AISG’s First TOK Exhibition

On Thursday, April 29th after school, AISG’s first TOK exhibition took place in the theater foyer.

The TOK exhibition is the newly introduced internal assessment for the IB core class Theory of Knowledge. Every IB diploma student is required to take this course that aims to “make student’s aware of the interpretive nature of knowledge, including personal ideological biases – whether these biases are retained, revised, or rejected.”

The exhibition is one of two assessments in this course, with the other being an essay, and the exhibition makes up one third of a student’s TOK grade. The exhibition involves choosing a knowledge question from a list of questions provided by the IB. An example of a knowledge question is, “How does the context in which knowledge is presented lead to the acceptation or rejection of knowledge?”

After choosing a knowledge question, students then choose three objects that they think link to the knowledge question in some way, usually objects that they think answer the question presented. Then, commentaries are written to justify why each object was included in the exhibition.

Finally, after printing out each commentary and setting up a display for the three objects, students present their exhibition in the theater.

TOK student Andrew Z. said, “I thought that the process of preparing for the exhibition was quite difficult but the end result was worth it.”

Savyasachi S., another TOK student had similar thoughts on the exhibition, saying, “I enjoyed the actual exhibition day a lot, I think it was interesting to see what all my classmates had prepared and getting to go around and listen to their justifications was interesting.”

It is unknown whether the school will continue to host a large exhibition for TOK, but hopefully incoming TOK students will have something to look forward to.