The purpose of the Personalized Learning Pathways: Empowering Ownership, Creating Purpose, and Realizing Impact playlists and modules is to provide personalized, customizable learning experiences centered on adult learners as agents of their own learning. By living this experience as learners, educators will have the mindset and skills to transfer this experience to their young learners, resulting in increasing students’ deeper learning capacities.

Jennifer Gonzalez is the creator of Cult of Pedagogy, a website with a blog, podcasts, videos, and more. She has multiple podcasts that tie to playlist-based (or modularized) learning on the site. Cult of Pedagogy is an excellent resource for you as you explore shifts toward anytime/anywhere learning that empower teachers and students to think and create beyond brick and mortar. Please consider exploring the site in more detail.

• Words will often be BOLD if they are part of how learners are engaging with learning experiences or if they are key language in the context of a playlist or module

• You will notice that the structure of each module is similar in that each module contains:

  • • A title, one or more competencies, learning outcomes, and what you will do in the module

    • A learning pathway with learning tasks organized by your learning behaviors and responsibilities 

      • • This includes Launch, Learn, and Reflect sections

        • Many learning pathways include self-assessments to let you customize where you enter the learning

    • Module resources (videos, podcasts, slide decks, templates, protocols, examples/non-examples, etc.)

    • Additional virtual/blended learning considerations (these are often embedded in the learning pathway as well)

    • A checkpoint (self-assessments, quick checks, peer feedback opportunities, reflection questions, etc.)

    • A celebration of learning

• Playlists with multiple modules take time and planning to navigate with confidence; making a plan before you start will help the process be manageable and meaningful 

  • Module 4 of the Virtual/Blended Learning Playlist of this site includes tools for navigating the playlist and its modules such as:

    • • Metacognition prompts

      • Sample project planning tools that help increase productivity

      • Checklists for organizing the scope of the work with other timelines

      • Video tutorials for maximizing the Google Suite during this learning process

• Each "Start Here" page has a clickable Playlist Navigation Panel for the playlist that includes the modules and their competencies, learning outcomes, and what you will DO in each module