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Reading around postmodern theory, <strong>and</strong> encounters with West (see e.g. 2004) had encouragedme <strong>to</strong> ‘play’ with ideas, theories <strong>and</strong> <strong>to</strong>ols. So I ‘played’ with the letter ‘i’, wondering what itmight st<strong>and</strong> for in iPod. Various words emerged from th<strong>is</strong> reflective process: interactive,integrated, intelligent, international, internet-based, innovative, inspirational <strong>and</strong> so on.Clearly, the ‘i’ in iPod was intended <strong>to</strong> identify the device with its user. Th<strong>is</strong> was, in technologyterms, the pinnacle of personalized computing. The user could accumulate, arrange <strong>and</strong> accesstheir choice of entertainment at the flick of a wheel. Applied, in the context of Education, a usercould accumulate, arrange <strong>and</strong> access – at their own convenience <strong>and</strong> in their own <strong>time</strong> – thosematerials <strong>and</strong> activities they required <strong>to</strong> advance their own personalized learning agenda.Since the constant riposte <strong>to</strong> my home department’s invitation <strong>to</strong> teachers <strong>to</strong> engage inprofessional learning activities usually included <strong>some</strong> complaint of a shortage of <strong>time</strong>, or lack offinancial resources <strong>to</strong> go ahead with the activity, I began <strong>to</strong> see the potential of truly online,personalized learning. What if CPD could be interactive (technologically), integrated (in<strong>to</strong> ateacher’s professional <strong>and</strong> personal life), intelligent (in other words based around researchinformedpractice) <strong>and</strong> international (drawing on insights from around the world, even if theparticipant could not travel) I wondered? Elsew<strong>here</strong> I argued, that these 4 ‘i’s, when <strong>take</strong>n<strong>to</strong>gether <strong>and</strong> enabled technologically could render a powerful professional learning experiencefor any teacher – I named the nascent model i 4 PD (Hughes, 2006), w<strong>here</strong> PD s<strong>to</strong>od forProfessional Development. The response <strong>to</strong> th<strong>is</strong> paper was sufficiently positive <strong>to</strong> encourage me<strong>to</strong> play more.I d<strong>is</strong>cussed the value of the model with Glynn Kirkham <strong>and</strong> he suggested a further iteration. Heargued that limiting the number of influences <strong>to</strong> four might reduce the possibilities of the model362Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thes<strong>is</strong> (Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2012)

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