Australia's 10 Most Influential Education Leaders-2019

A REFORMATIVE UNISON
WHERE CHALKBOARDS AND DIGITAL SCREENS COEXIST
For over two decades, E-Learning has been hailed as
‘the’ solution that will drive educational reform and
displace the dominance of classroom learning, as we
know it. Despite the potential of E-Learning, to personalize
instruction, enable scalable solutions and develop new
learning skills that will be vital for the future workforce,
E-Learning has not yet redefined what we understand
school to be. E-Learning and classroom learning must work
in coalition and not competition.
that enable complex communication, successful
collaboration, enhance critical and creative thinking and a
personalized learning experience. The right technology
tools when combined with appropriate deployment and
training for teachers can offer new opportunities for student
learning and so make a valuable contribution to any
classroom.
E-Learning, flipped learning, online learning, blended
learning; each offers a different point of entry for teachers
Students at St
Margaret’s and
Berwick Grammar
School experience
Virtual Reality.
Bringing new
experiences into
our classroom
environments that
were not previously
possible without
technology
In our content rich and connected world, it is vital for
young people to think critically and interrogate sources of
information. Knowing how to ask good questions to
discover knowledge and build an understanding, is essential
st
to learning success in the 21 century. Put simply, learning
how to learn. This can be achieved through E-Learning that
is designed to purposefully leverage digital technologies
to introduce technologies into their classroom environment.
Direct instruction, debate, brainstorming, setting learning
goals, while all these are seen as traditional approaches,
each can be enhanced with technology.
The following are examples of effective strategies that
combine E-Learning with traditional classroom learning:
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