Day 2 The Clock Project TOK

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Joan Hammonds Eirwen Stevenson

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

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Celebrating Chinese New Year

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International parents group in.

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French exchange

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Turkey tour

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How the Clock Project began

• 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

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How do you define a national group?

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Birth Passport Allegiance Cultural links Language Parentage Is Tibet a country if a student from that place believes it is?

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Was this all counter

Was placing emphasis on nationality more divisive than it was uniting?

Is a global perspective of greater importance?

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So we purchased 22 clocks..

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How do you match clock to country?

• Which clock should represent Australia?

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

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Time of day where…?

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

Single time zones

• Why would a country adopt a single time zone?

• Do the benefits outweigh the problems?

• Would it work in Australia?

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And the questions continued‌..

Helped by a fortuitous delay!

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What order should be chosen?

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Left to right?

Ranking by…..?

Australia first? Central?

What values are implicit in making each choices?

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Northern and Southern hemispheres Which way is up?

Perpetuating false knowledge Is up better?

Why is the Earth represented this way?

• Do maps lie?

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What the students were asked to do • 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

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Your task! to decide how the clocks should be arranged

You have been provided with: o Guiding TOK questions to consider o ‘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

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The final outcome

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The final outcome

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The final outcome

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