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AntiDuckface - 8 views

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      Good naming on this! 
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    @AdamClark71: RT @guentheralex: http://t.co/uNVRzoDC
Adam Clark

BBC News - Japan defence firm Mitsubishi Heavy in cyber attack - 7 views

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      What observations do you have about the language choice in the title of the article? Is it neutral?
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      What emotions are conjured by the image to the right and the bold text sentence to the left?
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      What are your eyes drawn to naturally in this article? How has sense perception been influenced by what you are visually drawn to? Does the visual presentation have any other impact?Is there anything significant in terms of "knowledge" by the visual impact of the whole page? 
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  • The ministry will continue to monitor the problem and conduct investigations if necessary
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      How would you describe the language used here? Aggressive? Passive? Why?
  • "It's up to the defence ministry to decide whether or not the information is important. That is not for Mitsubishi Heavy to decide. A report should have been made,
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      What emotion do you sense here? Who said it? What's their relationship to the issue? Why might they want to portray a certain attitude? Is the tone they took effective? Why or why not?
  • China is one of the main victims of hacking... Criticising China as being the source of hacking attacks not only is baseless, it is also not beneficial for promoting international co-operation for internet security
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      Do you think this a valid reply that appeals to reason? In other words is this a logical reply to the accusation that China is behind these attacks?
  • hacking as a potential act of war
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      What significance would classifying hacking as "a potential act of war" hold for future international relations between the US and other nations? Which WOK would you use to address this question?
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      These points are grouped in a section? Do you think thy are related? Why or why not?
  • A typical DDoS attack involves hundreds or thousands of computers, under the control of hackers, bombarding an organisation's website with so many hits that it collapses.
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      Apply reason to this paragraph. What significance do you think this has for the whole story?
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      After all this what is the bottom line of this article? What can we claim to know having read it?
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    This is the article for the Typhoon Day lesson
Adam Clark

Paradigm Shift - YouTube - 6 views

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    We watched this in class as an easy to approach look at paradigms and paradigm shifts. What was this person's paradigm before the glasses were given to him? What was the shift he experienced? How would you describe his paradigm following the shift? What paradigm shifts have you personally experienced?
Adam Clark

Sex selection in babies through PGD: Americans are paying to have daughters rather than... - 3 views

  • Mothers like Simpson are using expensive reproductive procedures so they can select girls.
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      Please read at least to this point in the time allotted.
  • amily balancing
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      Look at the role of language in this approach. What do you think? Is the change in terminology effective? Is it ethical to "troll" forums and change the name to make gender selection more socially acceptable.
Rebekah Madrid

Monoculture: How Our Era's Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives | Brain Pickings - 1 views

  • What Galileo has to do with the economy, or how Wall Street is moulding your taste in art.
  • The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser famously proclaimed.
  • During the Middle Ages, the dominant monoculture was one of religion and superstition. When Galileo challenged the Catholic Church’s geocentricity with his heliocentric model of the universe, he was accused of heresy and punished accordingly, but he did spark the drawn of the next monoculture, which reached a tipping point in the seventeenth century as humanity came to believe the world was fully knowable and discoverable through science, machines and mathematics — the scientific monoculture was born.
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    Could be a great jumping off point for a presentation.
Adam Clark

Vividness Of Perception And Creation Of Vivid Memories Linked To Emotion - 1 views

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    Psych article about emotion, perception, and memory.
Rebekah Madrid

Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity | Brain Pickings - 1 views

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    "combinatorial creativity"
Adam Clark

Allegory of the Cave - 1 views

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    A short succinct description for students who may be struggle with the idea of Plato's Forms.
Adam Clark

Medical Ethics: What is it? Why is it important? - 1 views

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    Might be useful for anyone interested in biology and ethics.
Adam Clark

TOK Class Page - 1 views

shared by Adam Clark on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
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    The official site of ToK at YIS. Tons of great information on this site about everything we study in ToK
Adam Clark

The Reliability of Sense Perception - 0 views

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    William P. Alston 1993
Adam Clark

CLC Technology Requirements | Classes | Who Is Adam Clark - 0 views

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    Setting up technology this morning for TOK as part of the CLC #ibtok #YIS
Adam Clark

Bloom's Taxonomy - 0 views

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    Higher Order Thinking
Adam Clark

Article: Straw, Lies & Errors - 0 views

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    Straw, Lies & Errorshttp://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=2444(Sent from Flipboard) ...
Adam Clark

MGreenonhiphop.pdf (application/pdf オブジェクト) - 0 views

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    Rap Music and Sense Perception
Adam Clark

The Eyes of Nye - Pseudoscience (Season 1, Episode 2) - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Great program. Think of it as a somewhat more mature version of Bill Nye The Science Guy."
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