Monday, December 8, 2014

“Technology provides ever-expanding access to shared knowledge. Therefore, the need to assimilate such knowledge personally is relentlessly diminishing.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?” This is the research title I got for my TOK essay. I am getting stuck with RLS ( Real Life Situations)

Great question! First of all, let's break apart the quote to better understand what is being asked. "Technology provides ever-expanding access to shared knowledge" is basically saying that the more technology there is in the world, the more knowledge is being shared among the people in the world. Technology allows people to share research, opinions, ideas, and viewpoints with very minimal effort typically. The next part of the quote "Therefore, the need to assimilate such knowledge personally is relentlessly diminishing" is saying that, due to technology, people do not need as many experiences or to conduct their own experiments in order to share in this knowledge. Before technology, people needed to have more experiences, conduct personal surveys, go to a library, or work harder to collect the data they needed. Today, that is not so much the case.
I do not know whether you agree or disagree with this statement, but since you posted this question using technology, I would imagine that you are in agreement. For your real life situations in which technology replaces one assimilating knowledge on their own, there could be several examples. First, you could use this question as an example—posting it online and asking for help when you could have potentially surveyed friends and family to collect your own data would support the quote. Other situations could be recruitment for sports: rather than travel across the world or country to view players and their skills, coaches can find film online of the players and review the player in various situations from their office. When writing a research paper, students often access the online notes and analysis from prior research to use throughout their papers, rather than conducting their own research and drawing their own conclusions. There are numerous more examples along these lines that support the quote that you provided in your question. Hopefully these examples give you a start toward coming up with your real life situations.

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