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Grade 12: units, topics and lessons
Every Grade 12 topic in the LittleAIMaster AI course, its lessons, and the requirements from 14 AI curricula it helps meet. Open a topic to see its lessons; lessons cited as evidence are in bold.
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Unit 1: Cutting Edge AI 12 topics
The Innovation Lab20 lessons· meets 1 requirement inSingapore
- The Innovation Lab
- Innovator Mindset
- Best Run or Average?
- AI Today
- Why Keep a Boring Baseline?
- Pick the Right Tool
- Where New AI Ideas Appear First
- Judge the Claim
- Research vs Production
- Building Blocks
- An Honest Experiment
- How Sure Is 94%?
- Margin by Hand
- Hugging Face: Shared Models, Checkable Claims
- Close the Gap
- Innovation Spotter
- Innovation Quiz
- Review Maya's Claim
- Innovator Vocabulary
- AI Innovator!
The AI Revolution20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inCSTA (US)Korea, Japan, HK
- The AI Revolution
- Four Shifts, 2022-2025
- Why Does 2025 Feel Different?
- Inside an Agent Loop
- The AI Industry Stack
- One AI, Many Modes
- Technology Families
- The Ecosystem Moves in Public
- Recent or Established?
- Unsolved Problems
- Tune a 2025 AI System
- Compounding by Hand
- Hugging Face Shows the Ecosystem
- Check the Headline
- Diagnose the Failure
- Trend or Overclaim?
- The AI Revolution Quiz
- Explain the 2025 Shift
- Revolution Vocabulary
- Revolution Mapped
- CSTA (US)Predict how computational innovations that have revolutionized aspects of our culture might evolve.
- Korea, Japan, HKDeepen understanding and skills for realising diverse communication and using information systems and diverse (including large-scale/multimedia) data, and understand the development of information technology and social change including its effect on intellectual activity.
AI That Sees & Hears20 lessons· meets 3 requirements inUNESCOSingapore
- AI That Sees & Hears
- The Modalities
- Why Do Multiple Senses Matter?
- Fusion Architecture
- Pick the Fusion
- One Idea, Many Forms
- Famous Models
- Memes Need Two Brains
- Applications Sort
- Cross-Modal Magic
- Zero-Shot by Hand
- Balance a Multimodal System
- Fuse by Hand
- Be My Eyes Connects Vision and Language
- Concept Match
- Multimodal Spotter
- Multimodal Quiz
- Explain Multimodal Fusion
- Multimodal Vocabulary
- Multimodal Foundations
- UNESCOCarry out responsible AI practices in compliance with ethical principles and locally applicable regulations, iteratively building and following a personal checklist of lawful and responsible practices (e.g. protecting privacy/copyright, marking AI-generated content, avoiding disinformation, hate speech, or sensitive content about identifiable individuals) (CG4.2.2.1).
- UNESCOGain an age-appropriate understanding of personal, legal and ethical responsibilities when using AI and reinforce self-disciplined behaviours around sensitive personal data, copyrighted materials, deepfake/identifiable-person imagery, and the spread of misinformation, disinformation or hate speech (CG4.2.2.2).
- SingaporeLearn to use AI: use AI tools safely and responsibly.
AI That Takes Action20 lessons· meets 3 requirements inAI4K12 (US)OECD–EC (Europe)UNESCO
- AI That Takes Action
- Agent Anatomy
- When Does Chat Become Action?
- The ReAct Pattern
- Trace the Loop
- Reasoning Can Leave the Chat Box
- Agent Types Match
- One Goal Can Require Many Roles
- Agent Complexity
- Agent Challenges
- Ask First or Go Ahead?
- Tune an Agent Workflow
- Compounding by Hand
- Claude Computer Use Acts on Interfaces
- Framework Match
- Agent Spotter
- Agent Quiz
- Explain the Agent Loop
- Agent Vocabulary
- Agent Expert!
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from illustrating a next possible board state in tic-tac-toe (K-2), to illustrating how a computer represents game play as a linear sequence of board positions connected by legal moves (3-5), to illustrating how a computer solves a maze, finds a map route, or reasons over a knowledge graph by drawing a search tree (6-8), to identifying real-world problems (task planning, scheduling, resource allocation) as search problems and describing their states and operators (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Establish checkpoints, monitor AI use against criteria, and adjust roles throughout a problem-solving process (Manage 4, advanced).
- UNESCOBuild technical and social-responsibility skills to make decisions on optimizing, reconfiguring, or shutting down an AI system based on test results and user feedback (three scenarios: optimize datasets/model/interface; reconfigure problem-scoping/architecture; or shut down and remediate where the system violates human rights or harms vulnerable groups) (CG4.3.4.2).
Can AI Really Think?23 lessons· meets 11 requirements inUAECISCE + statesIBCSTA (US)+4
- Can AI Really Think?
- Reasoning Types
- Why Do Steps Improve Answers?
- CoT In Action
- One Prompt Can Change the Thinking Style
- Method Match
- Voting Can Beat a Single Try
- Count the Votes
- Reasoning Needed?
- Reasoning Limits
- Tune a Reasoning Strategy
- Compounding by Hand
- ChatGPT Gets Better With Structured Reasoning
- Concept Match
- What Is Still Unsolved
- Narrow or General? A Working Test
- Narrow AI or AGI?
- Headline Check
- Reasoning Spotter
- Reasoning Quiz
- Explain Chain-of-Thought
- Reasoning Vocabulary
- Reasoning Master!
- UAEHow AI systems work; data and design choices
- CISCE + statesDifferentiate broad vs narrow AI and strong vs weak AI, and describe expert systems (e.g. Eliza), computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP) and neural networks (NN)
- IBApply computational thinking strategies (decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, algorithm design) to solve problems
- IBUnderstand the bias inherent in content produced by an AI tool and be able to critically review AI-generated output
- IBUse AI-generated content as an object of inquiry within Theory of Knowledge to examine how knowledge is produced and evaluated
- CSTA (US)Debate what differences do or should exist between human and artificial intelligence, sentience, consciousness, rights, and responsibilities.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from demonstrating ways intelligent agents don't understand things the way people do, e.g. no frustration at repeated questions (K-2), to demonstrating what a 'broad AI'/general-AI system could do that current narrow AI cannot (3-5), to defining criteria for consciousness (self-awareness, personal history) and evaluating AI systems or fictional AI characters against them (6-8), to debating alternative perspectives on human vs. artificial intelligence, including the Turing test and artificial superintelligence (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Evaluate whether an AI output should be accepted, revised, or rejected, and justify the decision (Engage 3, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Have a disposition to keep learning and stay informed about AI, including how algorithms can be biased and the difference between narrow AI and (hypothetical) general AI (AI example 72, competence 5.4).
- UNESCOGain interdisciplinary foundational knowledge for AI (e.g. artificial neural networks, strong vs weak AI, connections to STEM, languages and social studies) and reflect on AI's reciprocal impact on those subjects (CG4.1.3.3).
- ChinaStudents learn the basic process, implementation principles and core algorithms behind AI systems
AI That Writes Code20 lessons· meets 8 requirements inIBCSTA (US)OECD–EC (Europe)UNESCO+2
- AI That Writes Code
- Code Gen Methods
- How Can AI Write Working Code?
- AI Coding Tools
- Comments Can Become Code
- Capability Match
- Fast Tasks Are Not the Same as Hard Tasks
- Difficulty Sort
- Best Practices
- Review the Suggestion
- A Review Routine
- Tune an AI Coding Workflow
- Layers by Hand
- GitHub Copilot Speeds Repetitive Work
- Risk Match
- Code Gen Spotter
- Code Gen Quiz
- Explain Safe AI Coding
- Code Gen Vocabulary
- AI Coder Expert!
- IBDesign and query relational databases using SQL as core (mandatory) content for all students
- IB(HL only) Explain NoSQL database models and their use cases relative to relational databases
- IBUnderstand the bias inherent in content produced by an AI tool and be able to critically review AI-generated output
- CSTA (US)Students read, evaluate, and critique AI-generated code as part of the Programming strand.
- OECD–EC (Europe)Evaluate whether an AI output should be accepted, revised, or rejected, and justify the decision (Engage 3, advanced).
- UNESCOInterrogate how automation of literature reviews, writing and artistic creation by AI may undermine human thinking and intellectual development, and identify concrete actions to protect themselves and peers from over-reliance on AI outputs (CG4.2.1.3).
- SingaporeLearn with AI: apply AI to support and enhance one's own learning process.
- Australia + NZStudents and educators use generative AI tools in ways designed to enhance teaching and learning outcomes rather than replace core learning processes
AI in the Real World20 lessons· meets 13 requirements inADEKCISCE + statesEngland + CambridgeAI4K12 (US)
- AI in the Real World
- Embodied AI Types
- Why Is Physical AI So Hard?
- Sense-Think-Act
- Thinking Has To Become Motion
- Run the Loop
- Sensor Match
- The Hardest Objects Are Often Soft
- Challenge Sort
- Hard Problems
- Tune an Embodied AI System
- Latency by Hand
- Waymo Turns Perception Into Driving
- Which Loop Step?
- Application Match
- Embodied Spotter
- Embodied AI Quiz
- Explain the Perception-Action Loop
- Embodied Vocabulary
- Robotics Expert!
- ADEKRobotics / physical device
- CISCE + statesExplain what a robot is, its characteristics, and the benefits of robots over humans (quality, productivity, efficiency, working span, hazardous environments)
- CISCE + statesState a brief history of robotics evolution since 1900 and recite Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
- CISCE + statesClassify robots by terrain/field (aerial, ground, underwater), by control (manual, automatic), and identify bio-inspired robots (humanoid, bird, snake, insect)
- CISCE + statesDescribe the general block diagram and building blocks of a robot (mechanical, electronic, computational) and identify robots by demonstration/video (industrial arm, humanoid, mobile)
- CISCE + statesDifferentiate a machine from a robot, and a robot from a cobot (human-in-the-loop, multi-robot systems), tracing the progress from robots to cobots
- CISCE + statesExplain gears (role, principles, gear ratio) and classify sensors (internal: position/velocity/acceleration/force; external: contact/non-contact) and their functions in a robotic system
- CISCE + statesDescribe actuators (linear, rotary), control systems (manual vs automatic) and integrate sensors, actuators and controller in a robotic system using a block diagram (input-controller-robot-feedback)
- England + CambridgeDescribe how sensors, microprocessors and actuators combine to create automated systems, and describe advantages/disadvantages for given scenarios (industry, transport, agriculture, weather, gaming, lighting, science)
- England + CambridgeUnderstand what is meant by robotics, describe the characteristics of a robot (mechanical structure, electrical components/sensors/actuators/microprocessors, programmability), and the roles robots perform (industry, transport, agriculture, medicine, domestic, entertainment) with advantages/disadvantages
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from locating and identifying computer sensors such as cameras and microphones on everyday devices (K-2), to illustrating how computer sensing differs from human sensing (3-5), to giving examples of intelligent agents (e.g. self-driving cars) combining data from multiple sensors (6-8), to describing the limitations and advantages of specific sensor types such as cameras, microphones, radar, lidar, GPS, and accelerometers (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from giving examples of intelligent vs. non-intelligent machines and discussing what makes a machine 'intelligent' (K-2), to demonstrating a machine perception tool (e.g. speech transcription, object recognition) and explaining why it is perception rather than mere sensing (3-5), to giving examples of specialized perception algorithms (face detection, obstacle detection, speech recognition, etc.) (6-8), to explaining how perception algorithms power real-world applications like license plate readers and Google Lens (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from describing and giving examples of how people vs. computers learn (K-2), to differentiating human flexible learning from computer pattern-finding/trial-and-error learning (3-5), to contrasting human learning characteristics with narrowly-defined machine learning problems (6-8), to defining supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning and giving human-learning analogues for each (9-12).
