Guernica - go here - read this - respond as you see fit...

http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth200/guernica.html

Questionnaires and Psychometrics

Go here and try this...

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes3.asp

This is what I came out as...

 You are:

• moderately expressed introvert
• distinctively expressed intuitive personality
• slightly expressed thinking personality
• moderately expressed perceiving personality

...it's totally wrong.

Have a go, read the questions, answer them carefully, post your profile in a post and then answer the question very carefully and with thought.  Refer to specific aspects of the questionnaire in your response.

Question

How close did you feel the outcome was to your personality type?

Very simply...why doesn't this questionnaire work at all (for some people)...maybe?

Find Out Friday

Carl Gustav Jung

(Not Java Universal Network Graph)

http://www.cgjungpage.org/

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/carl_gustav_jung/

http://www.freudfile.org/jung.html

Key Terms

Archetypal Symbolism

Collective Unconscious

Using the above websites (and others) explain what you understand these terms to mean.

Tasks

Everyone should post an understanding of these terms.

Everyone should post some thoughts on these terms.

Everyone should post one other website that they found informative (not Wikipedia)

Off you go...

It's Just a Just War Theory

http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/treaties-customary-law/geneva-conventions/

The Geneva Conventions

As a group using the above link and building on each other's posts complete an investigation into the Geneva convention.  Read each other's posts before posting.  Investigate the site and post findings.  What is the convention?  What does it mean tot he world?  Who adheres to it?  Who doesn't? 

Post both findings and your thoughts on these findings.

Susan Sontag - Further Investagation

Susan Sontag References

•         http://www.susansontag.com/prize/2010Winners.shtml

•         http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/dec/29/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries

•         http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/susan_sontag.html

You have all been given these references as hard copy.

For your self-study please follow all three, they will help you to get a better picture of who Sontag was and what she stood for.  The websites will help you frame her work and hopefully will promote further thought.

Task

Visit the sites and consider their content

Either by posting an extract from a site or by summarising your findings, indicate something that you found interesting.

Make a personal comment about your findings.  Try to make a comment about how these websites may make you view her work.

Always be mindful of bias.  Comment on the reliability of your source.

Susan Sontag

Clearly Susan Sontag was a wise woman.  Her writings are intelligent, sensitive, thoughtful, reflective and at times revolutionary.

I do not ask you to agree with Sontag but I do ask that you engage with her work.

Task

Read the rest of the extract from AIDS and its Metaphors

There will be lines in there that challenge you.  Personally I find some of her writing a complete assault on basic understandings that I thought were accurate; a total challenge to some of my fundamental thinking.  This can only be a good thing.

Post some of the lines that you find most interesting.

Write a comment on them. Justify the choice of quotation.

Form and post a theory of knowledge question that relates to the quotation.

If music be the food of love...play on

Theory of Knowledge is everywhere.

Theory of Knowledge applies to everything.

What types of 'ways of knowing' are expressed through music?
What forms of knowledge are located in songs?

Many songs are written about personal experience. 
How far is experiential knowledge valid?
Is experiential knowledge more or less valid than scientific knowledge, say?

The music we like tends to mean something to us on a personal level.
Can we learn through empathy?
Can we learn through intuition?
Do we trust the opinion or message of someone we relate to more easily?
Should we?

Task

Post a few lines from your selected song
Tell us what it is and who it is by and where it is from
Explain why you selected the song
Post a few theory of knowledge style questions based on the song

Make some somment on the questions and ideas expressed above.

Seafood...No Food

http://endoftheline.com/

This week's blog task is more closely linked to the lesson content.

Visit the website that accompanies the film we discussed today.

If you were interested in the content of the film and if you are concerned about the issues that it raises join the mailing list.  Stay informed; this is a current global issue and will belong to your generation.  Stay informed; general knowledge is good knowledge; knowledge of current affairs broadens the mind - it provokes thought.

Now think about an issue that you care about; an issue that concerns you; an issue that has touched your life (perhaps).  Find a relevant campaign site where people can sign up to receive e-mails and include this in your post.  If you cannot find a 'join e-mailing list' link then post a link to the relevant page.

Your post should include.

Whether or not you joined the endoftheline mailing list and why.

A link to a mailing list relating to another issue and your interest in it.

Maptastic

http://www.worldmapper.org/

This site was recommended by the person who trained me to be a ToK teacher.  It is an outstanding resource and one which I visit regularly.

Each student is to visit the site and spend some time figuring out how it works.

Each student will post a finding and two questions.

A finding is a discovery, something that you have found out, a piece of information, a factoid.

The questions must start with the words...

How far is it true to say....

and

To what extent...

...and should be related to the finding.

To what extent is self education the best type of education?

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/

Ongoing Self-Study Programme

Part 1

Each week our lessons will begin with a short presentation from one of the students.

This presentation will last only a few minutes and will tell the group about a documentary that you have chosen and watched from the above website.

The presentation should include...

What it was called.
What it was about.
Where it was from / who made it.
Your reactions to it.
How reliable you think it is.
Whether you think it is biased.

and...

Questions that it raises in your mind.

You have to type what you are going to say and present it to the class.

You also have to copy and paste this text into a comment to this post.

Simples.

Enjoy.