An initiative in Liverpool looking at ICT has taken practitioners into new territory, says project developer Ann Langston of Early Years Matters.

From TV to DVD, phone to video calls, washing machines to gaming stations, the presence of technology cannot be ignored. It was this knowledge that led a group of Liverpool settings to embark on the Digital Journeys Project, funded by the local authority and led by Early Years Matters.

Helping me and other Early Years Matters advisers to develop the project was Colette Bentley, a member of Liverpool School Improvement Service, and Jo Hitchmough, also from the service and now an infant school headteacher. Like me, Jo strongly believes that technology should be integrated into teaching and learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

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