Design Thinking Workshop for Schools

Think Better With AI

Not an AI prompting course. Students learn to ask better questions, challenge assumptions and make human-centred decisions while working with AI.

Think Better With AI combines Little Changemakers' proprietary human-centred design model, real community perspectives and AI-supported inquiry.

AI expands the possibilities. Our design model guides the thinking.
What Makes It Different

More Than Design Thinking + AI

Our Proprietary Design Model

Students use Little Changemakers' own human-centred framework to understand needs and evaluate ideas holistically.

Community-Grounded Perspectives

Selected AI personas are informed by anonymised insights from our real work with communities and social-sector partners.

AI as a Thinking Companion

Students question, probe, bounce ideas and challenge AI rather than simply asking it to generate solutions.

What Students Learn

Critical Thinking Skills for an AI-Enabled World

Question Ask deeper and more purposeful questions.
Discern Separate evidence from assumptions.
Challenge Identify gaps and missing perspectives.
Develop Bounce and strengthen ideas with AI.
Decide Make and justify their own judgement.
Design Thinking in Practice

Design a Meaningful VIA

Move students from “What activity should we do?” to “Who are we designing with or for?”

Students practise questioning community-grounded AI personas, explore different needs and perspectives, then develop their VIA ideas.

They use AI to test assumptions and challenge their thinking, while Little Changemakers' design model keeps the process grounded in people rather than technology.

The outcome is a thoughtful VIA proposal, together with an understanding of what must still be validated with the actual community before implementation.

Grounded in Practice

Real Community Experience Behind the Learning

Little Changemakers works directly with children, seniors, persons with disabilities and community partners.

Those experiences inform selected learning scenarios and Community-Grounded AI Personas used in our programmes.

Real experience grounds the learning.
Our model guides the thinking.
AI enables the practice.
Challenge Studio

Apply the Same Thinking to Other Challenges

Reimagine School Spaces

Explore how different users experience canteens, libraries, common spaces and other school environments.

Design for Inclusion

Examine participation and accessibility from different human perspectives.

Design for Sustainability

Develop ideas that consider both environmental and human behaviour.

Design for Wellbeing

Apply human-centred thinking to school and community wellbeing challenges.

For Schools

Upper Primary & Secondary

Primary 4–6

Curiosity, questioning, perspective-taking and thoughtful use of AI.

Secondary 1–4

Deeper evaluation of assumptions, evidence, perspectives and AI-generated recommendations.

For Educators

Facilitate Meaningful VIA With Design Thinking + AI

Train teachers to use the Little Changemakers approach to facilitate questioning, community perspectives and thoughtful VIA discussions with students.

Educators experience the methodology, practise facilitating the process and learn how AI can support classroom inquiry without replacing student thinking.

School licensing and continued use of the Little Changemakers methodology and tools are also available for discussion.

Think Better With AI

Because the More Powerful AI Becomes, the More Important Human Thinking Becomes.

Design Thinking workshops, VIA Challenge Studios and educator training are available for schools.