Teaching children 21st Century skills in child care

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Community contribution / May 9, 2018

Technology has changed dramatically in the past 30 years - and we can only expect it to continue evolving.

Given this never-ending change, it is important to prepare our children for the future and give them at least a ...

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Mark Woodland is the founder & CEO of Xplor, a multi-platform childcare software system for the education sector. He founded Xplor 2015, after working in his mother’s Melbourne childcare centre and serving in the Australian Army. While working in his mum’s childcare centre, he was frustrated with the outdated systems and level of admin. He took a “very small problem” and came up with a very big solution to revolutionise the childcare sector. Woodland went on to open two more early learning centres in Melbourne. Mark is included in KPMG’s top 20 Australian Twitter power list.

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