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E-learning at Epsom Girls

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Discovering tomorrow together

Claire AmosDirector of e-learning

What is e-learning?

The Ministry of Education defines e-Learning as learning that is enabled or supported with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT).

Source: www.minedu.govt.nz


Why is e-learning important?

Information and communication technology (ICT) has a major impact on the world in which young people live. Similarly, e-learning has considerable potential to support effective teaching approaches.

Source: New Zealand CurriculumDiscovering tomorrow together


E-learning can assist the making of connections by enabling students to enter and explore new learning environments, overcoming barriers of distance and time

Source: New Zealand Curriculum



E-learning can facilitate shared learning by enabling students to join or create communities of learners that extend well beyond the classroom

Source: New Zealand Curriculum



E-learning can assist in the creation of supportive learning environments by offering resources that take account of individual, cultural, or developmental differences



E-learning can enhance opportunities to learn by offering students virtual experiences and tools that save them time, allowing them to take their learning further.


Preparing our girls for their future!



Shakespeare had 24,000 words to work with


Eminem has over 1,000,000 words


1,000 words are added every month


The average student will have 10-14 careers


15,000 songs = 100 grams


They live in a world of instant information


They live in a world of instant communication


They live in a world of instant entertainment


They live in a world of collaboration


They live in a world of social networking


They live in a multimedia world


Does this sound like this classroom?


Or this classroom


Are we preparing them for this?


Or this?


Their world has changed.


Their world demands new skills


Are we teaching them?

Source: Adapted from

‘Education Today and Tomorrow’

by Tom Woodward


Benefits of e-learning

Benefits to school learners with access to e-Learning include:

Motivation and engagement

Independence and personalised learning

Critical thinking and multiliteracies

Access to information, resources and experts

Source: ‘e-Learning and New Zealand schools: a literature review’ by Dr Noelene Wright


Epsom Girls Grammar SchoolDiscovering tomorrow together

Do not confine your children to your own

learning for they were born in another time.

- Hebrew Proverb


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