AI on Tiny Devices20 lessons· meets 5 requirements inADEKIBEngland + CambridgeAI4K12 (US)
- AI on Tiny Devices
- Cloud vs Edge
- Why Keep AI on the Device?
- Model Compression
- Read the Quantizer
- Huge Models Can Shrink Dramatically
- Device Match
- TinyML Fits in Kilobytes
- Trade-off Sort
- AI Accelerators
- Balance an Edge AI Design
- Size by Hand
- Face ID Works in Real Time
- Concept Match
- Edge AI Spotter
- Edge AI Quiz
- Plan an Edge Project
- Explain Edge AI Trade-offs
- Edge Vocabulary
- Edge AI Expert!
- ADEKRobotics / physical device
- IBExplain how core computer hardware, operating systems, and cloud computing concepts underpin computing systems
- England + CambridgeShow understanding of encryption (symmetric/asymmetric cryptography, public/private key), SSL/TLS, digital certification and quantum cryptography purpose/benefits/drawbacks
- England + CambridgeShow understanding of operating system process management (multi-tasking, process states, scheduling algorithms) and virtual memory/paging/segmentation
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from demonstrating how training data are labeled by class in a tool like Teachable Machine (3-5), to explaining the difference between training a reasoning model and using it on new data (6-8), to illustrating all steps of building a classifier/predictor with machine learning, including choosing features, labeling, cross-validation, and test-set evaluation (9-12). K-2 is marked N/A.
The Quantum Frontier20 lessons
- The Quantum Frontier
- Quantum Basics for AI
- Myth or Mechanism?
- Why Mix Quantum With AI?
- What is Quantum Machine Learning?
- Some Problems May Need a New Kind of Computer
- The Hybrid Loop
- Match Quantum Concepts
- Data Loading Can Cancel the Advantage
- Sort: Current vs Future QML
- QML Challenges Today
- How Fast Noise Adds Up
- Noise by Hand
- IBM Quantum Supports Hybrid Research
- Match QML Applications
- Spot the Real QML
- Quantum ML Quiz
- Explain Quantum ML's Promise
- Quantum ML Vocabulary
- Quantum Pioneer!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Safety Lab20 lessons· meets 7 requirements inADEKIBCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)+2
- The Safety Lab
- Core AI Safety Areas
- Why Doing the Wrong Thing Can Still Look Correct
- Why AI Safety Matters Now
- Safety Is About Better AI, Not Slower AI
- Match Safety Concepts
- A Helpful Model Can Still Hide Risks
- Sort: Safety vs Capability Research
- Safety Research Techniques
- When the Reward Model Is the Proxy
- How Much Testing Catches a Rare Failure?
- Rare Failures by Hand
- Claude Uses Constitutional AI
- Match Safety Solutions
- A Release Plan
- Spot the Safety Issue
- AI Safety Quiz
- Explain AI Alignment
- AI Safety Vocabulary
- Safety Researcher!
- ADEKAI governance/civic participation
- IBEvaluate ethical implications of AI/ML systems, including bias, fairness, and transparency, as part of the machine learning content
- CSTA (US)Explain security issues that might lead to compromised computer programs.
- CSTA (US)Compare ways software developers protect devices and information from unauthorized access.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from discussing what makes a system fair vs. unfair through a fair-distribution exercise (K-2), to evaluating whether an AI system meets the design criteria of transparency and explainability (3-5), to evaluating whether an AI system meets the design criteria of accountability and respect for privacy (6-8), to analyzing whether an AI system satisfies the full set of ethical design criteria: fairness, transparency, explainability, accountability, respect for privacy, and adherence to societal values (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Establish checkpoints, monitor AI use against criteria, and adjust roles throughout a problem-solving process (Manage 4, advanced).
- UNESCOBuild technical and social-responsibility skills to make decisions on optimizing, reconfiguring, or shutting down an AI system based on test results and user feedback (three scenarios: optimize datasets/model/interface; reconfigure problem-scoping/architecture; or shut down and remediate where the system violates human rights or harms vulnerable groups) (CG4.3.4.2).
The Unsolved Mysteries20 lessons· meets 15 requirements inADEKIBCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)+2
- The Unsolved Mysteries
- Major Open Problems
- Why Are Easy Human Skills Still Hard?
- Why These Problems Are Hard
- Which Problem Is This?
- The Frontier Starts Where Benchmarks Stop
- Match the Open Problem
- Knowing When Not to Answer Is Still Hard
- Scope a Project
- Sort: Solved vs Open
- More Open Frontiers
- Tune a Research Breakthrough
- Compounding by Hand
- Wolfram Alpha Shows Narrow Strength
- Match Research Approaches
- Spot the Open Problem
- Open Problems Quiz
- Explain an Open Problem
- Open Problems Vocabulary
- Future Researcher!
- ADEKFootprint / resource cost of AI
- IBUse AI-generated content as an object of inquiry within Theory of Knowledge to examine how knowledge is produced and evaluated
- CSTA (US)Debate what differences do or should exist between human and artificial intelligence, sentience, consciousness, rights, and responsibilities.
- CSTA (US)Design ways to minimize negative environmental impacts of AI and communicate those ways to others.
- CSTA (US)Students examine security implications and environmental impacts of AI systems within Systems & Security.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from describing what an intelligent agent must 'know' to make sense of a spoken question (K-2), to demonstrating how a text-to-speech/speech-recognition system resolves ambiguity using statistical context (3-5), to classifying an image scene type and describing the domain knowledge needed to understand it (6-8), to analyzing an online image dataset (e.g. ImageNet, Coco) to describe how statistical domain knowledge is derived for a computer vision system (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from describing and giving examples of how people vs. computers learn (K-2), to differentiating human flexible learning from computer pattern-finding/trial-and-error learning (3-5), to contrasting human learning characteristics with narrowly-defined machine learning problems (6-8), to defining supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning and giving human-learning analogues for each (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from giving commonsense explanations of human behavior useful for a robot to know, e.g. choosing a plausible story ending (K-2), to explaining what everyday cultural and naive-physics knowledge a computer needs to understand a story (3-5), to explaining the naive-physics inference rules (mass, volume, conservation, forces) needed to solve a physics reasoning problem (6-8), to explaining the cultural, naive-physics, and folk-psychology knowledge needed to interpret a fable, fairytale, or Winograd-schema sentence (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from demonstrating ways intelligent agents don't understand things the way people do, e.g. no frustration at repeated questions (K-2), to demonstrating what a 'broad AI'/general-AI system could do that current narrow AI cannot (3-5), to defining criteria for consciousness (self-awareness, personal history) and evaluating AI systems or fictional AI characters against them (6-8), to debating alternative perspectives on human vs. artificial intelligence, including the Turing test and artificial superintelligence (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Explain how AI systems perform tasks without attributing human traits to them (Engage 2, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Analyse how design and deployment decisions affect an AI system's resource consumption (Engage 5, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Assess an AI system's strengths and limitations considering its purpose and potential impacts (Shape 1, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Consider the ethical consequences of AI systems throughout their life-cycle, including environmental impact and societal impact such as platformisation of work and low-cost labelling labour (AI example 57, competence 4.4).
- OECD–EC (Europe)States that a foundational understanding of AI's technical functioning and the ability to recognise chances, limits and risks are indispensable for students to use AI responsibly and reflectively ('digital mündig'); calls on the Länder to integrate AI-related informatics competences and 'Bildung in der digitalen Welt' competences into curricula for all subjects and school types, without itself specifying discrete grade-level student outcomes.
- ChinaStudents learn the basic process, implementation principles and core algorithms behind AI systems
The AI Journey So Far20 lessons
- The AI Journey So Far
- Unit 1 Key Concepts
- What Ties the Whole Unit Together?
- Connecting the Dots
- Trace One Request
- Modern AI Is a Stack, Not a Single Trick
- Match Unit Concepts
- Safety Connects to Every Capability
- Sort: Now vs Future
- More Key Concepts
- Tune the Modern AI Stack
- Weak Links by Hand
- Perplexity Shows the Stack in Practice
- Design Review
- Match Problems & Solutions
- Spot the Cutting Edge
- Unit 1 Final Quiz
- Explain the Cutting-Edge Picture
- Unit 1 Key Terms
- Unit 1 Complete!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Unit 2: AI Research Methods 24 topics
The Paper Trail20 lessons
- The Paper Trail
- Where to Find Papers
- Why Do Experts Skim Before Reading Deeply?
- Anatomy of a Research Paper
- A Paper Has a Shape You Can Learn
- Match Paper Sections
- Figures Often Tell the Whole Story
- Sort: First Pass vs Deep Read
- Reading Strategies
- Score a Paper for Deep Reading
- Score by Hand
- Papers With Code Helps You Triage Faster
- Deep Read or Skim?
- Match Reading Tips
- Spot Good Paper Habits
- Which Section Answers It?
- Paper Reading Quiz
- Explain Smart Paper Triage
- Paper Reading Vocabulary
- Research Reader!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Decoding the Blueprint20 lessons
- Decoding the Blueprint
- The Paper Sections
- Why Does Standard Structure Matter So Much?
- Deep Dive: Key Sections
- Structure Turns Complexity Into Navigation
- Match Sections to Content
- The Contributions List Is a Shortcut
- Sort: Early vs Late Sections
- More Paper Components
- Trace a Claim
- Design a Reader-Friendly Paper
- Scan Budget by Hand
- arXiv Works Because Structure Is Familiar
- Match Paper Elements
- Reading the Transformer Paper
- Spot the Section Purpose
- Paper Structure Quiz
- Explain Paper Structure
- Structure Vocabulary
- Structure Expert!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Research Hunt20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inOECD–EC (Europe)
- The Research Hunt
- Paper Discovery Tools
- How Do Researchers Find What Matters?
- Finding Strategies
- Order the Search
- Research Is a Network, Not a Pile
- Match Discovery Methods
- Survey Papers Save Huge Amounts of Time
- Sort: Search vs Subscribe
- More Discovery Resources
- Build a Paper Discovery System
- Precision by Hand
- Semantic Scholar Surfaces Research Paths
- Judge What You Found
- Match Conferences to Fields
- Spot Good Search Habits
- Finding Papers Quiz
- Explain Efficient Paper Discovery
- Discovery Vocabulary
- Paper Hunter!
- OECD–EC (Europe)Weigh the benefits and disadvantages of using AI-driven search engines, including privacy and commercial-interest trade-offs (AI example 31, competence 1.1).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Be aware that AI algorithms may embody a commercial or political message rather than only serving the user's information need, with possible negative consequences such as reproducing stereotypes or spreading misinformation (AI example 48, competence 1.2).
Question Everything20 lessons
- Question Everything
- Critical Questions to Ask
- Why Can Strong Claims Still Be Weak Science?
- Common Problems in Papers
- Skepticism Makes Research Stronger
- Match the Problem
- A Tiny Gain Might Mean Nothing
- Sort: Good vs Concerning
- Evaluating Evidence
- Test the Strength of a Paper's Evidence
- Trace the Noise
- Papers With Code Makes Comparisons Harder to Fake
- Leak or Fair Split?
