September 12, 2011
Today we read an article and talked about what what science education should really teach. The article stated that students should learn to detect bad science instead of learn about factual science. I, however, disagree with the article because after we know what bad science is, it doesn't necessarily mean that we know what good science. As a result, we still don't know what is good science.
September 14, 2011
Today we talked about whether scientists should be responsible of the inventions. I personally don't think that scientists should be responsible for their work unless their intention in the first place was meant to be bad. However, that poses another issue because how can we ever know the scientists' intention?
September 20, 2011
Today we did a social science claims activity in which we had to evaluate the two statements with their certainty, validity, and the difference of social science law to physical science law. As a result, I came to the conclusion that social science laws aren't universal and changes according to the situation and individuals. This shows that social science laws are limited compared to physical science laws. Hence, I think that when we learn about a social science law, we have to be aware of its validity because the laws may not necessarily apply to us.
September 22, 2011
Today in class we were divided into four groups to form four surveys of two topics with either positive or negative responses. We then had to send our surveys to other groups. By doing this activity, I realized that language can be very manipulative in order to steer people's responses towards one direction rather than the other. I think learning ToK is useful because we learn about how we should always be aware of the validity of the knowledge and information that are presented to us.
September 28, 2011
Today we watched two ToK sample presentations in class. I think the sample presentations made me a little scared whether my group is doing the right thing. We have our topic and knowledge issue, but I'm not very sure whether we are evaluating our main knowledge issue in the right way (or deeply enough). More work has to be done!
September 30, 2011
Today we went to Mr. Isley class because he was going to talk to us about psychology as an Area of Knowledge. He introduced the three parts of personality - id, ego, super-ego. I think it's a little bit daunting about how there are actually three parts of our personality instead of one. I wonder...if there's only one part of personality in our mind, then maybe we are easier to understand. But if just either one of our parts exists, that would be very scary, especially if only our id is the only of our personality.
October 4, 2011
We continued psychology with Mr. Isley and he told about the ink block test. The ink block test is used by psychologists to help them diagnose their patients' sicknesses. However, when the test is tested by the scientific method, the test is actually said to be not very valid and not very reliable. This emphasizes that social science is very subjective and that it could be dangerous if patients are diagnosed wrongly.
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