May 3rd - End Of TOK Presentation - Topic Chosen

After referring back to the knowledge issues in TOK, my partner and I have found that the most appropriate topic to do is: To what extent are religious and ethical teachings a sufficient form of education?

Presentation Date: 31st May

Group Number: 5

Things we can talk about:

• Specify to two religions: Catholicism and Islam
• Set up debate format where we carry out a mini-debate about whether or not religious and ethical teachings are a sufficient form of education
• Organize it to look like the Doha Debates (Make a Poster, Get audience to ask questions)
• Everyone gets involved

This house believes religious and ethical teachings are a sufficient form of education

Points in the Debate [For]:

• Religion demands for respect and compassion to prosper between people
• Everything you will ever need in life would be mentioned in your religion anything else is up for interpretation
• Religious schools do not make you shallow, for they give you enough information on different areas of life
• No matter what the religion is, they will ask for the same things and they will have the same message, but the way in which people are asked to do may be different

Points in the Debate [Against]:

• Does it create close-minded people?
• Does it cause people to have extreme ideologies with a lot of bias?
• It depends on how you are brought up and your experiences rather than religion

May 3rd - End Of TOK Presentation

How do we present?

Once we choose a topic, we must present our work in a creative and fun way to the rest of the class.

• Movie?
• Poster
• Skit
• Group Activity
• Games about Ethics
• Psychology games

These are just a few ideas on the possible ways in which we can present our information, once we decide on a final topic.

May 2nd - End of TOK Presentation

There are many ways to approach this oral, personally, I'd like to do something that I am relatively informed about in order to make my presentation more interesting not only to the audience but also to myself, as nobody wants to work on something they are not interested in.

Possible Ideas:

• To what extent is globalization harmful to culture and traditions?
• To what extent are institutes of higher education pointless?
• To what extent are religious and ethical teachings a sufficient form of education?

These are just a few topics that my partner and I might consider for our oral presentation. However once we decide on a certain question we must go back and relate our topic to a knowledge issue and also a relate this to a real life situation.