- Match Analysis Tools
- Spot the Red Flags
- Critical Analysis Quiz
- What Evidence Would Settle It?
- Explain Strong Evidence
- Critical Analysis Vocabulary
- Critical Thinker!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Replication Challenge20 lessons
- The Replication Challenge
- Why Reproduction Fails
- Why Doesn't the Same Paper Give the Same Result?
- Reproduction Best Practices
- Reproduction Reveals the Invisible Parts
- Is the Gap Real?
- Match Reproduction Tools
- One Data Step Can Change Everything
- Sort: First Steps vs Later Steps
- Debugging Reproduction
- How Many Seeds Is Enough?
- Seeds by Hand
- Docker Preserves the Environment
- When You Can't Re-run It
- Match Problem to Solution
- Spot Good Reproduction Practices
- Reproduction Quiz
- Explain Reproducibility Challenges
- Reproduction Vocabulary
- Reproducibility Expert!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Scientific Method20 lessons· meets 1 requirement inCSTA (US)
- The Scientific Method
- Key Experiment Components
- Why Can a Good Idea Still Produce Bad Evidence?
- Designing Fair Experiments
- One Run or Five?
- A Great Experiment Can Clarify Reality
- Match Experiment Terms
- One Seed Can Mislead You
- Sort: Training vs Test Time
- Common Experiment Mistakes
- Balance a Fair Experiment
- Seeds by Hand
- Weights & Biases Helps Teams Track Fair Tests
- Match Data Splits
- Spot the Experiment Flaw
- Run the Method
- Experiment Design Quiz
- Explain Fair Experiment Design
- Experiment Vocabulary
- Experiment Designer!
The Standard Measures20 lessons· meets 1 requirement inAI4K12 (US)
- The Standard Measures
- Famous AI Benchmarks
- Same Benchmark, Different Rules
- Understanding Datasets
- Check the Data
- A Target Everyone Aims At
- Match Benchmarks to Tasks
- When a Benchmark Gets Used Up
- Sort: Images, Text or Both
- Benchmark Limitations
- Diagnose the Weakness
- How Much Could Luck Move a Score?
- Margin on HumanEval
- Where Benchmarks and Datasets Live
- Match Dataset Sources
- Spot the Benchmark Issue
- Benchmarks Quiz
- Choose Between Two Models
- Benchmark Vocabulary
- Benchmark Reader
From Results to Paper20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inOECD–EC (Europe)UNESCO
- From Results to Paper
- Writing Section by Section
- Why Can Great Research Be Ignored?
- Writing Clearly
- Writing Is Part of the Research
- Match Writing Tips
- Many Researchers Write the Abstract Last
- Order Maya's Abstract
- Sort: Write First vs Last
- Common Writing Mistakes
- Claim Only What You Showed
- Measure a Draft's Reading Grade
- Reading Grade by Hand
- Overleaf Supports Collaborative Drafting
- Match Writing Tools
- Spot Good Writing
- Writing Research Quiz
- Explain Clear Research Writing
- Writing Vocabulary
- Paper Plan Complete
- OECD–EC (Europe)Critically evaluate how AI feedback shapes one's ideas and reflect on the creative process (Create 3, advanced).
- UNESCOInterrogate how automation of literature reviews, writing and artistic creation by AI may undermine human thinking and intellectual development, and identify concrete actions to protect themselves and peers from over-reliance on AI outputs (CG4.2.1.3).
The Ethics Question24 lessons· meets 10 requirements inUAECBSECISCE + statesCSTA (US)+3
- The Ethics Question
- Core Ethical Principles
- Why Can Impressive Results Still Be Wrong to Use?
- Ethics in AI Research
- Apply the Principles
- Responsible Research Protects the Future of the Field
- Match Ethical Issues
- Public Data Is Not Always Fair Game
- Sort: Ethical vs Concerning
- Ethical Safeguards
- Balance an Ethical Research Plan
- Trace the Re-identification Maths
- Model Cards Add Transparency
- Plan Your Own Project Ethically
- Match Ethics Terms
- Spot the Ethical Issue
- Research Ethics Quiz
- Explain Ethical AI Research
- Ethics Vocabulary
- India's Welfare AI: Apply the Principles
- Write the Rule!
- Same Case, Other Codes
- Compare the Codes
- Ethical Researcher!
- UAEImprove AI systems to match societal expectations
- UAEJudge responsible AI use against governance frameworks
- CBSEDemonstrate understanding of the fundamental principles of ethics in AI and the five pillars of AI Ethics; understand AI bias, its sources, real-world implications, and mitigation strategies; identify and apply strategies to promote fairness and transparency; recognise the significance of AI policies in promoting responsible, safe, ethical AI use (Unit 8: AI Ethics and Values).
- CISCE + statesApply an AI code of ethics — avoiding bias, ensuring privacy of users and their data, mitigating environmental impact, and evaluating the effects of designing technology that replicates human life
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the design, motivation, outcomes, and potential impacts of AI systems using ethical design criteria and/or ethical frameworks.
- OECD–EC (Europe)Evaluate how well an AI use aligns with ethical principles and human values across trade-offs (Engage 7, advanced).
- UNESCOCarry out responsible AI practices in compliance with ethical principles and locally applicable regulations, iteratively building and following a personal checklist of lawful and responsible practices (e.g. protecting privacy/copyright, marking AI-generated content, avoiding disinformation, hate speech, or sensitive content about identifiable individuals) (CG4.2.2.1).
- UNESCOGain an age-appropriate understanding of personal, legal and ethical responsibilities when using AI and reinforce self-disciplined behaviours around sensitive personal data, copyrighted materials, deepfake/identifiable-person imagery, and the spread of misinformation, disinformation or hate speech (CG4.2.2.2).
- UNESCOCategorise general safety risks of AI and typical AI incidents, deepen knowledge of human rights to data protection and privacy and creators' legal responsibility to collect data only with informed consent, and practise strategies to ensure personal data is collected, used, shared, archived and deleted only with consent (CG4.2.2.3).
- SingaporeLearn to use AI: use AI tools safely and responsibly.
Research as a Team20 lessons· meets 5 requirements inIBCSTA (US)Australia + NZ
- Research as a Team
- Essential Collaboration Tools
- Why Do Big Research Teams Need So Much Structure?
- Version Control with Git
- Read the Trace
- Tools Let Ideas Move Faster Than Distance
- Match Tools to Uses
- A Good Commit Message Saves Future Time
- Sort: Code vs Writing Tools
- More Collaboration Tools
- Build a Strong Research Workflow
- Trace Thursday's Drop
- GitHub Coordinates Shared Code
- Match Git Commands
- The Pull-Request Cycle
- Spot Good Collaboration
- Collaboration Tools Quiz
- Explain Research Collaboration
- Collaboration Vocabulary
- Team Player!
- IBCollaborate with students from other Group 4 (sciences) subjects on shared scientific investigation and collaborative-sciences project skills
- CSTA (US)Design and develop computational artifacts working in team roles using collaborative tools.
- CSTA (US)Use version control systems, integrated development environments (IDEs), and collaborative tools and practices (code documentation) in a group software project.
- CSTA (US)Use tools and methods for collaboration on a project to increase connectivity of people in different cultures and career fields.
- Australia + NZPlan and manage projects individually and collaboratively, including using project management tools/strategies to sequence production activities
A World of AI Research20 lessons
- A World of AI Research
- Global Research Hubs
- Why Is AI Research No Longer Concentrated In Just A Few Places?
- Joining the Global Community
- Open Research Connects Distant Labs
- Choose a First Step
- Match Research Institutions
- Regional Communities Create Real Momentum
- Sort: Academic vs Industry
- Global Research Initiatives
- Balance a Global Research Ecosystem
- Overlap by Hand
- arXiv Helps Research Spread Worldwide
- Read the Preprint Honestly
- Match Initiatives
- Spot Global Opportunities
- Global AI Research Quiz
- Explain Global AI Research
- Global Research Vocabulary
- Global Researcher!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Research Journey20 lessons
- The Research Journey
- Unit 2 Key Topics
- Why Does Research Move In A Cycle Instead Of A Straight Line?
- The Research Cycle
- Research Skills Reinforce One Another
- Match Research Skills
- One Loop, In Order
- One Good Project Can Launch Several More
- Sort: Research Stages
- Key Takeaways
- How Many Runs Do You Need?
- Spread by Hand
- GitHub Connects Reading, Building, and Review
- Match Tools to Tasks
- Spot the Good Research
- Review a Draft
- Unit 2 Final Quiz
- Explain the Research Cycle
- Unit 2 Key Terms
- Unit 2 Review Complete
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Paper Challenge20 lessons
- The Paper Challenge
- The Three-Pass Method
- Why Do Multiple Quick Passes Beat One Slow First Read?
- Why Read Papers at the Source
- Pass 1 on the Transformer Paper
- A Paper Reveals More Each Time You Revisit It
- Match Reading Depths
- Appendices Often Hide Critical Details
- Sort: Pass 1 vs Pass 2
- Overcoming Common Struggles
- Budget Your Reading Time
- Budget by Hand
- arXiv Supports Source-First Reading
- Plan Your Project's Reading
- Match Problem to Solution
- Spot Effective Reading Habits
- Advanced Reading Quiz
- Explain the Three-Pass Method
- Advanced Reading Terms
- Paper Reading Pro!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Paper Blueprint20 lessons
- The Paper Blueprint
- The IMRAD Structure
- Why Can Experts Navigate A Long Paper So Quickly?
- Complete Paper Structure
- Put the Sections in Order
- A Shared Structure Makes Research Searchable
- Match Sections to Content
- Figure 1 Often Tells the Whole Story
- Sort: Reading Priority
- What Each Section Reveals
- Build a Readable Paper
- Hunt the Answer
- Overleaf Encourages Standard Paper Structure
- Match Paper Types
- Name the Paper Type
- Spot Well-Structured Papers
- Paper Structure Quiz
- Explain Paper Structure
- Paper Structure Terms
- Paper Navigator!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Research Goldmine20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inOECD–EC (Europe)
- The Research Goldmine
- Research Discovery Tools
- Why Do Researchers Need More Than A Search Box?
- ArXiv: Day 1 Access
- Read an arXiv Record
- Discovery Tools Turn the Firehose Into a Map
- Match Tools to Uses
- Citation Trails Work in Two Directions
- Sort: Preprint vs Published
- Google Scholar Power Tips
- Build the Query
- Adjust a Citation Count for Age
- Citations per Year by Hand
- Google Scholar Extends Search Into a Research Network
- Match Citation Levels
- Spot Good Research Practices
- Finding Papers Quiz
- Explain Paper Discovery Tools
- Research Discovery Terms
- Research Explorer!
- OECD–EC (Europe)Weigh the benefits and disadvantages of using AI-driven search engines, including privacy and commercial-interest trade-offs (AI example 31, competence 1.1).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Be aware that AI algorithms may embody a commercial or political message rather than only serving the user's information need, with possible negative consequences such as reproducing stereotypes or spreading misinformation (AI example 48, competence 1.2).
Question Everything20 lessons
- Question Everything
- Critical Reading Levels
- Why Can A Published Result Still Be Misleading?
