Author: Mark Donald

Many people in the 21st century are concerned that technology will soon replace human intelligence and some educators feel that there will no longer be any students to teach if this happens. Educators fear that advancing technology will overtake the tasks and abilities of a teacher making them obsolete. However, this is not true because education will never disappear regardless of the state of the globe – it will merely appear in different formats. This article will provide information on what learning will look like in the future.

• Diverse Places and Times

One of the greatest benefits and most obvious features of future learning is that students have more options regarding learning schedules. E-learning resources allow students to engage in self-paced learning from remote locations; therefore, classrooms will be flipped from traditional classes to online learning from diverse places. The student can learn theory from anywhere at any time, …

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The thumb is subjected to high loads during a lifetime. The pivotal point is the thumb saddle joint.

It hides itself in the thumb ball and allows the rotation of the entire thumb and the opposing of the thumb to the other fingers (so-called opposition). An arthritis of this joint is called rhizarthrosis and is relatively frequent: 10% of women over 50 years are affected, in men, this type of osteoarthritis is less frequent.

Symptoms

“I can not open a bottle.

Objects suddenly fall from my hand.

Sometimes I have pain in the back of my head or at night.”

Diagnosis

By a simple X-ray examination in 2 planes. This shows a narrowing of the joint gap, possibly also emigration of the thumb from the saddle joint, sometimes cystic changes in the interior of the bone.

The passive movement of the joint creates pain and provides important information about the …

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