Method and Perspectives in Technology

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The official list of TOK perspectives in technology
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• How are online or virtual communities similar to/different from “traditional” communities of knowers?
  
• Do social networks reinforce our existing perspective rather than boosting our engagement with diverse perspectives?
  
• What impact has the fact that English is the primary language of the internet had on knowledge sharing?
  
• How has technology had an impact on how we browse, search and filter data and information? Can algorithms be biased?
  
• Is big data creating a new cognitive paradigm?

The official list of TOK methods and tools in technology questions. 

• How does technology extend or transform different modes of human cognition and communication?
  
• To what extent are technologies, such as the microscope and telescope, merely extensions to the human senses, or do they introduce radically new ways of seeing the world?
  
• Is artificial intelligence restricted to processing information or can it also allow machines to acquire knowledge?
  
• How does computation help people to process data and information to gain knowledge?
  
• What is the difference between computational thinking, algorithmic thinking and critical thinking?
  
• How do the tools that we use shape the knowledge that we produce?