- Evaluating Claims
- Skepticism Can Make Research Stronger
- Match Claim Types
- Limitations Sections Often Matter Most
- Read the Ablation Table
- Sort: Good vs Bad Practice
- Statistical Rigor
- Tune a Strong Critical Review
- Trace the Error Cut
- Papers with Code Helps Inspect Claims
- Match Quality Indicators
- Spot Quality Research
- Critical Analysis Quiz
- Which Question Catches It?
- Explain Critical Reading
- Critical Analysis Terms
- Critical Thinker!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Reproduction Challenge20 lessons
- The Reproduction Challenge
- Why ML Reproduction is Hard
- Why Can The Same Paper Produce Different Numbers?
- Reproducibility Levels
- Near Matches Can Still Be Scientific Wins
- Which Level Was It?
- Match Reproduction Steps
- One Missing Hyperparameter Can Change Everything
- Sort: Normal vs Concerning
- Solving Common Problems
- Tune a Reproduction Workflow
- Accumulation by Hand
- Weights & Biases Keeps Runs Comparable
- Maya's Reproduction Report
- Match Best Practices
- Spot Good Reproduction Practices
- Reproduction Quiz
- Explain Reproducibility
- Reproduction Terms
- Reproduction Challenge Complete
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Designing Great Experiments20 lessons· meets 6 requirements inCBSECISCE + statesCSTA (US)
- Designing Great Experiments
- The Scientific Method in ML
- Why Can A Great Idea Still Produce Weak Evidence?
- Formulating Research Questions
- Sharpen the Question
- A Clean Experiment Can Turn Doubt Into Evidence
- Match Experiment Components
- Ablations Often Reveal Surprising Simplicity
- Read the Ablation
- Sort: Fair vs Unfair Comparisons
- Choosing Baselines & Metrics
- Build a Fair Experiment
- p by Hand
- MLflow Organizes Experiment Evidence
- Match Ablation Benefits
- Spot Good Experiment Design
- Experiment Design Quiz
- Explain Experiment Design
- Experiment Design Terms
- Experiment Designer!
- CBSEExplain the importance of data literacy in AI; identify data collection methods and applications; comprehend matrices and their operations; apply basic data analysis techniques (mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance); visualise data using line/bar/histogram/scatter/pie charts with matplotlib (Unit 5: Data Literacy - Data Collection to Data Analysis).
- CISCE + statesPerform matrix operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, transpose) and vector arithmetic/applications relevant to AI
- CISCE + statesApply Set Theory to data-table joins and relational algebra, and calculate simple statistical measures (mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation)
- CISCE + statesAnalyse data trends using mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation; apply probability basics including uniform, normal and binomial distributions
- CISCE + statesFormulate null and alternative hypotheses, identify Type I and Type II errors, and apply simple linear regression and correlation coefficient for prediction and relationship measurement
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the ability of models and simulations to test and support the refinement of hypotheses.
Data is Everything20 lessons· meets 7 requirements inADEKCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)OECD–EC (Europe)
- Data is Everything
- Key Vision Benchmarks
- Why Can A Model Look Great On A Benchmark But Fail In Reality?
- NLP Benchmarks
- Shared Benchmarks Let Whole Fields Coordinate
- Match Benchmarks to Tasks
- Leaderboards Can Encourage Narrow Optimization
- Sort: Good vs Bad Practices
- An Honest Evaluation
- Dataset Biases to Watch
- Tune a Strong Dataset
- Real-World Accuracy by Hand
- Hugging Face Helps Researchers Inspect Datasets
- Audit a Dataset Card
- Match Data Quality Signs
- Spot Good Dataset Practices
- Benchmarks Quiz
- Explain Benchmark Limits
- Dataset Terms
- Data Expert!
- ADEKExamine dataset bias, propose fixes
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the data used to solve a problem, including its source(s) and whether privacy is protected, if/how the data has been processed, data quality (e.g., accuracy, reliability, validity), what the data represents, and biases.
- CSTA (US)Students build data fluency and examine the societal impacts of large-scale data collection used to train AI systems.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from describing what an intelligent agent must 'know' to make sense of a spoken question (K-2), to demonstrating how a text-to-speech/speech-recognition system resolves ambiguity using statistical context (3-5), to classifying an image scene type and describing the domain knowledge needed to understand it (6-8), to analyzing an online image dataset (e.g. ImageNet, Coco) to describe how statistical domain knowledge is derived for a computer vision system (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from illustrating why training a classifier for a broad concept like 'dog' requires large, diverse image data by browsing datasets such as ImageNet or Coco (3-5), to illustrating how objects in images are segmented and labeled with bounding boxes to build an object-recognition training set (6-8), to evaluating a real AI training dataset's size, acquisition/labeling method, storage cost, and time-to-produce, including where bias can enter (9-12). K-2 is marked N/A.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from examining a labeled dataset to identify problems that could cause incorrect predictions, e.g. an all-green 'healthy foods' set (K-2), to examining training-data features/labels for potential sources of bias such as Amazon's biased resume sorter (3-5), to explaining how unbalanced training data biases a classifier, e.g. faces or loan applications (6-8), to investigating demographic imbalances in training data using data-visualization tools such as histograms or Pandas (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Evaluate how dataset properties affect an AI system's performance and impact, factoring in data source and selection (Shape 3, advanced).
Sharing Your Discovery20 lessons
- Sharing Your Discovery
- Paper Structure Overview
- Why Can Strong Results Still Fail To Persuade Reviewers?
- Writing Each Section
- Clear Writing Lets Ideas Travel Further
- Match Sections to Purpose
- Many Readers Decide Fast
- Sort: Good vs Bad Writing
- Which Section Is This?
- LaTeX Essentials
- Tune a Clear Research Paper
- Points, Percent or Errors?
- Overleaf Supports Clear Collaborative Writing
- Draft to Camera-Ready
- Match LaTeX vs Word
- Spot Good Writing Practices
- Research Writing Quiz
- Explain Research Writing
- Research Writing Terms
- Research Writer!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Foundation of Trust20 lessons· meets 9 requirements inIBOECD–EC (Europe)UNESCOKorea, Japan, HK+2
- The Foundation of Trust
- Core Research Principles
- Why Can One Ethical Mistake Damage So Much Trust?
- Understanding Plagiarism
- Paraphrase or Patchwrite?
- Integrity Lets Knowledge Compound
- Match Citation Situations
- Good Citation Habits Start During Reading
- Sort: Authorship Credits
- Data Ethics and Privacy
- Before You Collect Photos
- How Likely Is a Lucky Win?
- Luck by Hand
- Turnitin Checks Writing Similarity
- Match Ethics Principles
- Spot Ethical Research Practices
- Research Ethics Quiz
- Explain Research Integrity
- Research Ethics Terms
- Ethics Champion!
- IBCredit and reference any AI-generated content used in coursework in the body of the text and in the bibliography, per IB academic integrity requirements
- IBUnderstand that any AI-generated work included, even in part, in a piece of assessment is not considered the student's own unless it is clearly credited in the text and referenced in the bibliography
- IBFollow the IB Academic Integrity policy's guidance on the ethical use of AI tools (per its dedicated appendix) when producing assessed work
- OECD–EC (Europe)Assess the ethical implications and justify how an AI-assisted work maintains authenticity (Create 4, advanced).
- UNESCOCategorise general safety risks of AI and typical AI incidents, deepen knowledge of human rights to data protection and privacy and creators' legal responsibility to collect data only with informed consent, and practise strategies to ensure personal data is collected, used, shared, archived and deleted only with consent (CG4.2.2.3).
- UNESCOArticulate personal and social responsibilities of citizens in an AI society — from both user and designer perspectives — including ensuring human control and accountability over every step of the AI life cycle (CG4.3.1.2).
- Korea, Japan, HKCultivate an attitude of participating proactively in, and contributing to the development of, the information society while creating new value through appropriate use of information and information technology and adherence to information morals (law, security).
- ChinaStudents understand the ethics and challenges of a smart/AI-driven society, strengthening information-security awareness, responsibility, and dialectical (balanced) views of AI
- Australia + NZStudents learn that use of generative AI outputs (e.g. in assessable work) must remain open to challenge, retain human agency, and that the student/user remains accountable for decisions made with AI assistance (e.g. academic integrity implications)
Research is a Team Sport24 lessons· meets 2 requirements inIBCSTA (US)
- Research is a Team Sport
- Essential Collaboration Tools
- Why Doesn't Modern Research Collapse Into Chaos?
- Git Basics for Research
- Tools Let Teams Think Together
- Match Tools to Purpose
- A Good README Saves More Than Time
- Sort: Good vs Bad Practices
- From Branch to Main
- Merge Conflicts, Calmly
- Read the Markers
- Team Sprint in Repo Lab
- Your Team Log
- Research Workflow
- Build a Smooth Team Workflow
- Overlap by Hand
- GitHub Keeps Shared Research Organized
- Diagnose the Team
- Match README Components
- Spot Good Collaboration Practices
- Collaboration Tools Quiz
- Explain Research Collaboration
- Collaboration Terms
- Collaboration Pro!
- IBCollaborate with students from other Group 4 (sciences) subjects on shared scientific investigation and collaborative-sciences project skills
- CSTA (US)Use version control systems, integrated development environments (IDEs), and collaborative tools and practices (code documentation) in a group software project.
Your Place in AI Research20 lessons
- Your Place in AI Research
- Types of Research Organizations
- Why Do Some Important Research Opportunities Stay Hidden?
- Finding Research in Your Region
- Your Local Context Can Be a Research Advantage
- Match Organization Types
- Open Source Can Be a Real Entry Point
- Sort: Good vs Bad Strategies
- Research Opportunities for Students
- Read Before You Write
- Design Your Research Path
- Odds by Hand
- LinkedIn Surfaces Research Communities
- Match Research Problems
- Your First Project Route
- Spot Good Research Strategies
- Research Ecosystem Quiz
- Explain the Research Ecosystem
- Research Ecosystem Terms
- Ecosystem Explorer!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Research Journey Complete20 lessons· meets 6 requirements inCBSECISCE + statesCSTA (US)
- Research Journey Complete
- Skills You've Mastered
- Why Do These Different Research Skills Fit Together?
- One Claim, Checked End to End
- Twelve Tries, One Winner
- Read the p-value
- Match Tools to Questions
- The Best Researchers Keep Switching Modes
- Sort: Research Best Practices
- Quick Reference Guide
- How Many Tries Until a False Alarm?
- False Alarms by Hand
- A Lab Log Keeps Every Try
- Match Problems to Solutions
- Spot Research Best Practices
- Referee the Abstract
- Unit 2 Final Quiz
- Explain the Unit 2 Toolkit
- Unit 2 Key Terms
- Unit 2 Complete
- CBSEExplain the importance of data literacy in AI; identify data collection methods and applications; comprehend matrices and their operations; apply basic data analysis techniques (mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance); visualise data using line/bar/histogram/scatter/pie charts with matplotlib (Unit 5: Data Literacy - Data Collection to Data Analysis).
- CISCE + statesPerform matrix operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, transpose) and vector arithmetic/applications relevant to AI
- CISCE + statesApply Set Theory to data-table joins and relational algebra, and calculate simple statistical measures (mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation)
- CISCE + statesAnalyse data trends using mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation; apply probability basics including uniform, normal and binomial distributions
- CISCE + statesFormulate null and alternative hypotheses, identify Type I and Type II errors, and apply simple linear regression and correlation coefficient for prediction and relationship measurement
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the ability of models and simulations to test and support the refinement of hypotheses.
