IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

"aprendemos mas de la personalidad humana y la conducta humana leyendo una novela que un libro de psicologia cientifica" 

.:la ociosidad es el ideal del genio y la pereza la virtud romántica:.

can you please type in english

Hi there

Please feel free to use any language for postings on this site.

The site is set up to be accessed in the three IB working languages - English, French and Spanish. When it was launched we made sure we had postings in all three languages, plus some in Chinese - in which the MYP is taught in some schools.

But you can post in any language, even though only some people will be able to understand.

It is good to see posts in Spanish - the language in which a significant proportion of IB students study and sit examinations for the IB.  

Boyd Roberts

"we learn more about human behavior by reading a novel than researching in a scientific psiocology book."

well, i thought about this while reading Pride & Prejudice. there are so many things about the way all the characters act, that you can see the different way a human being reacts to the situations of life. we can see how they deal with their issues, and you can analize how they act; understanding the human mind rather than investigating in scientific books.

.:la ociosidad es el ideal del genio y la pereza la virtud romántica:.

Hi, i'm Florestela and muy school just got accepted in the IB...cool right?  Well i would love to hear more about this website because i haven't got used to it...

Hi Florestela

Welcome to this site.

It has been set up for the whole IB community (including IB teachers and school administrators, IB staff and IB students and their parents), but it has a particular purpose.

This is to engage with the community theme - sharing our humanity - and specifically to a number of important and urgent global issues.

"About the community theme" tells you more about the theme itself.

"About this site" explains the purpose of this site and how it works.

We hope you will explore some of the posts here to find out more about the issues of the theme, and some of the ways members of the IB community are engaging with these issues.

Boyd Roberts

hey ociocienta, I like the way you think, please... tell me more about it, because I share some of your thoughts, I agree that it is quite interesting the human mind and their diferents reactions, but what you´re saying about being lazy... are you lazy? do you think lazy people can live well? I mean, I´m very lazy, do I still have a chance in life? please, explain yourself!

take care!

Hey,

 My EE topic is: "Which Aspects of Bertolt Brecht are still Influential in the Western World Today?"

:) 

My EE Topic is Renewable Energy Sources Practicality and Reliability. Though I am still looking and thinking for ideas for my EE, I was wondering some others because I also have 'Bread Baskets' of the World and there managability to prodcuce and feed the worlds population or like otehr Food Sources like farming or aqua farming fish. Hey check it out you can put Greek letters Σ!

heylooo. i'm new (:

anyways, we've just started with the EE's. just got my supervisor today in fact (:

anyways, i'm doing my EE in history. was thinking along the lines of eugenics... not sure really.

"Compare how Chinua Achebe and Doris Lessing use the rolesand points of view of the three main characters in their works “Anthills of theSavannah” and “African Laughter - four visits to Zimbabwe” to expose thefaults in their respective post-colonial governments?"

It's a working title  Is anyone else finding it hard to stick to one subject when you're writing your EE? I keep finding myself making comments about politicians like Mugabe... which really isn't a 'literary' enough focus... 

Hi All

I'm a chem teacher in Surabaya (Indonesia). For my students, I always expect them to explore something that happens surround them. The topic of EE should something that they aware and if possible give solution. We really expect them to arise local issue that may effected on global issue, such as pollution, water crisis, etc

What do u think?

i'm a junior, so i haven't really gotten to the whole deciding on my topic for my extended essay. but what i have been thinking about was something in either the english department or the psychology department. for english, creative writing sparks my interest. for psychology, i'd like to research dreams versus reality. but who knows? i might do something in science!

any pointers or suggestions?

oh and to hasto, researching something about current global issues sounds very good. but who am i to judge?

i might even go in that direction....

hi im ana, you can call me bananaa, im an i.b student at george washington highschool; im a junior.

 im new to this site, so i dont really know what to do.

so, we're doin the e.e in our school; i dont really know what the point of it is but i have to do it :[ and i still dont have a topic nor do i have a clue as to what we have to do; im a big time procrastinator (spell check). if anyone has any suggestions or knows what to do can help.

please and thnk you:] 

Hi there

thought it might be useful to fill you in on some background. 

This site has been specifically set up for the IB community theme.

The IB community consists of everyone associated with IB – including IB
staff, teachers, students and parents. The IB community theme
encourages all members of the community to become engaged with certain
key global issues – grouped under the heading “sharing our humanity”.
These issues are global poverty, education for all, global infectious
diseases peace & conflict, the digital divide, and disasters &
emergencies.

“About the community theme” tells you more about
the whole project, and “About this site” explains the role this site is
playing in the project.

The site is for the IB community to share
resources, ideas and opinions all related to these global issues, and
to report action taken by members of the community that relate to the
global issues. Why not have a look at these two sections, and also at
some of the posts that are here that relate to the global issues of the
theme, and the ways in which IB schools have been responding?

During October, IB is encouraging IB World Schools
to teach a “global lesson” on poverty, and the lessons and accompanying
materials are posted here on the website.

Is this IB website the place for all these comments?

Perhaps try some of the "unofficial" sites for IB people set up by indiivduals elsewhere?

Boyd Roberts

for the community theme team

To What extent was the failure of operation Barbarossa the reason the Germans lost the Second World War?

Basically I am considering the war between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and trying to decipher how important it was in the failure of the Germans in WW2

hehe where you going with that obie? Some of us do not speak internetz or computerz you know!

am looking for teachers in IB , interested in exchanging views in teaching french.

***Fatimah***

How do the ideas of the United States government affect our relations with other countries?

This is pretty cool!  I'm a junior at Mount Saint Mary Academy (Arkansas) I'm thinking something along the lines of Coco Chanel and Women’s Fashion Liberation of the 20 th Century

Hi there

We've just been reviewing the community theme website, to make it easier for people to find their way around.

As part of this, we've decided that the Blog should be used just for information from IB, and comments or responses to this.

So if you wish to continue the discussion on extended essays, please set up a forum for this.

The community theme website is intended for the IB community to share resources, ideas and reports on addressing global issues.

But until the new IB virtual community sites are set up, we're letting people use this site for other things.

Boyd Roberts

for the community theme team