TOK presentation planning

TOK Presentation Planning Document

Group member(s): Makena M., Tara H.

Estimated Timing of Pres (10 min. per person):20 minutes

Resource: “Mourning the Death of Handwriting”, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1912419,00.html

Topic : Death of Handwriting

Essential Question: What are some possible implications of the rising “death of handwriting” and works being digitalized?

Planning

1.      What is the real life situation under consideration?

The real life situation that we are dealing with is the fact that handwriting is disappearing. Everything is becoming more digitalized by the day.

2.      What is the TOK knowledge issue (questions) that will be the focus of your presentation? (refer to page 271 in green text to help)

·         What is the point of preserving handwriting?

·         How does digitalized works affect the emotions within the text as opposed to handwritten works?

·         In what ways will the classroom structure change due to the death of handwriting?

·         How will people whose jobs involve handwriting be affected?

·         Will handwritten objects or works be worth more valuable in the future due to the death of handwriting?

·         Why do people consider handwritten works to be less important or more juvenile?

 

Sub topic questions:

·         How will art be affected by the rise of digitalizing? (bringing in art…)

·         Will autocorrect allow us to no longer need the skill of spelling?

·         Is there a chance autocorrect/Siri will become more intelligent than the people who created them?

·         How will our memory be affected due to people not physically writing down information?

·         How will our reliance on technology change due to the death of handwriting? For example…. When the power goes out, then what?

 

3.      Write a summary in note form (like a bulleted list) of the way you plan to deal with the knowledge issue(s)/questions during your presentation. Provide approximate TIME and be specific about TOOLS, EXAMPLES and WHO is doing what. Think about the criteria:

a.       How will you identify the knowledge issue(s)?

                                                                           i.      They are going to be written down in a Prezi

b.      How will you show your personal perspective?

                                                                           i.      we will voice or opinions throughout the presentation

c.       How will you make connections to other Ways of Knowing or Areas of Knowledge?

d.      How will you examine the knowledge claims and possible counterclaims (i.e different perspectives)? Tip: ask yourself, what would someone who disagrees with the claim say, and what reasons would he give? What about someone from a different culture, age group, religion, class, educational background?

e.       How will you examine the implications of knowledge?

f.        If there is bias, how will you examine that? What about assumptions and presuppositions?

 

Type of Presentation: PREZI, pictures, and possible videos J

Items you will need (e.d handouts, costumes, script, projector): smartboard, projector

Pros and cons of the death of handwriting:

Pros:

·         Everything is much more faster and efficient

·         It wouldn’t get lost on technology

·         Everything looks so much more professional

·         Communication is available to many more places and much faster than if you were writing a letter

·         No longer needs to be excessively taught in school—doesn’t need constant practicing but can focus on different topics

·         Everything is easy to read, while handwriting could have been messy

·         Could be helpful to the environment—we would use so much more paper if handwritten than if typed

·         Humans always looking for an easier way—technology/printing is the easy way

Cons:

·         Handwriting no longer an art

·         Not as personal

·         Almost like losing personality?

·         Is it good that everything now looks professional/ important?

·         People who analyze handwriting will have nothing to do and nothing to analyze…

·         Takes away from personality

·         Handwriting is an art—other languages words and the way those words are written are beautiful and will be lost

Implications

·         Something printed usually meant something professional—now everything looks professional

·         With everything being digitalized, we are relying on technology

·         What happens to the people whose jobs include handwriting?—like calligraphists and people who determine what someone’s personality is like through handwriting

·         Autocorrect—spelling is going to go down the drain