Unit 3: Advanced Projects 24 topics
When AI Needs to Look Things Up20 lessons· meets 13 requirements inADEKCBSECISCE + statesCSTA (US)+2
- When AI Needs to Look Things Up
- How RAG Works
- Put the Pipeline in Order
- Why Can't a Language Model Just Memorize Everything?
- Why RAG Matters
- Search Can Make Generation More Trustworthy
- Match RAG Components
- Good Answers Often Depend on Good Chunks
- Sort: RAG vs No-RAG Use Cases
- Vector Search Explained
- Cosine by Hand
- Tune a RAG Pipeline
- ChatGPT Search Shows Retrieval in Action
- Which Retrieval Fits?
- Match RAG Challenges
- Spot Good RAG Design
- RAG Systems Quiz
- Explain Why RAG Matters
- RAG Vocabulary
- Retrieval, Explained
- ADEKDesign a scalable AI system architecture
- CBSEExplain the importance of data literacy in AI; identify data collection methods and applications; comprehend matrices and their operations; apply basic data analysis techniques (mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance); visualise data using line/bar/histogram/scatter/pie charts with matplotlib (Unit 5: Data Literacy - Data Collection to Data Analysis).
- CISCE + statesPerform matrix operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, transpose) and vector arithmetic/applications relevant to AI
- CISCE + statesApply Set Theory to data-table joins and relational algebra, and calculate simple statistical measures (mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation)
- CISCE + statesAnalyse data trends using mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation; apply probability basics including uniform, normal and binomial distributions
- CISCE + statesFormulate null and alternative hypotheses, identify Type I and Type II errors, and apply simple linear regression and correlation coefficient for prediction and relationship measurement
- CSTA (US)Describe how current AI models (e.g., LLMs) use data representation.
- CSTA (US)Choose and use an appropriate representation of complex data for processing by an AI algorithm.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from giving examples of symbols encountered in daily life such as restroom icons and card suits (K-2), to explaining hierarchical tree structures such as ancestry trees and taxonomies (3-5), to translating a structure like a game board, road map, or mind map into a labeled graph of nodes and links (6-8), to translating the premises of a syllogism from English into predicate-logic notation and completing the inference (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from drawing a tree by repeatedly splitting branches and placing data at nodes (K-2), to describing the parts of a tree (nodes, parent, leaves) and how they relate (3-5), to describing the parts of a labeled graph (nodes, links, source/target) and how trees are a special case of graphs (6-8), to describing how schemas structure information about people, places, or things within knowledge graphs used by search engines (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from identifying the features that make objects in a collection unique and organizing them into a feature table (K-2), to constructing a feature-vector representation for a set of objects and showing that similar objects lie close together in feature space (3-5), to explaining how word embeddings represent words as numeric vectors for tasks like machine translation (6-8), to describing how a transformer network maps sequences of word-embedding vectors to output sequences (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from demonstrating how a computer produces different verb tense/agreement forms (K-2), to experimenting with a speech-to-text system's ability to resolve ambiguous words via context (3-5), to illustrating how word embeddings support reasoning about word meaning, e.g. outlier detection and analogy completion (6-8), to demonstrating how a small context-free grammar parses or generates simple sentences and where it falls short, e.g. subject-verb agreement (9-12).
- ChinaStudents learn the basic process, implementation principles and core algorithms behind AI systems
Building Your First RAG21 lessons
- Building Your First RAG
- The RAG Pipeline Steps
- Why Does Building RAG Fail Even When the Idea Is Correct?
- Chunking Strategies
- Chunk Maths by Hand
- Small Pipeline Choices Change the Whole System
- Match Tools to Tasks
- Chunk Overlap Often Prevents Hidden Failures
- Sort: Retrieval Pipeline Order
- Code Building Blocks
- Trace the Chunker
- Tune a RAG Index
- LangChain Speeds Up RAG Prototypes
- Match Chunk Sizes
- Spot Good RAG Implementation
- Test the Retriever
- Building RAG Quiz
- Explain Building RAG
- RAG Building Terms
- How Your Plan Is Judged
- RAG Builder!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Customization Challenge20 lessons
- The Customization Challenge
- What Are LLMs?
- Why Can't Prompts Always Replace Fine-Tuning?
- Fine-Tuning Explained
- Which Lever?
- General Models Can Become Specialists
- Match: Fine-Tuning Concepts
- Tokens Shape Cost More Than People Expect
- Sort: Fine-Tuning Approaches
- Understanding Tokens
- Count the Training Tokens
- Tune a Fine-Tuning Strategy
- OpenAI Fine-Tuning Creates Task-Specific Assistants
- Plan a Fair Fine-Tune
- Match: Problem to Fix
- Spot: When to Fine-Tune?
- Fine-Tuning Mastery Quiz
- Explain Fine-Tuning
- Fine-Tuning Vocabulary
- Fine-Tuning Expert!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Efficiency Revolution20 lessons
- The Efficiency Revolution
- What is PEFT?
- How Can Tiny Updates Change Huge Models?
- LoRA Deep Dive
- LoRA by Hand
- Efficiency Can Expand Who Gets To Build AI
- Match: PEFT Techniques
- Adapters Can Be Stored Like Skills
- Sort: Full vs PEFT Fine-Tuning
- QLoRA Revolution
- Will It Fit?
- Tune a PEFT Setup
- Hugging Face Makes LoRA Sharing Practical
- Match: LoRA Hyperparameters
- Spot: When to Use PEFT
- Plan a QLoRA Project
- PEFT Mastery Quiz
- Explain LoRA and PEFT
- PEFT Vocabulary
- PEFT Pioneer!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Beyond Generic Chatbots20 lessons· meets 1 requirement inCBSE
- Beyond Generic Chatbots
- Custom Chatbot Architecture
- Why Doesn't a Generic Chatbot Feel Personal or Useful Enough?
- How the Parts Are Wired
- Memory Maths by Hand
- Architecture Can Turn a Model Into an Assistant
- Match: Chatbot Components
- Memory Changes User Experience Immediately
- Sort: Memory Types
- Tools & Function Calling
- Order the Tool-Call Loop
- Tune a Custom Chatbot
- Discord Bots Show Custom Chatbot Design in Practice
- Match: Deployment Options
- Spot: Custom Chatbot Features
- Design Maya's Helper
- Custom Chatbots Quiz
- Explain Custom Chatbots
- Chatbot Vocabulary
- Chatbot Designer
From Chatbots to Agents20 lessons· meets 4 requirements inADEKCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)Australia + NZ
- From Chatbots to Agents
- The ReAct Pattern
- Why Does an Agent Need To Think Before Acting?
- Designing Maya's Agent
- Trace Maya's Agent
- Planning Turns Tools Into Real Capability
- Match: Agent Design Parts
- Observation Is What Makes Agents Adaptive
- Sort: Does It Need an Agent?
- Agent Frameworks
- Tune an AI Agent
- Retries by Hand
- OpenAI Agents SDK Enables Goal-Driven Workflows
- Guard Maya's Agent
- Match: Multi-Agent Patterns
- Spot: Good Agent Design
- AI Agents Mastery Quiz
- Explain AI Agents
- Agent Vocabulary
- Agent Designer
- ADEKDesign a scalable AI system architecture
- CSTA (US)Develop programs for multiple computing platforms.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from illustrating a next possible board state in tic-tac-toe (K-2), to illustrating how a computer represents game play as a linear sequence of board positions connected by legal moves (3-5), to illustrating how a computer solves a maze, finds a map route, or reasons over a knowledge graph by drawing a search tree (6-8), to identifying real-world problems (task planning, scheduling, resource allocation) as search problems and describing their states and operators (9-12).
- Australia + NZStudents use an iterative process to design, develop, document, and test advanced computer programs, e.g. developing a GUI-based program that responds to user inputs (button clicks, text input, drop-down/radio selections)
Beyond Simple Image Recognition20 lessons· meets 3 requirements inCBSECISCE + statesChina
- Beyond Simple Image Recognition
- Vision Task Hierarchy
- Why Isn't One Label Enough for an Image?
- Pick the Output
- Modern Vision Architectures
- One Image Can Be Understood in Layers
- Match: Vision Tasks to Models
- Foundation Models Changed Vision
- Sort: Segmentation Types
- CLIP and Zero-Shot Vision
- Zero-Shot by Hand
- IoU: How Good Is a Box?
- IoU by Hand
- Segment Anything Makes Pixel-Level Vision Practical
- Match: Vision Applications
- Spot: Which Vision Task?
- Advanced Vision Quiz
- Explain Advanced Vision
- Vision Vocabulary
- Beyond Classification
- CBSEExplain computer vision and its significance in visual data analysis; understand key stages (acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction, analysis); identify real-world applications in healthcare, surveillance, autonomous vehicles; analyse challenges (ethics, privacy, technical limitations); develop basic skills using OpenCV and deploying ML models online (Unit 3).
- CISCE + statesIntroduce Computer Vision and OpenCV applications in real-world scenarios: image classification, object detection, facial recognition, colour detection and object tracking (brief explanation with examples)
- ChinaStudents learn core AI concepts, theory, and application domains
The Voice Revolution20 lessons· meets 9 requirements inCISCE + statesAI4K12 (US)OECD–EC (Europe)
- The Voice Revolution
- Speech Recognition Pipeline
- Why Is Human Speech Harder Than Typed Text?
- OpenAI Whisper
- Sound to Text, in Order
- Messy Audio Can Become Clean Language
- Match: Speech Recognition Models
- Whisper Learned From Massive Audio Variety
- Sort: Traditional vs End-to-End
- Beyond Transcription
- Word Error Rate Lab
- WER by Hand
- Whisper Handles Real-World Voices
- Plan a Fair Speech Test
- Match: Applications
- Spot: Speech Recognition Challenges
- Speech Recognition Quiz
- Explain Speech Recognition
- Speech Recognition Vocabulary
- Chapter Complete
- CISCE + statesDescribe the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP) — text understanding, text generation, language translation, question answering/chatbots, dialogue systems — and internet search types (navigation, informational, transactional, investigative, voice)
- CISCE + statesApply Named Entity Recognition (NER) to classify names of people/organizations/locations in text, perform text summarization by extraction, and build a spam-email classifier using Machine Learning
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from explaining how images are digitally represented as 2D pixel arrays (3-5), to explaining how sounds are digitally encoded via waveform sampling (6-8), to explaining how radar, lidar, GPS, and accelerometer data are represented and computed (9-12). K-2 is marked N/A for this topic.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from giving examples of intelligent vs. non-intelligent machines and discussing what makes a machine 'intelligent' (K-2), to demonstrating a machine perception tool (e.g. speech transcription, object recognition) and explaining why it is perception rather than mere sensing (3-5), to giving examples of specialized perception algorithms (face detection, obstacle detection, speech recognition, etc.) (6-8), to explaining how perception algorithms power real-world applications like license plate readers and Google Lens (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from giving examples of visual features (parts, textures, colors) used to recognize an object class such as cats (K-2), to illustrating how face detection extracts facial features (3-5), to simulating an edge detector to illustrate feature extraction from images (6-8), to explaining how features (formants, edges, intensity gradients) are extracted from waveforms and images at multiple scales (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from describing the sounds that make up spoken language and giving example words for each vowel sound (K-2), to illustrating how sequences of sounds are recognized as candidate words despite unclear signals (3-5), to illustrating how sequences of words are recognized as phrases by resolving ambiguity with higher-level information (6-8), to illustrating the full abstraction hierarchy from waveform to sentence in speech understanding (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from discussing why intelligent agents need to understand languages other than English (K-2), to discussing why domain knowledge must be broad enough to cover accents, dialects, and musical genres (3-5), to describing how a vision system can exhibit cultural bias if it lacks knowledge of objects outside its creators' culture, e.g. non-US traffic signs (6-8), to describing technical difficulties (e.g. low-contrast faces, children's speech) in making perception systems work well for diverse groups (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from demonstrating what an intelligent assistant like Siri or Alexa can and cannot do (K-2), to demonstrating question types a search engine or assistant can and cannot answer (3-5), to describing NLP tasks such as summarization, sentiment analysis, question answering, and machine translation (6-8), to describing NLP approaches ranging from keyword/template matching to deep neural networks, and when each is appropriate (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Be aware that AI systems are typically developed in English-speaking contexts and can work less accurately in non-English contexts, e.g. machine translation between less-used language pairs (AI example 55, competence 2.5).
