sapling, the geologist blames the soil, the contractor blames the unskilled labourer and the owner says it is fighting back at being controlled.” (Amitav Ghosh) If different Ways of Knowing or Areas of Knowledge yield contradictory statements about the world, on what basis do we choose among them?

Why teach science?

2nd semester: blog topic 1

1,000-1,500 words; due by midnight, January 29. Live blog to follow on Tuesday, February 2nd. Write your entry on your own blog and post the link to that entry here as a comment.

Our senses tell us that a table, for example, is a solid object; science tells us that the table is
mostly empty space. Thus two sources of knowledge generate conflicting results. Can we
reconcile such conflicts?

Blog #3

750 words (or more); due my midnight on Sunday, December 13.

“Doing the right things starts with knowing the right things.” In what ways does responsible action depend on sound, critical thinking?

TOK Blog #2

750 words or more; due by midnight on Friday, November 6.

Evaluate the ways in which emotion might enhance and/or undermine reasoning as a Way of

Knowing.

Join us for our live blog session on Friday, November 19 at 7:15 Mountain Time (GMT-7:00) to be a part of this discussion.

1st blog

Here is your first blog for the year. Due by midnight on Friday, October 16.

Should a knower’s personal point of view be considered an asset in the pursuit of knowledge, or an obstacle to be overcome?

Join us on Monday, October 19 from 7:15 a.m.-7:55 a.m. (MST/GMT -7:00) for a live blog session discussing this question.

Truth

Please join us on Friday, September 11 for a live blog event. Topic: Does absolute, objective Truth exist, or is it all relative and subjective? What do we mean by "Truth," anyway?