AIQ
AIQ
Everything a teacher needs to deliver this lesson — pick your grade's script below once you've read the background.
"What's Next?" is the 36th and final lesson in AIQ — every student reaching it has already worked through five worlds on how AI learns, perceives, creates, and touches society, plus the first two lessons of World 6 on building and inventing responsibly with AI. This lesson does not introduce new technical content. It is a deliberately short, reflective closer: three "scenes" (what's coming next in AI, how to keep learning, and a personal mission statement) followed by a quiz that checks understanding of the ideas rather than facts. Treat it as a graduation moment, not a new topic to teach from scratch. By the end, a student should be able to:
You do not need any new technical background for this lesson — it deliberately introduces no new mechanism, algorithm, or concept. Its job is synthesis: pulling together everything the student has already learned across 35 prior lessons into a single, memorable takeaway, and pointing them toward what comes after AIQ. If you have taught any of the earlier World 6 lessons, you already have everything you need here.
The lesson's three scenes each do a specific job. "What's Coming" previews open questions in AI research in age-appropriate form — whether AI will ever "truly think" like a human (most researchers think not in any near term, but the question itself drives real research), AI's growing overlap with biology and medicine, and the idea that today's students might invent the next genuinely useful AI application themselves. "Keep Learning" is practical: it names specific, free, real resources (Code.org for coding fundamentals, Khan Academy for the math and science underneath AI, Google's Teachable Machine and Scratch for hands-on experimentation) so "keep learning about AI" isn't left as an empty platitude. "Your Mission" is the values scene — it reframes everything the course taught as a call to use AI to help people, protect privacy, resist bias, and share what they've learned with others.
One thing worth being explicit about, especially with older students: AIQ does not claim that finishing this course makes anyone an AI expert, and neither should you. What every student genuinely has earned is AI literacy — the ability to recognize where AI is and isn't at work, to ask sensible questions about how a system was trained and what it can and can't do, and to resist both techno-hype ("AI will solve everything") and techno-fear ("AI will replace everyone"). That is a real and valuable skill, and it is also the honest ceiling of what a free, self-paced app for ages 5–18 can teach. Genuine AI expertise — building models, understanding the underlying mathematics deeply, working in AI safety research — is a path this lesson can point toward but does not itself provide.
It's also worth being upfront that the specific named tools (Code.org, Khan Academy, Teachable Machine, Scratch) are all real, free, and appropriate for the ages that see them, but that a Philippine classroom's actual internet access and device availability will vary widely. If some of your students won't be able to access these tools from home, the "Keep Learning" scene still lands as encouragement and direction even if the specific links have to wait for a school computer lab or library session — frame it that way rather than assuming home access.
Nothing beyond AIQ's usual requirement: one device per student (or per small group) with a modern browser and an internet connection to open aiq.ph. No login is required. No printouts or special equipment for the in-app portion.
Because this is the final lesson of the whole curriculum, it is worth a small amount of extra prep that the app itself won't do for you: know in advance whether you plan to mark the occasion with anything beyond the lesson itself — a certificate, a class photo, a round of applause, a few minutes for students to share their favorite lesson from the course. None of this is required by the app, but classes that have worked through all 36 lessons together often benefit from the moment being treated as an actual milestone rather than "just another Tuesday lesson."
If you're running the Extension activity described in each age script (they vary by age band — see the individual pages), check what it needs ahead of time: the younger grades' extensions mostly need paper and drawing materials, while the older grades' extensions are discussion- or writing-based and need no materials beyond something to write with.
One piece of prep that's easy to overlook: if your students didn't all complete AIQ at the same pace, some may be reaching this lesson while classmates are still a lesson or two behind. Because "What's Next?" is written as a genuine send-off — "you finished ALL of AIQ" — it can feel deflating for a student who hasn't quite finished yet to sit through a celebration that isn't fully theirs. If your class is uneven, it's worth either holding the lesson until the slower finishers catch up, or simply reframing the celebratory language slightly for anyone mid-course ("you're almost there!") rather than letting the gap go unaddressed.