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History KI

1.       To what extent is emotion important in historical interpretation?

2.       To what extent can history be considered true?

3.       What is the scope of the reliability of historical interpretation using only logic and reasoning?

History

Though God cannot alter the past, historians can.” - Samuel Butler

I definitely agree with tis statement because I recognize that history is extremely subjective, and a subject that depends a lot on authority. The past is the past, it is true, and what really happened is inalterable and absolute. But how we tell it and understand it afterwards is not. As history students, we rely on the interpretation of professional historians, or learned scholars to learn about the past. We trust them because they are experts and have years of studying a certain matter, so much that they can write a school text book. However, sometimes we forget that there are many things that can alter or influence a historian’s interpretation of historical events. For example, a German historian might have a slightly different take on WWII than a French one.

The way we see the past greatly affects the way we see the present, because the history of relationships between countries for example affects the individual view of people in a  country (for example, Pakistan’s and India’s history). Historians can manipulate evidence to change the way people see the past, and therefore, theoretically ‘’change the past’’, even though the actual events will not change.

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To what extent is knowledge gained in mathematics different/similar than that gained in history?

Mathematics and history are very different subjects for many reasons. History is based on interpretation of facts, figures and events, and mathematics is a universal invariable system. Therefore, the knowledge that is gained in history is different from that gained in math.

For example, there are always different answers in history, and many ways to see one event and understand it. Opinion is allowed and important in the knowledge of history. I can, for example, think of Mussolini as an incompetent opportunist while somebody else might say he was a visionary leader by using different data interpretation. This is means that facts in history can be manipulated to suit an idea in particular, and that my knowledge of history might different greatly from anyone else’s’. In math, on the contrary, I can’t convince anybody that 6=1 in a natural number system, no matter how many facts I base myself on because 6=6 and that is a universal knowledge. Mathematical evidence can’t be manipulated, and it is universal, because the answer is always correct or incorrect.

All in all, mathematics and history are very different because history is based on subjective knowledge and interpretation, so the knowledge gained will depend greatly on where we learn it, whereas mathematics it is a universal system that must be the same for every mathematician in the world.

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Is mathematics discovered or invented?

                Mathematics is both discovered and invented. Everything in the universe is independent to human control and knowledge, and the existence of all the relationships between quantities and numbers exist and have existed before men decided to use them. When humans first started to notice these relationships, they discovered them and decided to make use of them. This is why they invented a concept to pin it down: mathematics. This is the part of math that is invented, a system of numbers and ideas that we can understand universally. The symbols, ways of getting to answers and rules were invented by men, but the existence of relationships, quantities, and patterns exists independent of human invention. All we did is discover it and invent a language to understand it.

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 KI SCALE

GOOD                     To what extent can the 6th sense                                                                                   be trusted as a way of knowing, and why?

INTERMEDIATE     Should we believe in paranomal activity?

POOR                      Does the paranormal exist?

NOT A K.I              What is the 6th sense?

RL SITUATION      A film on haunting.





GOOD                     To what extent does the media affect our perception of certain world issues, and  can                           we trust it?

INTERMEDIATE     Are the news saying the truth about the Swine Flu?

POOR                      Is the Swin Flu likely to kill millions?

NOT A K.I              What do we mean by an epidemic?

RL SITUATION      A news report on the Swine flu.





GOOD           To what extent is individuality important as a way of developing  self-perception in  highschoolers?      


INTERMEDIATE     Is Miss Anne right about thinking that we shouldn't wear uniforms?

POOR                       How useful are uniforms?

NOT A K.I              Wearing jeans in school

RL SITUATION      An interview with Miss Anne.





GOOD                    To what extent is reason a limitation for the true perception and analysis of art?

INTERMEDIATE     Can we trust our interpretations of art?

POOR                      Is art subjective?

NOT A K.I              What is art analysis?

RL SITUATION      An emotive art piece.

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Chutes and Ladders

                

This communicates an emotion.

     Language is one of those things that are both a hindering and an aiding factor in communication. Because of language, we are able to exteriorize feelings, needs emotions and all sorts of ideas. Language helps us understand the world, and is completely natural to organisms. Language comes built in. For example, a venemous snake warns other animals that it is dangerous with its bright colors. Also, if it wasn't for language, all the information that we have discovered throughout the years would be lost. We would have to constantly do it, over and pver again, with no hopes of  passing it down to another generation so they can ellaborate on it. The advances we have achieved in our society have been possible through the passdown of information through language.

            

             In order for an effective communication to happen, all the elements involved have to have the same code of language to able to interpret it and understand what the message is. Since language is so antural to us, we often communicate things without even noticing, for example through body language. This is where it gets tricky. Non-verbal language is open for interpretation, and people might decode our gestures in a way different than the one we initiaally meant. This is a hindering factor of some sorts of language, it is SUBJECTIVE. Similarly, in literature, we often get lost in the understanding of what the author is saying through ellaborate statements such as metaphors and allegories. Since it can have an infinite number of interpretations, it remains open for them. However, objective codes of language may also be a hinder to effective communication. For example, איך בין גוט might mean nothing to you. But for someone who speaks yiddish it means ''I am good''.
  
               All in all,  language is a vital, and unevitable, part of our nature. If we learn to use it effectively, we can communicate many ideas and advance and progress in  our learning. If we get lost in translation, or too caught up in the subjectiveness of it, we will not be able to understand or exteriorize ideas.

             The final example for this is is, you might or might not understand the meaning of the title of this entry.