Reflection for the first three activities; World Map, Map Metaphor, and Video Activity

 Reflection on TOK activity’s

1) World Map Activity:-
During this activity I learned many things. This activity helped me understand the main concept of
personal knowledge and shared knowledge. It also made me re visit the world map. It taught me to
rely on different sources but also on yourself. The objective of this activity was to come up with
answers to two questions after we had finished the activity. It was kind of like a reflection for the
activity. We were made to give the information based on how we drew our first version of the world
map. That really made us think properly and find out the common points we had used to draw our
maps. I feel it does use prior learning as we have accessed sources based on what we have
previously known. I had faced difficulties in recollecting the structure of the original world map
from memory, because I have not spent much time studying the original world map. It was hard to
remember at first, but then i had done a few things in childhood apart from just looking at it. That
helped me form a vague idea. I had built a puzzle when i was a kid. That helped me recollect and
draw the picture. A different type of learning approach tends to male things easier for children to
learn.

2) Map Metaphor Activity:-
In this activity we were asked to come up with a metaphor for knowledge. We had to relate the
thought process of knowledge to something in real life or something around us. For example, my
metaphor was; “Knowledge is a tree.” By that metaphor I meant, The knowledge that we gain from
sources such as the environment influences our growth and so the tree grows as time passes. A tree
sheds it’s leaves and grows new ones, as we remove knowledge we think is wrong and replace it
with something we think is correct. This happens due to external sources influencing us to change
the knowledge and our way of thinking. The same way that that trees shed their leaves due to
external sources or factors such as weather. This enhanced my thinking skills and the objective was
to understand the definition if knowledge in our own way. Over all the activity was very helpful and
it made it easier for children to understand the meaning of knowledge using this metaphor.

3) Video Activity:-
In this activity I had not filmed a video, but I had made a document based on a picture that I had
drawn. This activity was to investigate how we gained the knowledge to carry out this specific
activity. This activity was also supposed to teach us about personal and shared knowledge. I had
wrote an article about it afterwards. This really helped me enhance my thinking and visual skills. I
had drawn a portrait of a girl. The techniques that I had used had been from gradual learning and
experience through different sources. The objective of this activity was to understand the difference
between personal and shared knowledge and also be able to identify which types of knowledge you
used and where you have applied it. Drawing the picture was quite challenging but I enjoyed the
challenge. This activity was informative and fun at the same time. I learned many new and different
things.