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AIQ and the Philippines' national AI literacy push
In January 2026, the Department of Education launched Project AGAP.AI, a national program treating AI literacy as a life skill for Filipino students, teachers, and parents. In February 2026, DepEd followed with Order No. 003, s. 2026, "Foundational Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence in Basic Education." AIQ is an independent, free curriculum that happens to teach exactly the skills these guidelines call for.
What this page is not: AIQ is not an official DepEd program, contractor, or partner, and this page is not a government publication. It explains, independently, how our free curriculum supports goals the Department of Education has already set publicly. Schools and teachers are free to use AIQ as a supplementary resource, the same way they would any other free educational tool.
What DepEd actually announced
- Project AGAP.AI ("Accelerating Governance and Adaptive Pedagogy through Artificial Intelligence") — launched January 2026 with the ASEAN Foundation and Google.org, aiming to reach over a million Filipino learners, teachers, and parents with AI-skills training.
- DepEd Order No. 003, s. 2026 — "Foundational Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Basic Education," dated February 20, 2026, signed by Education Secretary Sonny Angara. It sets rules for how AI may (and may not) be used in schools, requires a Privacy Impact Assessment and AI Registry entry before any school deploys an AI tool, and places extra safeguards — supervision and parental notification — around direct AI interaction for Kindergarten to Grade 3.
Sources: deped.gov.ph, Philippine Information Agency
Where AIQ already fits
- AIQ teaches about AI — it isn't an AI tool a child converses with. The safeguards in DO 003 target direct interaction with generative AI systems, particularly for K–3. AIQ's youngest tier, Explorer (ages 5–7), has no chat or generative AI feature at all — it teaches AI concepts through stories and games, the same way a media-literacy lesson teaches about advertising without running ads at the child.
- Free, with no procurement needed. DepEd's guidelines assume most schools are resource-constrained. AIQ requires no budget approval, no installation, and works on a shared Chromebook.
- Built around the same AI4K12 framework that underlies most credible K-12 AI curricula worldwide — see What Is AI Literacy?
- A teacher-controlled roster, not an open platform. A teacher creates a class and only ever sees their own students, echoing the "school official" oversight model these guidelines assume.
What a school should still do
Nothing here substitutes for a school's own compliance process. A school considering AIQ (or any AI-related tool) should still run its own Privacy Impact Assessment and registry check under DO 003, s. 2026, and should read AIQ's own privacy policy as part of that review.
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