Flexible Thinking in the Theory of Knowledge

This session will demonstrate Theory of Knowledge lessons that allow students to compare the ways that various thinking skills function within multiple areas of knowledge. Several activities allow students to reflect more powerfully about their own thinking by helping them break down simplistic ideas. (e.g. the idea that artistic thinking relies on emotion while scientific and mathematical thinking rely on reason.) Session attendees will participate in a lesson on the nature of historical thinking that can then be extended into an assessment of scientific thinking. These lessons can be used in TOK or they can be used as interdisciplinary lessons in the subject areas.