Day 2 The Clock Project TOK

The Clock Project and how it became a whole-school TOK exercise

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Joan Hammonds

Eirwen Stevenson

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

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Year 12 International students

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Celebrating Chinese New Year


International parents group

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French exchange


Turkey tour


• Something obvious and easy to understand• Visible to parents and visitors as well • Flexible, able to accommodate student

change • Likely to provoke discussion and lead to

questioning of knowledge

How the Clock Project began


How do you define a national group?• Birth• Passport• Allegiance• Cultural links• Language• Parentage• Is Tibet a country if a student from

that place believes it is?


Was this all counter Was placing emphasis on nationality more

divisive than it was uniting?

Is a global perspective of greater importance?


So we purchased 22 clocks..


How do you match clock to country?

• Which clock should represent Australia?

• Do we care? Why?• What values underpin the choices

made?


• Capital• The city with greatest population• Centre of government• Geographic centre• City of origin of most students• What does this choice say of

values?

Time of day where…?


• Why would a country adopt a single time zone?

• Do the benefits outweigh the problems?

• Would it work in Australia?

Single time zones


And the questions continued…..

Helped by a fortuitous delay!


What order should be chosen?

• Left to right?• Ranking by…..?• Australia first? Central?• What values are implicit in making

each choices?


• Which way is up?• Perpetuating false knowledge• Is up better?• Why is the Earth represented this

way?• Do maps lie?

Northern and Southern hemispheres


• At the end of the class, in small groups, you are to present an argument as to how the 22 clocks on the wall should be ordered and labelled. You are to do this using

What the students were asked to do


You have been provided with:

o Guiding TOK questions to considero ‘Clocks’ to label and arrange based on the

group’s decisions in response to the TOK questions

o Cardboard, glue, ‘clock faces’, labels, pen, map with time zones, capital cities list, current times of day list

Your task! to decide how the clocks should be arranged


The final outcome


The final outcome


The final outcome


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