How Does It Know?17 lessons· meets 3 requirements inUAEOECD–EC (Europe)
- How Does It Know?
- Types of Recommendation
- How Did the App Predict Maya's Next Click?
- Collaborative Filtering Deep Dive
- Taste Can Be Learned From Behavior Patterns
- Match: Recommendation Approaches
- The Netflix Prize Changed Recommendation AI
- Sort: Strengths & Weaknesses
- Modern Deep Learning RecSys
- Tune a Recommender
- YouTube Recommendations Learn From Watch Patterns
- Match: Real-World Systems
- Spot: RecSys Challenges
- Recommendation Systems Quiz
- Explain Recommendation Systems
- RecSys Vocabulary
- RecSys Expert!
Predicting the Future20 lessons· meets 1 requirement inUAE
- Predicting the Future
- Time Series Components
- If the Future Is Uncertain, Why Do Forecasts Work?
- Name the Component
- From Traditional to Deep Learning
- Time Patterns Hide Inside Ordinary Data
- Match: Time Series Methods
- Simple Forecasting Models Often Win First
- Sort: When to Use What
- Time Series Applications
- Tune a Forecast
- Smooth It by Hand
- Google Maps Predicts Traffic From Time Patterns
- Build an Honest Backtest
- Match: Forecasting Horizons
- Spot: Time Series Challenges
- Time Series AI Quiz
- Explain Time Series Forecasting
- Time Series Vocabulary
- Time Series Master!
The AI Olympics20 lessons
- The AI Olympics
- Competition Types
- How Can a Teenager Beat Experts in AI?
- How Competitions Work
- Competition Feedback Can Accelerate Learning
- Match: Kaggle Terminology
- Tiny Score Gains Often Come From Better Validation
- Sort: Winning Strategies
- Competition Skills
- Read the Folds
- Is That Leaderboard Jump Real?
- Kaggle Turns Practice Into Public Benchmarking
- A Clean Competition Workflow
- Match: Kaggle Ranks
- Spot: Competition Best Practices
- Leak or Legit?
- Competition Judgement Quiz
- Explain Cross-Validation
- Kaggle Vocabulary
- Competition Champion!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Advanced Projects Journey Complete21 lessons· meets 2 requirements inAI4K12 (US)China
- Advanced Projects Journey Complete
- Skills You Now Have
- What Actually Changed Across Unit 3?
- Match the Symptom to the Part
- Which Part Fixes It?
- Many AI Skills Now Fit Into One Mental Model
- Match Concepts to Chapters
- Production AI Usually Combines Multiple Patterns
- Sort: LLM-Based or Specialised?
- Quick Reference
- Balance an AI Product Stack
- Chain by Hand
- ChatGPT Combines Multiple AI Patterns
- Match Problems to Solutions
- Spot Best Practices
- Plan the Build, in Order
- Unit 3 Review Quiz
- Explain Your Design
- Unit 3 Key Terms
- How Your Plan Is Judged
- Unit 3 Review Complete
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from identifying a problem as a classification problem or a search problem (K-2), to categorizing problems as classification vs. search using examples like Teachable Machine (3-5), to categorizing problems as classification, prediction, combinatorial search, or sequential decision problems (6-8), to categorizing real-world problems across eight reasoning-problem types including heuristic search, adversarial search, logical deduction, and statistical inference (9-12).
- ChinaStudents learn core AI concepts, theory, and application domains
The Knowledge Problem20 lessons
- The Knowledge Problem
- RAG Revealed
- Why Does a Smart Chatbot Still Make Up Rules?
- Three RAG Components
- Search Can Make AI More Trustworthy
- Component Match
- Meaning Beats Keywords in Good Retrieval
- RAG vs Others
- When to Use?
- Tune a RAG System
- Recall@k by Hand
- A School Bot Could Answer From the Handbook
- Is the Answer Supported?
- Semantic vs Keyword
- Where Did It Fail?
- Spot the RAG Use!
- RAG Mastery Quiz
- Explain Why RAG Helps
- RAG Vocabulary
- RAG Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
From Theory to Code20 lessons
- From Theory to Code
- LangChain Components
- Why Can't We Just Feed the Whole Book to the Model?
- The Art of Chunking
- Trace the Splitter
- Good Retrieval Starts Long Before the Answer
- Chunking Match
- Chunk Design Can Make or Break Retrieval
- Embeddings, Storage and MMR
- Database Choice
- Tune MMR's Balance
- MMR by Hand
- LangChain Helps Teams Assemble RAG Faster
- RAG Troubleshooting
- Diagnose Maya's Bot
- RAG Design Decisions
- RAG Building Quiz
- Explain Chunking
- Building Vocabulary
- RAG Builder!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Customization Challenge20 lessons· meets 1 requirement inUAE
- The Customization Challenge
- Fine-Tuning Revealed
- Why Isn't RAG Enough for Expert Style?
- RAG vs Fine-Tuning
- A Model Can Keep Its General Skills and Gain Specialization
- Which Approach?
- Data Quality Matters More Than Hype
- Fine-Tuning Approaches
- Method Match-Up
- LoRA's Share of One Matrix
- LoRA Weights by Hand
- A Support Bot Can Be Fine-Tuned for Brand Voice
- Fine-Tuning Pitfalls
- Plan Maya's Fine-Tuning Run
- Good or Bad Practice?
- Diagnose the Run
- Fine-Tuning Quiz
- Explain Fine-Tuning
- Fine-Tuning Terms
- Fine-Tuning Decisions
The GPU Problem20 lessons
- The GPU Problem
- LoRA Explained
- How Can Tiny Adapters Change a Huge Model?
- Count the Adapter
- The PEFT Family
- Specialization No Longer Belongs Only to Big Labs
- PEFT Match-Up
- Tiny Adapter Files Can Be Surprisingly Powerful
- LoRA Configuration
- Will It Fit?
- Resource Match
- Tune a LoRA Setup
- Hugging Face Makes Adapter Sharing Practical
- LoRA Superpowers
- LoRA Best Practices
- LoRA & PEFT Quiz
- Plan the Run
- Explain LoRA
- PEFT Vocabulary
- PEFT Planner
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Beyond Simple Chat20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inCBSEAI4K12 (US)
- Beyond Simple Chat
- Chatbot Ingredients
- Why Does a Raw LLM Forget the Conversation?
- Memory Systems
- Buffer Cost by Hand
- Conversation Can Feel Continuous Because the App Adds State
- Memory Match
- Production Bots Often Combine Memory Types
- One Turn of Hybrid Memory
- Chatbot Tools
- Tool Selection
- How Fast Does a Full Buffer Grow?
- ChatGPT Layers Memory and Tools on Top of the Model
- Bot Personality
- Design the Shop Bot
- Chatbot Design
- Chatbot Quiz
- Explain Chatbot Memory
- Chatbot Vocabulary
- Chatbot Designer
- CBSEDevelop understanding of the complexities of human language and challenges in NLP tasks (emotion detection, sentiment analysis, classification, chatbots); learn techniques/algorithms for NLP tasks and phases of NLP; create a chatbot using a conversational platform (Unit 7: Leveraging Linguistics and Computer Science).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from drawing a tree by repeatedly splitting branches and placing data at nodes (K-2), to describing the parts of a tree (nodes, parent, leaves) and how they relate (3-5), to describing the parts of a labeled graph (nodes, links, source/target) and how trees are a special case of graphs (6-8), to describing how schemas structure information about people, places, or things within knowledge graphs used by search engines (9-12).
Beyond Chatbots20 lessons· meets 5 requirements inADEKCSTA (US)OECD–EC (Europe)UNESCO
- Beyond Chatbots
- Agent Components
- What Makes an Agent Different From a Tool-Using Chatbot?
- ReAct Framework
- Trace the Loop
- A Model Can Turn Thought Into Action Loops
- Agent Match-Up
- Most Agent Failures Come From Bad Guardrails
- Agent vs Chatbot
- Task Assignment
- Tune an Agent Workflow
- Token Growth by Hand
- AutoGPT-Style Systems Show Agent Thinking in Action
- Agent Safety
- Read the Agent's Log
- Agent Design
- Agent Quiz
- Explain AI Agents
- Agent Vocabulary
- Agent Guardrails
- ADEKDesign a scalable AI system architecture
- CSTA (US)Demonstrate code reuse by creating programming solutions using libraries and APIs.
- CSTA (US)Modify an existing program to add additional functionality and discuss intended and unintended implications (e.g., breaking other functionality).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Establish checkpoints, monitor AI use against criteria, and adjust roles throughout a problem-solving process (Manage 4, advanced).
- UNESCOBuild technical and social-responsibility skills to make decisions on optimizing, reconfiguring, or shutting down an AI system based on test results and user feedback (three scenarios: optimize datasets/model/interface; reconfigure problem-scoping/architecture; or shut down and remediate where the system violates human rights or harms vulnerable groups) (CG4.3.4.2).
Seeing Like AI23 lessons· meets 2 requirements inCBSECISCE + states
- Seeing Like AI
- Vision Tasks
- Why Isn't One Label Enough for a Photo?
- YOLO: Speed King
- NMS by Hand
- One Image Can Support Many Kinds of Understanding
- Vision Match
- Promptable Vision Models Changed the Field
- SAM: Segment Anything
- Model Selection
- The Frame Budget
- Frame Budget by Hand
- Photoshop-Style Background Removal Uses Segmentation
- Detect, Then Segment
- CLIP: Vision + Language
- Self-Supervised Vision: Learning Without Labels
- Self-Supervised True or False
- Run the Contrastive Loss
- Vision Decisions
- Vision Quiz
- Explain Vision Tasks
- Vision Vocabulary
- Vision Master!
- CBSEExplain computer vision and its significance in visual data analysis; understand key stages (acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction, analysis); identify real-world applications in healthcare, surveillance, autonomous vehicles; analyse challenges (ethics, privacy, technical limitations); develop basic skills using OpenCV and deploying ML models online (Unit 3).
- CISCE + statesIntroduce Computer Vision and OpenCV applications in real-world scenarios: image classification, object detection, facial recognition, colour detection and object tracking (brief explanation with examples)
Teaching AI to Hear23 lessons· meets 1 requirement inAI4K12 (US)
- Teaching AI to Hear
- Speech to Text Pipeline
- Why Is Speech Harder Than Clean Text?
