This workshop shifts participants from practising design thinking themselves to facilitating it with students, and assumes prior familiarity with the vocabulary and process. It opens by examining where AI quietly breaks design thinking rather than demonstrating what it can do. Across two days, participants diagnose where AI strengthens and degrades each stage of a student project, design an age-appropriate challenge aligned to curriculum outcomes, and build a custom AI facilitation assistant carrying their method, rubrics, and student context.
Further sessions cover scaffolding empathy research and consent practice for students, managing synthesis at classroom scale, assessing design thinking credibly by separating process from product, handling academic integrity, and building the school-level case for the approach.
Day One moves from practitioner to facilitator; Day Two covers prototyping, assessment, and scaling. Participants leave with a complete, ready-to-run unit with lesson sequence and scaffolds, a tested facilitation assistant, a workable assessment rubric, and a facilitator move card of failure points and backup moves.
Learning Outcomes
By the end you will be able to
Day One: From Practitioner to Design Thinking Facilitator
Day Two: Prototyping, Assessment, and Scaling
Target Audience: All Educators
Dr Jim Wagstaff has called Singapore home for nearly 20 years. He is an educator and entrepreneur whose practical experience, teaching practice, and research expertise centre on digital pedagogy–specifically, the application of AI in teaching and learning. In 2018, Jim co-founded Noodle Factory, an AI-powered teaching and learning platform designed to support differentiated instruction.
Jim earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Liverpool (UK). His ongoing research focuses on how educators can reliably and safely harness the power of digital capabilities to support teaching and learning. Jim has also earned his post-doctoral diploma in academic practice in coordination with the Fellowship for Higher Education in the UK, where his current work includes action research related to the impact of generative AI in teaching and learning.
Through his work with Noodle Factory, Jim has the opportunity to work with teachers and instructors at all levels of education across many disciplines and faculties. Jim has advised and assisted dozens of secondary and tertiary educational institutions and educators in applying generative and conversational AI to teaching and learning. These include institutions and educators in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Jim is also currently involved in supporting the work of action researchers studying the impact of generative AI in teaching and learning at the University of London, Lusófona University (Portugal), and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) in Singapore.
AI in Education Professional Development Series
Empowering Educators to Teach, Learn, and Lead inthe Age of Artificial Intelligence
Overview
This AI in Education Professional Learning Series is a cohesive set of one-day professional development workshops created in partnership between the Principals Academy and Dr Jim Wagstaff, co-founder of Noodle Factory and author of AI-Assisted Teaching and Learning: A Generative AI Field Guide for Educators. Each workshop focuses on a different dimension of AI’s role in teaching and learning — from foundational understanding to advanced integration and future readiness.
Designed for teachers across subject areas, these workshops balance academic rigour with classroom practicality. Participants will explore hands-on applications of AI, learn to evaluate and adapt digital tools responsibly, and build confidence in aligning AI use with sound pedagogical frameworks such as R.A.T., KAT, and Constructive Alignment. Every session blends demonstration, discussion, and design-based activities to ensure that teachers leave with actionable strategies ready for immediate classroom application.
The series supports the MOE’s broader vision for ethical, effective, and future-ready use of technology in schools — equipping educators to lead innovation, enhance inclusivity, and improve learning outcomes through thoughtful use of AI.
Course Code: JW121326
Topic: Mastering Design Thinking with AI
Presenter(s): Dr Jim Wagstaff
Dates: 12 to 13 November 2026
Time: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
Venue: To Be Advised
Closing Date: 25 September 2026, Friday
Workshop Fee: S$550.00 per participant, subject to GST.
Please get in touch with Joseph Loy by email atjoseph@pai.sg or tel:6363 0330 if you require further information.
