Workshop
ALIVE Learners:
Making thinking visible
ALIVE Learners are curious, think aloud and treat uncertainty and mistakes as expected parts of making progress. These habits matter more than ever when convincing answers can be generated in seconds. The finished product is no longer reliable evidence that thinking has taken place.
This hands-on workshop explores how to create a culture where learning is made visible and the process of discovery is valued as much as the final product.
The session introduces five habits of learning: Asking, Listening, Interpreting, Validating and Exploring.
Through activities and discussion, participants examine the questions they ask, the behaviours they reward and how they respond when someone is still working something out.
“Just tell me what to do” is a learned response to environments that reward correct answers over curiosity.
Who is it for?
Teachers and education leaders
Learning designers and facilitators
Learning and development professionals
Anyone exploring how assessment, feedback and generative AI are changing what counts as evidence of learning
Format
Available as a full-day or half-day in-person or online workshop.
The content can be adapted to groups of different sizes, and educational, organisational and professional learning contexts.
What participants will leave with
Activity ideas to help make learning visible
Participants experience a range of activities that encourage thinking aloud and can be adapted to almost any learning context.
Five practical habits for active learning
An understanding of Asking, Listening, Interpreting, Validating and Exploring (ALIVE) and how these skills support curiosity and learning.
A redesigned learning interaction
Participants gain an understanding of how their questions and responses impact learners' curiosity and participation.
A small experiment they can use immediately
A practical opportunity to examine and improve an interaction from their own context, commit to a change they can apply immediately in their own context.
Bring ALIVE Learners to your organisation
The workshop can be adapted to your people, your working environment and the conversations your managers most need to handle well.
Explore the thinking behind ALIVE
ALIVE is developed further in Still Learning: How Curiosity Keeps Us Human in an Uncertain World.
