+ Powerful Learning Practice

There is a lot of discussion online about how educators don't properly understand the potential of technologies (social networking, blogs, wikis) that their students are using. Because they don't know the technology, they can't teach their students how to use these applications properly.

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson have taken action and started the PLP Network - Powerful Learning Practice. From their site:

Powerful Learning Practice offers a unique opportunity for educators to participate in a long-term, job-embedded professional development program that immerses them in 21st Century learning environments. The PLP model is currently enabling hundreds of educators around the country to experience the transformative potential of social Web tools to build global learning communities and re-envision their own personal learning practice.

To execute their vision, PLP combines face to face workshops, online courses, and the power of an online community to teach educators these tools. To learn more, check out their site.