Future Minds
National Science Week Resources for Teachers
Bring AI literacy to your classroom with the resources produced for National Science Week 2026
About this program
These resources were developed by the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), a research team exploring how people and systems learn and adapt in an AI-driven world. During National Science Week 2026, the Future Minds team delivered talks and workshops across South Australia, travelling over 1,000 km to reach schools and community audiences of all ages.Â
This page collects the content, activities, and formats from that program so any teacher can replicate them in their own classroom or school event.
Public Lecture: Introduction to AI
A one-hour interactive talk designed for people of all ages and backgrounds, covering the key debates shaping how we think about AI and showcasing the latest interdisciplinary research on this topic produced by researchers in South Australia
FORMAT
60-minute interactive session, suitable for whole-school assemblies or community
evenings.
Core topics covered
To replicate this in your content
What's Next?
Extend this to a hands-on experience
A hands-on workshop where participants use creativity, critical thinking, and empathy to design a chatbot that addresses a real learning need of their own, using our in-house, safe, no-code platform, Chatmate. We integrate it into a Design Thinking framework, and it can be adapted into a 1.5–4 hour activity for either students or teachers looking to
improve their AI capabilities.
Join our community of practice
Want to build your leadership capabilities in AI? The AI in Education Impact Hub is an open, free of charge community that connects 13+ South Australian schools to share resources, practice, and outcomes.
Contribute to our research
We are a multidisciplinary
team of scholars researching learning sciences, educational
psychology, and human-AI interaction. If you’d like to
contribute by collecting data in your school, or to learn how our research can improve your teaching practice, get in touch with us.
The State of AI documentary
Recordings from these sessions and workshops will be collated into a longer documentary on AI research and innovation in
South Australia, premiering
in January 2027.
Contacts
Senior Lecturer, School of Education
Lecturer, School of Education
Be the first to know when the Impact Hub launches
Register Your Interest
This National Science Week project is supported by the Australian Government (NSWKIX000101)
This project was partially supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DP240100484).
Image credit: Leticia Birk
