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Our biggest challenge – Lauren Carter and Louise Peplow, teachers

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    • Lauren Carter and Louise Peplow, teachers at Hitherfield Primary, discuss the difficulties that arise when the technology aspect fails in day to day ways – for example the school laptops cannot download Zoom, which is the platform they use to make their daily videos (“and so I to beg and borrow technology from housemates to do that”). It makes the job harder and can feel disempowering.

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