- Whisper: Sizes and Limits
- Messy Audio Can Become Usable Language
- Speech Match
- HuBERT: Learning Speech Without Transcripts
- HuBERT True or False
- Run the Masked Frames
- Whisper Scaled Robust Speech Recognition
- Speech AI Tasks
- Task Selection
- One Turn of a Voice Assistant
- Tune a Speech System
- Real-Time Factor by Hand
- YouTube Captions Depend on Speech Recognition
- Speech Challenges
- Plan Maya's Transcriber
- Speech Decisions
- Speech Quiz
- Explain Speech-to-Text
- Speech Vocabulary
- Speech Expert!
How Does It Know?20 lessons· meets 12 requirements inCBSECSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)OECD–EC (Europe)+1
- How Does It Know?
- Two Approaches
- How Does the App Guess What Maya Will Like?
- Collaborative Filtering
- Maya's Taste Twin
- Taste Patterns Can Be Learned From Massive Interaction Data
- Recommendation Match
- Tiny Ranking Gains Matter at Scale
- Modern Deep Recs
- Approach Selection
- Tune a Recommender
- Cosine by Hand
- YouTube Rankings Depend on Recommendation Models
- Pipeline of a Feed
- Recommendation Challenges
- Rec System Design
- Recommendations Quiz
- Explain Recommendation Systems
- Rec System Vocabulary
- Rec System Expert!
- CBSEDifferentiate types of machine learning methods (supervised: regression, classification/k-NN; unsupervised: clustering/k-means); understand the concept behind each method; apply methods to develop solutions for day-to-day situations, e.g. Pearson correlation and linear regression in MS Excel/Python (Unit 6: Machine Learning Algorithms).
- CSTA (US)Describe how current AI models (e.g., LLMs) use data representation.
- CSTA (US)Choose and use an appropriate representation of complex data for processing by an AI algorithm.
- CSTA (US)Describe different types of AI algorithms and models, and compare and contrast the strengths and limitations of their reasoning.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from constructing a map of a home, school, or neighborhood and understanding that 'the map is not the territory' (K-2), to demonstrating how different map styles (geometric vs. topological) capture different aspects of the world (3-5), to showing how a game board (tic-tac-toe, chess) can be represented as a plain-language description of squares, relationships, and piece positions (6-8), to describing how to represent a concept as a schema.org-style schema with superconcepts and inherited properties (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from identifying the features that make objects in a collection unique and organizing them into a feature table (K-2), to constructing a feature-vector representation for a set of objects and showing that similar objects lie close together in feature space (3-5), to explaining how word embeddings represent words as numeric vectors for tasks like machine translation (6-8), to describing how a transformer network maps sequences of word-embedding vectors to output sequences (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Analyse how AI shapes beliefs and behaviours (Engage 1, advanced level).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Weigh the benefits and drawbacks of data-shaped access to information from predictive AI systems (Engage 4, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Weigh the benefits and disadvantages of using AI-driven search engines, including privacy and commercial-interest trade-offs (AI example 31, competence 1.1).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Be aware that AI algorithms may embody a commercial or political message rather than only serving the user's information need, with possible negative consequences such as reproducing stereotypes or spreading misinformation (AI example 48, competence 1.2).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Be aware that content shared publicly online can be used to train AI systems (e.g. facial-recognition training on shared photos), which may raise privacy concerns (AI example 45, competence 2.2).
- UNESCOAcquire age-appropriate technical skills in AI programming, understanding how supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement-learning algorithms scrape/process data, train, and function (CG4.2.3.2).
The Weather Wizard20 lessons· meets 1 requirement inCSTA (US)
- The Weather Wizard
- Time Components
- The Monday Rain Puzzle
- Real Cycle or Coincidence?
- ARIMA Explained
- Difference by Hand
- The Future Leaves Clues
- Forecasting Match
- Patterns Beyond Weather
- LSTM Networks
- Method Sorting
- Tune a Forecast
- Read the Horizon
- Forecasting Inside a Weather App
- Prophet Tool
- Spot Time Series AI
- Time Series Quiz
- Explain the Pattern
- Forecasting Words
- Forecasting Toolkit
Data Science Arena23 lessons· meets 1 requirement inAI4K12 (US)
- Data Science Arena
- Competition Flow
- The Leaderboard Surprise
- Feature Magic
- Features and Folds by Hand
- Tiny Changes, Huge Jumps
- Kaggle Match
- What Winners Focus On
- Folds in Order
- Ensemble Power
- Inside Bagging and Boosting
- Bagging or Boosting?
- Run the Ensembles
- Strategy Sorting
- Build a Stronger Entry
- Leaderboard Noise by Hand
- Why Kaggle Rankings Change Fast
- Kaggle Medals
- Spot Good Strategy
- Kaggle Quiz
- Explain a Winning Strategy
- Competition Words
- Competition Ready!
Unit 3 Complete!20 lessons· meets 4 requirements inCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)OECD–EC (Europe)
- Unit 3 Complete!
- Skills Unlocked
- Knowledge vs Skill
- Your Portfolio
- Projects Become a Portfolio
- Skills Match
- How Real Products Work
- When to Use What
- Choose the Approach
- Complexity Sort
- Design a Stronger AI System
- Majority Vote by Hand
- One App, Many AI Layers
- Pro Tips
- Symptom → Practice
- Apply Your Skills
- Unit 3 Final Quiz
- Explain System Design
- Unit 3 Vocabulary
- Advanced AI Master!
- CSTA (US)Analyze the risks, benefits, and effectiveness of using AI for specific tasks (e.g., coding, brainstorming), including when AI is used to fully automate a process or is used with a human-in-the-loop approach.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from identifying a problem as a classification problem or a search problem (K-2), to categorizing problems as classification vs. search using examples like Teachable Machine (3-5), to categorizing problems as classification, prediction, combinatorial search, or sequential decision problems (6-8), to categorizing real-world problems across eight reasoning-problem types including heuristic search, adversarial search, logical deduction, and statistical inference (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from modeling the use of a classification or search algorithm to solve a simple problem (K-2), to describing differences between decision-tree and neural-network classification algorithms (3-5), to comparing several algorithms that could solve a specific reasoning problem based on input data and decision complexity (6-8), to listing, for each of eight reasoning-problem types, an algorithm that could solve it (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Compare task complexity, the need for human judgment, and ethical implications when deciding whether to use AI (Manage 1, advanced).
Unit 4: AI Entrepreneurship 24 topics
From Code to Product20 lessons· meets 6 requirements inCISCE + statesCSTA (US)OECD–EC (Europe)Korea, Japan, HK
- From Code to Product
- The AI Product Framework
- The Impressive Demo Problem
- Product-Market Fit for AI
- Useful Beats Impressive
- Match: AI Product Successes
- Invisible AI Wins
- Sort: Does This Need AI?
- Indian AI Product Success Stories
- From Pain Point to MVP
- Test the Product Fit
- Score It by Hand
- A Product People Use Without Thinking About AI
- Match: Product Thinking Terms
- Spot: Good vs Bad AI Product Thinking
- AI Product Thinking Quiz
- Pressure-Test Three Pitches
- Explain Product Fit
- Product Thinking Vocabulary
- Product Thinker!
- CISCE + statesExplain Machine Learning as computers learning to make predictions/decisions from data without explicit programming, with an example such as predicting house prices using a decision tree
- CSTA (US)Analyze the risks, benefits, and effectiveness of using AI for specific tasks (e.g., coding, brainstorming), including when AI is used to fully automate a process or is used with a human-in-the-loop approach.
- CSTA (US)AI content is integrated (not a separate strand): students learn rule-based vs. data-driven approaches, machine learning basics, and related societal impacts such as bias, within the Algorithms & Design strand.
- OECD–EC (Europe)Compare task complexity, the need for human judgment, and ethical implications when deciding whether to use AI (Manage 1, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Evaluate the effectiveness of an AI approach considering context, data, efficiency, transparency, and impact (Manage 2, advanced).
- Korea, Japan, HKUnderstand the characteristics of machine learning versus traditional (rule-based) programming, judge which problems are suited to machine-learning-based AI, and collect data appropriate to the problem.
Who Actually Wants This?20 lessons· meets 1 requirement inCBSE
- Who Actually Wants This?
- 5 Market Research Methods
- The Friendly Feedback Trap
- TAM, SAM, SOM -- Market Sizing
- Size It by Hand
- Questions Shape Products
- Match: Research Method to Situation
- Signals Worth Trusting
- Sort: Good vs Bad Research Questions
- Rewrite the Question
- Real Market Research Wins
- Measure the Validation
- Testing Demand Before Building
- The Ladder of Evidence
- Match: Market Sizing Terms
- Spot: Research Red Flags
- Market Research Mastery Quiz
- Explain Market Validation
- Market Research Vocabulary
- Market Researcher!
How Does Free AI Make Money?20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inOECD–EC (Europe)
- How Does Free AI Make Money?
- 6 AI Business Models
- The Free App Riddle
- Unit Economics: Does the Maths Work?
- LTV by Hand
- Revenue Can Hide Behind the Experience
- Match: Company to Business Model
- Why Investors Love Recurring Revenue
- Sort: Revenue Models by Type
- Indian Business Models
- Read the Metrics
- Tune the Business Model
- How an AI Assistant Makes Money
- What the Free Tier Costs
- Match: Business Terms
- Spot: Sustainable AI Business Models
- Business Models Quiz
- Explain the Revenue Logic
- Business Model Vocabulary
- Business Model Mapped
- OECD–EC (Europe)Weigh the benefits and disadvantages of using AI-driven search engines, including privacy and commercial-interest trade-offs (AI example 31, competence 1.1).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Be aware that AI algorithms may embody a commercial or political message rather than only serving the user's information need, with possible negative consequences such as reproducing stereotypes or spreading misinformation (AI example 48, competence 1.2).
Build Less, Learn More21 lessons· meets 2 requirements inCSTA (US)Australia + NZ
- Build Less, Learn More
- Famous MVPs and What They Tested
- The Tiny MVP Shock
- The AI MVP Playbook
- A Prototype Can Be a Message
- Riskiest Assumption First
- Match: Idea to MVP Shape
- Speed Creates Insight
- Sort: MVP vs Over-Engineered
- Tools and Metrics for an AI MVP
- What Would the Test Cost?
- Cost and Footprint by Hand
- A Video Before the Product
- Match: Which Metric Is This?
- Put the Test in Order
- Spot: Good MVP Decisions
- MVP Development Quiz
- Explain MVP Thinking
- MVP Vocabulary
- How Your Plan Is Judged
- MVP Builder!
The Feature Nobody Asked For20 lessons· meets 1 requirement inCBSE
- The Feature Nobody Asked For
- 4 Types of User Research
- The Feature Mismatch
- User Personas -- Know Your User
- Users Teach Through Behavior
- Match: Research Type to Question
- Patterns in Human Behavior
- Sort: User Says vs User Does
- User Research That Changed Products
- Ask Without Leading
- Did Version B Really Win?
- Lift by Hand
- A Tiny UX Change With Huge Impact
- Match: Research Tools
- Spot: Good Research Practices
- Plan Your Research Sprint
- User Research Quiz
- Explain User Research
- User Research Vocabulary
- User Researcher!
