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Research: Technological Determinism and Cybernetics in the Cold War
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Outline: EE Outline 20210112
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Text: EE本文
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Notes and logs on the Extended Essay (EE)
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(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
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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.
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Notes on World Studies EE
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This website provides a good overview: https://libguides.westsoundacademy.org/wsee
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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.
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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.
- One of them must be a subject you are studying.
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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.
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Ideas
- Non-technology-friendly people and calm technology-oriented thinking
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
- How did they come into existence?
- New media/interfaces (History)
- I was thinking of doing History, but World Studies might be better.
2020-07-21
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First meeting with the teacher.
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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.
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The teacher told me to make a plan.
- So I made one.
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Teacher: Just as there are limitations to experimental equipment in science EE, there are limitations to the time spent reading sources in humanities EE.
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The teacher is a social studies teacher in the secondary section and has also taught IB English and History in the past.
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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.
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The teacher has also done a lot of research on Japanese history.
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The teacher is also interested in the history of computers as a hobby, which is perfect.
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}.