Human vs Robot (Starter Game)
Human vs Robot is a starter game that I devised for 1st yr ToK Students. It has two main aims:
Firstly it is designed to make the familiar unfamiliar, helping the students to start to question some of the tacit assumptions that they bring into the ToK class.
Secondly, it helps the students to start to separate the real world context from the knowledge issues.
It is obviously well suited to use at the beginning of the optional theme knowledge and technology. Like all of these T.O.K. games and starters, the value is in the discussion that you as the teacher can develop from what the students contribute. The resource is very much just a starting point for the lesson. However, if used well it can it has often developed into the whole lesson, and has often taken me into discussions on artificial intelligence, the causation and consequence of technological change on knowledge, and the very function of existence itself.
I'd be super interested to know how you get on with it!
Daniel,
ToKToday