Mr. Kuykendall's online classroom
So. You’re smart kids right?! RIGHT. As smart kids, you of course LOVE reading interesting articles, thinking about them, and then sharing your new found thoughts, understandings and wonderings with your friends! Right!? Right. So, check out the thought provoking pieces below and choose 1 to …
ISIS is horrible. Evil. Terrible and Destructive. But no one debates this fact. What they do debate is what to do about it? Will putting troops on the ground and initiating a massive offensive against the group and the land they hold be akin to …
Download the Learning Helper below and use the articles linked below to facilitate your understanding of the ways in which culture can affect our cognition: Sociocultural_Effects_on_Cognition University of Michigan research on the perceptual differences of Americans and Japanese: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/080800hth-behavior-culture.html Research on how language can affect …
We’ve been discussing in class the intellectual reaction to the industrial revolution. As thinkers, you know that every major historical event can be viewed via multiple perspectives, and depending on the perspective through which you view the event, your interpretation of that event/phenomena will vary. …
Opening the Door to Editing Memories: New research at the BLOA may one day give us the option! Read the excellent article below that contains within it excellent research and background information regarding the role of biological processes in memory formation (interaction between physiology and …
The 2016 Titles are Here and Copied Below!! But before you get writing, you gotta get unpacking! Use the document linked below, above the titles, to work to unpack one of the questions below! I will assign you to a question! unpacking 2016 titles
Review for French Revolution Exam!! Jeopardy Questions for French Rev Test: Jeopardy The following is a list of terms and concepts that you should know for the exam…what it is and why it is significant. This is NOT a comprehensive list! Terms: San colouttes, girondins, …
Read the following two pieces of stimulus material and then respond to the accompanying questions in your TOK online Journal. Read the following re: Economics: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/nobel-prize-economics-not-science-hubris-disaster Questions: What WOKs do economists use to construct knowledge? If their knowledge is unreliable, and they use the above …
Based off our last document analysis of Robespierre’s speech to the national assembly legitimizing the terror, it’s clear that we need to increase our Doc Analysis Fluency! So, download the file below containing the documents to be analyzed as well as the file below containing …
In order to address this learning outcome, we’ll look at studies by Richard Davidson of the AMAZING UW-Madison. This one from 2004 in which he analyzed the brain waves of monks versus non meditating indivuduals and found that Monks produced more gamma waves which contribute to …