Visible ThinkingDesigner

For tertiary and vocational educators

A learning-design workbench

Design learning that leaves thinking visible.

Bring one real task. Identify what the finished work cannot show. Leave with a focused plan you can use tomorrow.

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This tool uses AI to support your design. You decide whether AI belongs in the learner activity.

Central questionWhat thinking needs to remain with the learner?
1

Attemptcalibrated to readiness

2

Questionsupported by guidance

3

Checkgrounded in the discipline

4

Explain judgementtested through follow-up

5

Applyunder changed
conditions

Selective and recursive—not five compulsory steps.

Three starting points

See the method across different work.

Each example is editable. They demonstrate range without becoming fixed templates.

01

Practical performance

Flat white under pressure

Make sequencing, sensory checking and adaptation visible during a busy café service.

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02

Applied professional interaction

A dissatisfied client

Reveal interpretation, emotional regulation and professional judgement inside a role-play.

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03

Academic synthesis

Workplace wellbeing report

Make framing, source selection, synthesis and revision visible around a short report.

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What you leave with

An editable Visible Thinking Plan.

01 Three to five consequential moments—not more documentation.

02 Feedback connected to what the learner does next.

03 Workload, equity and surveillance cautions made explicit.