Lead, Don't lecture

I found lead don't lecture and Mapping a path for the 3D web to be tied together in many different ways. I looked at how the talks were organized for mapping the 3D web. I was struck when one of the presenters said that they are looking for mountains in the distance and sending people out to see what's there. It is important in education that we continue to look toward the future to see what problems need to be tackled. During the presentations the organizers set aside time for small groups to break away and share their thoughts about how things should be created and organized. In Lead, Don't don't lecture it stresses the importance of letting the students help each other while the teacher is working one on one. I think that more teacher development and staff meetings need to be run was a model where teachers breakdown into small groups then report to a whole. I hope that in the future administrators see that doing things in small groups and letting students talk with each other is beneficial, not poor classroom management.