How can eLearning remove barriers found in a traditional classroom?

This week in our course, I learned several pros and some cons to why eLearning can remove barriers (or create barriers) found in a traditional classroom.  As a second grade teacher, I am still a bit confused as to how this can work in my classroom.  It might take some more time for me to wrap my head around this concept.  However, I think in any classroom there could be benefits to eLearning. 

While exploring what blended and online learning is this week, I can see that many schools across the US and other areas are using onling learning as part of everyday learning in the classrooms.  I feel that this is a trend that is only going to rise.  While the students in my second grade classroom use onling programs to help with the learning (www.studyisland.com, and www.readingeggs.com), I am not for sure that these would qualify and online courses.  While the students are learning, these sites are not really teacher lead.  I do have access of assigning material for the students to learn and I can provide feedback.  However, I am not the creator of the material that the students are learning.

Several Pros to using eLearning:
1.  As a student using eLearning in my classroom for the first time, I can see them being exctited, even willing to try this new method of learning. 
2.  This type of learning can provide Differentiated Instruction to students.  Meaning that they students can work at their own level on the skills needed to successfully learn the material. 
3.  This type of learning can provide multiple ways of learning the material from watching short  videos, to reading and researching material.  While some kids learn best by reading, others learn best by watching or doing.
4.  This type of learning provides studnets to work at their own pace.  If a student needs to review material, they have the opportunity to go back and watch the videos again, or reread the material.
5.  Teachers can spend more time helping students.  For example, a classroom teacher can meet with smaller groups of children at one time if need be.  Based on student need.  Some students might not need as much help as other students.

I can see these as pros in my classroom, however I really see eLearning starting at the highschool level and trickling down.  At my school, I believe our highschool already uses several forms of eLearning.  To my knoweldge, some of our highschool students take college courses via eLearning.  These studnets recieve college credit upon the completion of these corses.  I think just like online coures.  I think the professor visits and assists them once or twice a week as well.  Because I teach second grade, I am not for sure of the exact process of these college courses, but this is to my knoweldge.

Our fourth grade teacher is very excited about going one-to-one next year.  I have heard him toss around the idea of "flipping the classroom" as well.  He wants to have the students learn their material at home and then come to school and work on the work.  He would have to provide lessons for the students to watch or read at home.  I think he might use an apple app called itunesU to put videos on.  I am not familiar with this app, but I think he might use it.

Some of the cons I can see in my second grade classroom are similar to the myths I read about during exploration this week in the reading iNACOL International Association for K-12 Online Learning.   Maybe these are just questions instead of cons.  I am sure if I actually tried eLearning in my classroom, some of these cons would be elimanited.

Some Cons to using eLearning:
1.  Students lose face to face interaction time with other peers.  While they can connect via text and online blogs, students don't get that face to face interaction.
2.  Students really have to be self motivated.  Becuase they don't really have anyone telling them to get busy, get busy, they have to have self motivation.  I think for second graders, it might be hard for them to learn how to manage their time. 
3.  Teachers really have to know the material and plan for online learning (not that we don't plan now), but there really isn't any room for "off the fly" teaching. 
4.  Is there any fun to be had in online learning?  Is there any room for the learning that takes place in a normal classroom based on student discussion and interaction?  How will students do group projects? 

I think for students in grades K-12, if going to eLearning is the now and future of learning, students still need the opportunity to meet regulary with a classroom teacher and other peers.  While many college studnets can be driven to complete course work completely online, elementary and highschool studnets might not be as driven.

While I think eLearning can be a great opportunity, I would like to see an actual classroom that uses blended learning (especially in the elementary) and then try it out in my own classroom.  This will give me a better feel for how well it will work.