EE

Reflections on EE

• Research: Technological Determinism and Cybernetics in the Cold War

• Outline: EE Outline 20210112

• Text: EE本文

• Notes and logs on the Extended Essay (EE)

• (The EE is like a thesis for the IB)

http://xmltwo.ibo.org/publications/DP/Group0/d_0_eeyyy_gui_1602_1/files/Guide_Extended_essay_en.pdf

• Notes on History EE

  • Make sure to critically examine your sources.
  • Use primary sources extensively in your EE.
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• Evaluation criteria for choosing a theme

  • The theme should have a sufficient number of sources.
  • It should be related to your thoughts on computers.

• Notes on World Studies EE

  • This website provides a good overview: https://libguides.westsoundacademy.org/wsee

  • Choose a topic with global significance.

    • Focus on social issues.
    • Use an example from a specific region to illustrate a global problem.
    • It should have a TOK-like aspect of moving from concrete to abstract.

  • Choose two IB subject areas.

    • One of them must be a subject you are studying.
      • History, Physics, or Chemistry, perhaps.
    • The other can be ITGS or Information Technology.

  • Why Local manifestations

    • • It may illustrate a local manifestation of the issues of global importance.
    • • It may offer an opportunity to explore the complexities of the issue in a manageable way.
    • • It may document “best practices” and offer lessons beyond the local focus.

• Ideas

  • Non-technology-friendly people and calm technology-oriented thinking

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Below are logs 2020-10-3 I learned a lot from the teacher’s email, so I took notes.

• Read books and literature.
• The topic is just a story.
• The research question should be more specific and critically examine the story.
  • A good research question connects the topic to the historical context at that time.

2020-08-11

• Still haven’t decided on a research question, it’s getting urgent.
• What I want to explore is
  • New media/interfaces (History)
    • How did they come into existence?
      • Something influenced their development.
      • For example, art (might be too heavy)
    • The form
• I was thinking of doing History, but World Studies might be better.

2020-07-21

• First meeting with the teacher.

• We talked about connecting interfaces with history and doing something.

  • I felt like the teacher understood what I wanted to do, which made me happy.
  • We need to define this.
  • There was also a discussion about how it could be related to Apollo.

• The teacher told me to make a plan.

  • So I made one.

• Teacher: Just as there are limitations to experimental equipment in science EE, there are limitations to the time spent reading sources in humanities EE.

• The teacher is a social studies teacher in the secondary section and has also taught IB English and History in the past.

• The teacher has done research on the influence of Marxist thought on anthropology in the Soviet Union, which overlaps a lot with Technological Determinism and Cybernetics in the Cold War.

• The teacher has also done a lot of research on Japanese history.

• The teacher is also interested in the history of computers as a hobby, which is perfect.

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2020-06 Submitted plan Honestly, I’m not confident it will work, but if it seems promising, I’ll delve deeper.

I would like to study the effect of historical ideologies on the development of science and technology. I think this would be I haven’t decided what ideology/science I would write about, but I have a few ideas.

Possible Ideologies:

• Socialism (Marxism / Stalinism)
• Dialectical materialism (might be too philosophical)
• Imperialism
• Liberalism

Possible Science events/fields

• Space Exploration of the Soviet Union from 19XX to 19XX
• Development of physics in the Soviet Union from 19XX to 19XX
• Apollo Project
• ARPANET (ancestor of the internet)

RQ: To what extent did {ideology} affected {particular field or event of science} in {year}.