Publish at January 11 2022 Updated January 20 2022
Are some subjects impossible to teach at a distance? Some, including music, seem more difficult. Yet, with the covid-19 pandemic, music teachers have had no choice but to start teaching classes without attendance. An obstacle, to be sure, but one that can be partially overcome with many online tools.
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Simulation as a Teaching Tool for Future Doctors
Of all the university faculties, the ones that have benefited most quickly from new technologies are those of medicine. Simulators have quickly been perfected and have become tools to improve medical gestures. The human aspect also benefits from these simulations since future doctors can train to act properly with patients in situations they know nothing about.
Exercise competence up to and including control of the learning environment
When an administration leaves control of the environment and execution to those whose competence it has recognized, the school adjusts and the teachers become involved. Taking the logic a step further, once students are recognized as competent to study, why take away their control of their study environment, which includes both their organization and how they go about it? Why can't they choose online courses in high school?
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Addressing sexual and gender diversity in the classroom
Taboos are slowly being broken about sexual and gender diversity. Society is slowly recognizing people who experience different attractions or who no longer see gender in the same way. Moreover, even science is pointing out the limits of binarity. Nevertheless, the subject still creates discomfort. How to talk to students about these minorities? It all comes down to education first and instilling the notion of respect.
