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IB Theory of Knowledge Topic 1.2 Optional Theme: Knowledge and Technology (SL/HL) covers syllabus content. Use these Notes to review the topic, practise exam questions, and move between notes, videos, flashcards, and lessons where available.
1.2.1 What counts as technology
1.2.2 Tools that extend perception
1.2.3 Instruments and mediated observation
1.2.4 Recording, storing and retrieving knowledge
1.2.5 Search and the shape of what we find
1.2.6 Algorithms and recommendation
1.2.7 Attention as a condition for knowing
1.2.8 Machine learning: what it does and does not do
1.2.9 Can a machine know anything?
1.2.10 Machine outputs as evidence
1.2.11 Bias in and out of systems
1.2.12 The digital divide as a knowledge problem
1.2.13 Privacy, surveillance and knowing about people
1.2.14 Who is responsible for machine-made knowledge?
1.2.15 Technology and the future of expertise
1.2.16 Assessment bridge: technology in the exhibition