{"id":505,"date":"2012-06-09T10:07:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T10:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/?p=505"},"modified":"2012-06-08T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T10:08:16","slug":"learning-for-the-new-nqs-beyond-the-x-ray-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2012\/06\/09\/learning-for-the-new-nqs-beyond-the-x-ray-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning for the new NQs: Beyond the X-ray machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/2012\/05\/16\/learning-for-the-new-nqs-x-ray-machines-a-20th-century-icon\/\"> X-ray machine is a 20th Century icon<\/a>, is this high tech surgical &#8220;ipad&#8221; an icon for the 21st century? This touchscreen &#8220;operating table&#8221;, the brainchild of Jack Choi of Anamotage, is in use in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-18088337\">UK hospital <\/a>where applications include training future surgeons and planning real-life surgery. Interested in hearing Jack Choi talk about his virtual dissection table? Try this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jack_choi_on_the_virtual_dissection_table.html\">short TED Talk from February 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This could raise some interesting questions for learners: what are the principles behind the imaging techniques used? Is this \u00a360k equipment really an advance over the traditional x-ray?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2012\/05\/natquals17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"natquals\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2012\/05\/natquals17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the X-ray machine is a 20th Century icon, is this high tech surgical &#8220;ipad&#8221; an icon for the 21st century? This touchscreen &#8220;operating table&#8221;, the brainchild of Jack Choi of Anamotage, is in use in a UK hospital where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2012\/06\/09\/learning-for-the-new-nqs-beyond-the-x-ray-machine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10944,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3524,4753,827,608,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-curriculum-levels","category-health-wellbeing","category-sciences","category-technologies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}