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Learning law in the 21st century BY IAN COUTTS ILLUSTRATIONS BY CARL WIENS, I2IART.COM
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aw is changing,” says Bill Flanagan. The Dean of Queen’s Law is speaking from experience. After more than a decade as Dean and a quarter-century teaching at the school, he’s witnessed a number of changes to the profession and instruction of law. And the pace of change, it seems, is accelerating. “Let’s look at how I work with my students, and how that’s evolved, particularly in the last few years,” he says, opening a laptop in his fifth-floor office in Macdonald Hall. A web page shows a list of people in his classes. “This is a platform that shows me which students are strongly engaged and which students might be struggling,” he says. “They raise questions online. I can use polling in the classroom – I have a number of tools at my disposal to ensure they are making the most of their time in my classes, tools I’ve never had access to before.”
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