“Online childcare” is also affected by corona. Nursery teachers and kindergarten interact on the net May 22 15:28

Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, efforts are being made to promote interaction between nursery teachers and kindergartens through the Internet in order to have children who cannot attend daycare or kindergarten have fun at home.

A nursery school in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, provides a childcare service using an online conference system for 30 minutes on weekdays from last month.

The nursery teacher spends time enjoying the exercises and singing English songs while talking to the children at home through the screen.

The company that runs this nursery offers around 200 facilities such as a nursery providing these online nursery services.

It also means that while working from home, they also provide support for childcare concerns over the telephone to support parents who are raising children.

The mother of the kindergarten said, "While going out is difficult, there are various menus such as singing and dancing, which is very fun and is a plus for children."

Maiko Todoroki, president of Poppins, which provides online childcare services, said, "We started online childcare because we wanted to support the daily lives of children and reduce the burden on parents working from home. I think hybrid-type childcare that integrates will become a part of everyday life. "

On the other hand, the use of services that distribute videos of nursery teachers, such as dances and hand-plays, taken with smartphones to children and parents is expanding.

The mechanism of this service has been provided free of charge from an IT company in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo this month, and has been used by more than 700 facilities including nurseries nationwide so far.

Kazuhiro Yamauchi, the director of Kameido Kindergarten in Koto-ku, Tokyo, who is using the service, said, `` I feel that it is fun for the children that the teacher who wants to meet is talking to them through the video, and I feel rewarding. I was talking. "

Daigo Iketani, president of "Smart Education," the IT company that developed this mechanism, said, "I would like to develop a mechanism that enables live distribution and two-way communication in the future."