Looking back at the first week of the course and the Manifesto (Bayne et al. 2020), reminded me of a discussion that has been ongoing within some of the sessions our Programme does with GP Teachers. The sessions we do are lunchtime discussions really with different groups of the GP Teachers, some of whom have […]

One of the newer things that we have been doing with our learners at the CEP is using reality televisions as a tool for learning. There are a surprising amount of (reality) TV shows that involve medics and the clinical environment. Some use has also been made of dramatized medical TV, but the use of […]

Thinking about a ‘teacherbot’ like the one that was described in Bayne’s article (Bayne 2015), has made me realize there are many different angles that need to be looked at. What would the use of such a bot mean for the job of the teacher? Would this type of educational technology be seen as contact? […]

Having looked at an example of the theories of instrumentalism and essentialism in a previous blog, I want to try and come to grips with posthumanism by using a similar format. Critical posthumanism is the way forward in the debate around digital education and the use of technology, according to Bayne in her article about […]