Would You go to a Doctor who Has Not Progressed

Recently with a group of community members I was having a conversation regarding personalized learning and one community member brought this very point up that made me think.....he asked would you want to go to a doctor that your mother went to as a child and have him do the same medicine and practices?  He continued to ask the group would you want your children only to communicate the way we did, with letters and phones plugged into the wall.  He probed the group to consider a world in which to shop you have to leave your home, no quick amazon prime.  Why did he ask these things you wonder???  We were discussing personalized learning!  Some of the community members were sharing the statement "when I went to school we sat in rows and memorized things, and that was good enough, I turned out just fine".  The debate and conversation was a very engaging and healthy one and it did make me think.  Education, like all other professions should innovate and explore new practices and we should not rely on what worked for us as children.  I do realized the unknown of personalized learning is fearful, but I encourage you to see it as an exciting adventure.  As we shift to personalized learning it by no means that every classrooms will be full personalized, we know some students do not respond to that type of environment.  Please keep an open mind and continue to take risks.