TOK Presentation Reflection 1

Reflection on TOK Presentation of Floruen Tu and Callum McEachen

Knowledge Question: To what extent is scientific knowledge reliable?

Their presentation was brief and used limited words which allowed them to have more explanations in their speech. The real life situation chosen was the illuminati conspiracy in Atlanta. During the snowstorms in the USA, some people performed an experiment on the snow and found that if you held a lighter to it, it did not melt and black soot marks appeared on the snow. They then claimed that this was because there were chemicals and plastic in the snow that were designed to control our minds. These theories were then debunked by others, who explained that the melted water was being absorbed by the sponge-like structure of the snow, as well as sublimation.

The area of knowledge that was studied was natural science and they used reasoning and faith to explore their knowledge issue. They concluded that these areas and ways of knowledge are useful to determine the extent of the reliability of scientific knowledge. Something special about this TOK presentation was that they explored 2 other real life situations that are related to the knowledge issue that was brought up.

Floruen and Callum's presentation can be improved if it incorporated more TOK vocabulary and explored more areas of knowledge related to the real life situation. I believe the area of human science and language are possible Theory of Knowledge fields that could be incorporated for a more detailed presentation.