Mastering Design Thinking with AI
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.
Thursday, November 12, 2026
9.00 am to 5.00 pm
Friday, November 13, 2026