This page turns the video into a StudyIB lesson note you can scan before drafting. Use it to test whether your TOK reasoning is actually specific, comparative, and examiner-facing.
A practical diagnostic for moving from event explanation to TOK knowledge meaning. Target duration: 140 seconds (2:20).
If your example explains what happened but not what it means for knowledge, it is still a story. TOK needs you to turn the event into a claim about knowing.
On-screen text: STORY IS NOT ANALYSIS
If your example explains what happened but not what it means for knowledge, it is still
a story. TOK needs you to turn the event into a claim about knowing.
On-screen text: ASK THE KNOWLEDGE QUESTION
After the example, ask: what does this mean for knowledge? Not what does it mean for
society, history, science, or ethics first.
On-screen text: PICK ONE KNOWLEDGE PRESSURE
Choose one pressure. Evidence, method, bias, interpretation, certainty, perspective, or
responsibility.
On-screen text: TURN EVENT INTO TEST
If your example is about a scientific model, the TOK question might be whether models
help knowledge by simplifying reality or limit knowledge by hiding complexity. Now the
example tests a claim rather than filling space.
Do not treat this as a paragraph to copy. Treat it as a planning and diagnostic tool: check whether your claim has a condition, a knowledge mechanism, a limit, and a reason the example matters.
If you want more annotated TOK examples, examiner-style feedback support, and planning tools, use the TOK Bundle Link.