We can make student learning paths playful by harnessing the power of curiosity, voice, and choice through personalized learning playlists. A personalized learning playlist provides a list of resources (videos, readings, experiences) and lets students choose which ones to explore based on their learning preferences. They move through the content at their own pace, similar to how they’d use a music playlist. 

Principles of Universal Design are blended with technology and flexible learning options to meet the needs of all learners while allowing teachers time and space to provide targeted feedback to individual students.

Play is inherently political. If I say “we need to let children play freely” then I’m also saying “parents need to be making enough money at their jobs to be able to come home and hang out with their kids for unstructured hours in the evening so the kids aren’t being shuffled from care service to care service.” I’m also saying, “teachers need to be paid enough and trusted enough to be capable of breathing without over-standardizing everything the children do.”