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Nursery Management: Technology - What’s changed?

From using Tapestry in new ways, to contacting parents via Zoom, and other tech innovations, Joanne Parkes asks how Covid-led changes to practice look set to be long-lasting

Necessity is the mother of invention, and with lockdowns and families self-isolating over the past 18 months, many early years settings have found themselves embracing a range of technology to support their businesses through a challenging time.

Live and pre-recorded video for stories, singing and activity inspiration were among the most at-hand methods that quickly took off to sustain home learning links with families unable to access their usual early years settings.

Some settings say that since then, they have become even more tech-oriented. The pandemic has led them to implement approaches across the areas of parental communication, management and practice that they feel will endure.

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