What is knowledge? that was what I - in addition to the rest of the class - were greeted with first thing in the morning in TOK. The question seemed simple enough which led me to believe that the answer would be the same. however, as I even began to think of a definition I came to the same conclusion I knew most students were thinking of; knowledge is knowledge. There was no direct way to describe it. That was how our topic for today was introduced....knowledge. we were given a worksheet that discussed the correlation between knowledge and countless other materialistic objects through metaphors. Our task was to take a look at the 6 metaphors provided and find: the benefits or values of this metaphor, and the limitations of the same metaphor in contributing to a definition of what knowledge is. After the brief discussion on our table, we began an activity that consisted of a group of three acting out the metaphor. I found this particularly interesting as it gave us a more visual understanding and interpretation to some of the metaphors. Another bonus was that it was actually fun to act out and enjoy other students acting. Overall I felt that today's topic was interesting and that I was able to fully understand it, well understand it as much as anything can be understood in TOK.
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