How do I use ALV?

Learners Distinguish How to from What to Learn

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A Learners’ View (ALV) is the Straightest and Fastest Path with the Least Number of Steps to Learning, the Oxygen Of Social Life.

How Do I Use ALV?

You use ALV by matching what you do during a lesson with choices learners will likely make while learning your lesson. For example, experimental behavioral scientists tell us that learners will likely pay attention to the color red before the color blue.

Marc Gold painted the side of bicycle parts red that assemblers will see during training to assemble the 15 part coaster brake correctly through 24 manipulations. Teachers use a pen or pencil that leaves red marks to highlight something they want learners to see.

The key to the use of ALV is learner response, not teacher or trainer intent. Learners determine whether instruction matches their choices. When learners respond the way you want them to respond as in the examples of the uses of red, call red a redundant visual cue or a visual prompt.

Quick Start to the ALV Path outlines steps to take promptly to use ALV.

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