Design Thinking and AI: Tools and Strategies to Amplify Learner Outcomes

How can AI elevate design thinking while keeping learning deeply human-centered? In this Mobile Mega Share, two educators from diverse cultural contexts show how AI can catalyze student agency and continuous reflection in middle and high school. See how to use AI as a supportive partner that gives students voice and choice to experiment, iterate and own their thinking. Explore strategies for every stage of design thinking: role-playing interviews to empathize, refining problem statements to define, challenging assumptions to ideate, co-creating rubrics to prototype and analyzing feedback patterns to test. Leave with phase-specific prompts and routines, agency-building lesson structures and AI-facilitated reflection checkpoints that help students analyze data, question their assumptions and iterate on real-world solutions. By blending AI with inclusive, multicultural perspectives, you will be ready to design lessons where AI amplifies, rather than replaces, student ownership and critical thinking.