The learningM!X is a blueprint or template in which you can prepare your lessons. It is a blueprint in which you establish structure and ground rules for SRL classroom management in advance. You do this depending on the classroom practices you use. Example, a project-based classroom practice, a theme-based classroom practice, a flexible learning space practice, ... or even your own Misses Brow practice. 

You can put your own blueprint down in a template that is then called, for example, project M!X, theme M!X, or Misses Brown M!X. In it you prepare your learning activities over and over again, in which the students can then work autonomously. The repetition of structure and ground rules provides a unified language and tools that gives SRL classroom management hands and feet. 

The great benefit of such a blueprint is clarity! Because you start working with such a template on a structural basis, week after week, you can commit much better to a consistent approach. You can also learn structurally from that approach and thus adjust the blueprint after a period of use.

Sets. Sets of learning activities allow you to give structure to the learning process. Thus, learners go through this structure time after time and implicitly learn something about the learning strategy behind that structure. For example, by structuring a projectM!X into these 4 sets (orient, prepare, execute, reflect), learners implicitly learn that these stages each have their importance for a learning project. 

Example 2. By placing a set of learning activities aimed at activating prior knowledge in a subject-based learning mix, e.g., VakM!X, at the front each time. Learners implicitly learn that this is an important phase in a learning process. It also gives gentle coercion to the teacher to provide activities each time that aim to activate prior knowledge.

Having an outline for each learner of small feasible learning activities, or tasks (digital, physical, social, individual) is key. 

The learning activity is the cornerstone, the lego-brick of learning M!X.. To achieve ownership in each learner's learning, the learning process must be broken down into small achievable steps that those learners can go through.

Learning activities give an overview of both instructions and tasks, digital and physical, individual and collaborative, creative and reproducive, ... 

Together they provide one single overview in which you can bring all learning resources together. 

But also, because SRL needs good scaffolds and class management, one single overview that you can enrich with didactic rules of play.

Unfortunately, interoperability is still insufficient in the current EdTech landscape. 

Especially when you also want to be able to combine individual learning activities, adjust a sequence, adapt texts of paid e-content and combine this with your own content for your own context, 

We hope this learningM!X concept can inspire the industry to make learning content more:

a. cut up into small individually deployable learning activities b. interoperable
c. editable

Didactic rules of play aim to support the learner in his/her growth toward full SRL-autonomy. Each teacher/team/school can create, invent, adopt/adapt its own rules of play. These are deliberately used to systematically coach/teach SRL skills. Gradually, rules of play can be omitted or adapted, where the learner has acquired more SRL skills in the meantime. In this way you can use these rules to build a learning line for SRL in your learningM!X templates.

Examples:

<self estimation> Provide 2 to 3 levels of estimation in which the learner self-identifies what they need to make underlying learning activities.  follow the instruction moment, work through instructional materials individually. As a teacher, get the overview of who chose instruction and who did not. You can hold learners accountable for their choice according to the results. And suddenly you find yourself as a teacher in a coaching role.

<checking off> by making every learning activity (digital and physical,...) checkable in one overview, both students and you always have an overview of the progress in the learning process. 

<help> you can provide a rule that makes it clear that a learner needs help with a specific learning activity. That way they don't have to sit with their arm up all the time and they can work on another learning activity in the meantime.

<.... my own rule....> there are a lot of possible rules. More so you can make your own or adapt existing rules to your own context. 

You can apply a rule to single learning activities like <checking off> or to sets of learning activities like <self estimation>.

All together, this is the lego of Learning M!X that you use in your own creative way to benefit your own learners needs towards SRL.