Now that Ive had a few weeks to get to grips with the basics of posthumanism and transhumanism, I have now began to focus more on how the themes are represented within an educational context and what are the arguments involved.

From the Bayne article as well as “Is ‘the posthuman’ educable?”(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01596301003679750#.VM0JGvmsV8E), I can begin to formulate that on one hand there is the ‘humanist’ approach to learning which involves values, emotion as well as incorporating ideas from Maslow (1943) and Rogers (1980), and on the other hand there is this ‘systematic’ approach to learning supported by digital technologies. I hope to investigate these ideas in more depth over the next week.

The Bayne article has also got me thinking about how terms such as TEL have been received in my professional practice. I have always felt that technology is often seen as an “add-on” within some organisations and terms such as TEL can create more of a divide and resistance.