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T<strong>here</strong> are also 'bugs' in the domain of teachers' professional learning.My point <strong>is</strong> a simple one. Continuing Professional Development programmes in the 21stCentury must be tied <strong>to</strong> professional learner's needs. If you don't have an interactive whiteboardin your classroom, training for use in their functionality <strong>is</strong> pointless. If you have remote <strong>and</strong>d<strong>is</strong>persed learners without internet access on your programmes, t<strong>here</strong> <strong>is</strong> no point training <strong>to</strong> use aMLE. If on the other h<strong>and</strong> - as <strong>is</strong> now the case with every teacher in a school in Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong>Wales - you have <strong>to</strong> be able <strong>to</strong> track <strong>and</strong> moni<strong>to</strong>r the individual progress of your pupils fromtheir 'attainment on entry', via their data-driven expected progress targets, through <strong>to</strong> their end ofKey Stage outcomes, you need definitely <strong>to</strong> be trained in the use of online databases, CSV <strong>and</strong>SQL technology <strong>and</strong> the ability <strong>to</strong> manipulate data via spreadsheet technology.CPD programmes that are not integrated in<strong>to</strong> the working lives of teachers, nor based on theirprofessional needs <strong>will</strong> not sell, however high-minded the aspirations of their designers <strong>and</strong>facilita<strong>to</strong>rs. <strong>It</strong> <strong>is</strong> in th<strong>is</strong> context that, as I come <strong>to</strong> the end of the formal part of the study, I amcurrently working. Moreover the need for 'intelligent' programmes had never been moreimportant than in 2006, though I would argue now that they are even more so. By intelligent Imeant then (e@t 0 ) <strong>and</strong> still mean now (e@t 1 ) that computer technology (artificial intelligencebeing a relevant metaphor as well as the more traditional metaphors of intelligence-led policingor nursing), should be a central component of CPD programmes. As was seen in IM2 <strong>and</strong> IM4,such CPD programmes should also be interactive in my hypothes<strong>is</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>by</strong> th<strong>is</strong> I meant - <strong>and</strong> stillmean now - that teachers could <strong>and</strong> should learn <strong>by</strong> interactive methods. T<strong>here</strong> are two aspectsof th<strong>is</strong> <strong>to</strong>o. First t<strong>here</strong> <strong>is</strong> the obvious human interactions that are axiomatic in knowledge coconstructionpost-Vygotsky (e.g. 1954); but also the interactivity that <strong>is</strong> perfectly enabled <strong>by</strong>221Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thes<strong>is</strong> (Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2012)

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