60 Seconds to Change Everything20 lessons
- 60 Seconds to Change Everything
- The Perfect Pitch Structure
- The Invisible Pitch Problem
- Build the Deck
- The Elevator Pitch -- 60 Seconds
- One Line Can Carry the Whole Product
- Match: Pitch Slide to Content
- Traction Talks Louder
- Sort: Strong vs Weak Pitch Lines
- Pitches That Won in India
- Size the Market Bottom-Up
- Finish the Trace
- Why the Best Pitches Sound Simple
- Match: Pitch Mistakes to Fixes
- Spot: Investor-Ready Claims
- Pitching AI Products Quiz
- Explain the Pitch Logic
- Your Own 60 Seconds
- Pitching Vocabulary
- Pitch Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Where Does Startup Money Come From?20 lessons
- Where Does Startup Money Come From?
- The Funding Journey
- The Funding Tradeoff
- Equity, Valuation, and Dilution
- Valuation by Hand
- Ownership Is Only Part of the Story
- Match: Funding Stages
- Why Grants Matter Early
- Sort: Bootstrapped vs VC-Funded
- Where to Find Funding in India
- Does It Cost Equity?
- Model the Fundraise
- Maya's Runway Plan
- Growing Without Investors
- Match: Funding Terms
- Spot: Smart Funding Decisions
- Funding Basics Quiz
- Explain Dilution
- Funding Vocabulary
- Funding Expert!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
India's AI Revolution20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)
- India's AI Revolution
- India's AI Unicorns
- Why Does India Produce So Many AI Opportunities?
- India's AI Advantage: The India Stack
- Free, Paid or Restricted?
- India's Complexity Is a Startup Advantage
- Match: Indian AI Startup to Problem Solved
- Constraints Can Make Better AI
- Sort: AI Sectors in India
- Student-Founded AI Startups
- How Long Would the Download Take?
- Minutes on a Weak Link
- Bhashini Makes Language AI Easier to Build
- AI Needed, or Rules Suffice?
- Match: India Stack Components
- Spot: India-Specific AI Opportunities
- Indian AI Startups Quiz
- Explain India's AI Edge
- Indian AI Ecosystem Vocabulary
- India AI Expert!
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the impact of equity, access, and influence on the distribution of computing resources in a global society.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from identifying current uses of AI and how they have impacted society (K-2), to identifying how sectors of society such as manufacturing, retail, and healthcare are changing due to AI (3-5), to comparing AI-driven societal change to previous industrial revolutions (6-8), to predicting how a specific sector of society is likely to change in the short and intermediate term as a result of AI, referencing Amara's Law (9-12).
When AI Breaks the Law20 lessons· meets 9 requirements inADEKCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)OECD–EC (Europe)+2
- When AI Breaks the Law
- 3 Legal Pillars for AI in India
- The Project That Suddenly Needed a Lawyer
- Which Pillar?
- DPDP Act 2023 -- What You Must Do
- Law Appears Before You Expect It
- Match: Legal Requirement to Action
- Tiny Products Can Carry Big Legal Risk
- Sort: Legal vs Illegal for AI Products
- Real AI Legal Cases
- Read the Case
- Count What a Breach Would Expose
- Exposure by Hand
- ChatGPT Shows Why Training Data Matters
- Match: Legal Terms
- Spot: Legally Safe AI Practices
- Legal Considerations Quiz
- Explain AI Compliance Basics
- Legal Vocabulary for AI Builders
- Legal Eagle!
- ADEKAI governance/civic participation
- CSTA (US)Debate laws and regulations that impact the development and use of software.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from analyzing deepfake images/videos to identify the flaws that currently reveal them, e.g. thispersondoesnotexist.com (3-5), to critiquing uses of AI technology for surveillance or privacy violation, e.g. face recognition, license-plate trackers (6-8), to identifying appropriate areas for AI regulation and evaluating proposed legislation, e.g. autonomous-vehicle laws (9-12). K-2 is marked N/A.
- OECD–EC (Europe)Know that processing of personal data by AI (e.g. voice interactions with a virtual assistant) is subject to regulations such as the EU GDPR and can carry data protection, privacy and security risks (AI example 39, competence 4.2).
- UNESCOUnderstand that human accountability is a legal obligation of AI creators and AI service providers, who are answerable for safety incidents, ethical risks in design/training, and misuses of their AI service (CG4.2.1.1).
- UNESCOCarry out responsible AI practices in compliance with ethical principles and locally applicable regulations, iteratively building and following a personal checklist of lawful and responsible practices (e.g. protecting privacy/copyright, marking AI-generated content, avoiding disinformation, hate speech, or sensitive content about identifiable individuals) (CG4.2.2.1).
- UNESCOGain an age-appropriate understanding of personal, legal and ethical responsibilities when using AI and reinforce self-disciplined behaviours around sensitive personal data, copyrighted materials, deepfake/identifiable-person imagery, and the spread of misinformation, disinformation or hate speech (CG4.2.2.2).
- UNESCOCategorise general safety risks of AI and typical AI incidents, deepen knowledge of human rights to data protection and privacy and creators' legal responsibility to collect data only with informed consent, and practise strategies to ensure personal data is collected, used, shared, archived and deleted only with consent (CG4.2.2.3).
- SingaporeLearn to use AI: use AI tools safely and responsibly.
From 100 to 1 Million Users20 lessons
- From 100 to 1 Million Users
- 5 Strategies to Scale AI
- Why Growth Can Break an AI Product
- The Economics of AI at Scale
- Maya's Bill by Hand
- Tiny AI Costs Multiply Fast
- Match: Scaling Problem to Solution
- Most AI Products Mix Fast and Slow Models
- Sort: Scaling Stages
- How Indian Companies Scale AI
- Tune Your Scaling Strategy
- Read the Bill
- Notion AI Balances Speed and Cost
- Put the Scaling Plan in Order
- Match: Cost Comparison
- Spot: Smart Scaling Decisions
- Scaling AI Products Quiz
- Explain AI Scaling
- Scaling Vocabulary
- Scale Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Algorithm That Discriminated20 lessons· meets 23 requirements inADEKCBSECISCE + statesIB+6
- The Algorithm That Discriminated
- Five Tensions in AI Business
- How Can Fair Code Produce Unfair Results?
- Building Ethical AI: The FATE Checklist
- Bias Grows When Decisions Are Automated
- Match: Ethical Problem to Solution
- History Can Quietly Train Unfair AI
- Selection Rates by Hand
- Sort: Ethical vs Unethical AI Practices
- Real Ethical Failures in AI
- Order a Bias Audit
- Four-Fifths Check on Maya's Shortlist
- Amazon's Hiring AI Became a Warning Sign
- Judge Maya's Tool
- Match: FATE Framework
- Spot: Responsible AI Decisions
- AI Ethics in Business Quiz
- Explain Responsible AI
- AI Ethics Vocabulary
- Chapter Complete
- ADEKDeepfakes: explain, spot flaws, set responsible-use rules
- ADEKFacial recognition: privacy/safety/fairness tension
- CBSEDemonstrate understanding of the fundamental principles of ethics in AI and the five pillars of AI Ethics; understand AI bias, its sources, real-world implications, and mitigation strategies; identify and apply strategies to promote fairness and transparency; recognise the significance of AI policies in promoting responsible, safe, ethical AI use (Unit 8: AI Ethics and Values).
- CISCE + statesApply an AI code of ethics — avoiding bias, ensuring privacy of users and their data, mitigating environmental impact, and evaluating the effects of designing technology that replicates human life
- IBEvaluate ethical implications of AI/ML systems, including bias, fairness, and transparency, as part of the machine learning content
- CSTA (US)Debate laws and regulations that impact the development and use of software.
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the design, motivation, outcomes, and potential impacts of AI systems using ethical design criteria and/or ethical frameworks.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from evaluating the ways a decision impacts different people differently (K-2), to evaluating how an AI technology, e.g. speech or facial recognition, has different effects on different demographic groups (3-5), to evaluating how various stakeholders' conflicting goals and values shape AI system design decisions (6-8), to explaining how the use of AI systems (e.g. health-risk algorithms) has led to documented disparate impacts on different groups (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from discussing what makes a system fair vs. unfair through a fair-distribution exercise (K-2), to evaluating whether an AI system meets the design criteria of transparency and explainability (3-5), to evaluating whether an AI system meets the design criteria of accountability and respect for privacy (6-8), to analyzing whether an AI system satisfies the full set of ethical design criteria: fairness, transparency, explainability, accountability, respect for privacy, and adherence to societal values (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from analyzing deepfake images/videos to identify the flaws that currently reveal them, e.g. thispersondoesnotexist.com (3-5), to critiquing uses of AI technology for surveillance or privacy violation, e.g. face recognition, license-plate trackers (6-8), to identifying appropriate areas for AI regulation and evaluating proposed legislation, e.g. autonomous-vehicle laws (9-12). K-2 is marked N/A.
- OECD–EC (Europe)Analyse how AI shapes beliefs and behaviours (Engage 1, advanced level).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Analyse how institutional deployment of AI can serve particular interests and amplify societal bias (Engage 6, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Evaluate how well an AI use aligns with ethical principles and human values across trade-offs (Engage 7, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Be aware that the data on which AI depends may include biases which can be automated and worsened by AI use (AI example 49, competence 1.2).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Know that 'deep-fakes' are AI-generated images, video, or audio of events or people that did not really happen, and may be indistinguishable from the real thing (AI example 51, competence 1.2).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Recognise that AI applications directly interacting with humans and making decisions about their lives (e.g. CV-sorting, exam scoring) can be controversial even where other AI applications are not (AI example 63, competence 2.3).
- UNESCOEvaluate the consequences of institutional use of AI to make high-stakes decisions about people (e.g. profiling students, hiring, loan/assessment scoring) and understand why human accountability must not be ceded to AI in such decisions (CG4.2.1.2).
- UNESCOCarry out responsible AI practices in compliance with ethical principles and locally applicable regulations, iteratively building and following a personal checklist of lawful and responsible practices (e.g. protecting privacy/copyright, marking AI-generated content, avoiding disinformation, hate speech, or sensitive content about identifiable individuals) (CG4.2.2.1).
- UNESCOGain an age-appropriate understanding of personal, legal and ethical responsibilities when using AI and reinforce self-disciplined behaviours around sensitive personal data, copyrighted materials, deepfake/identifiable-person imagery, and the spread of misinformation, disinformation or hate speech (CG4.2.2.2).
- UNESCOGain evidence-based insight into the pervasive adoption of AI as infrastructure of social activity, and critique challenges AI poses to inclusion, justice and sustainability, including AI-amplified bias against women, marginalised ethnic groups and socio-economically disadvantaged people (CG4.3.1.1).
- SingaporeLearn to use AI: use AI tools safely and responsibly.
- Australia + NZStudents understand that generative AI tools should be used in ways that benefit all members of the school community and support wellbeing, not just individual convenience
- Australia + NZStudents are taught that generative AI tools must be used, and their outputs treated, in ways that are accessible, fair and respectful to all users, being alert to potential bias in AI outputs
Maya's Entrepreneurship Journey Complete20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inADEKUNESCO
- Maya's Entrepreneurship Journey Complete
- Chapters 61–71 in Six Cards
- What Turns an AI Builder Into an Entrepreneur?
- The AI Entrepreneur's Checklist
- Which Box Is Unchecked?
- Many Skills Become One Launch System
- Grand Review: Match Concepts
- Great Startups Blend Product, Business, and Ethics
- Sort: First Steps vs Later Steps
- Your AI Startup Toolkit
- Check Maya's Runway
- Runway by Hand
- Niramai Solved a Real Indian Problem First
- One Build-Measure-Learn Cycle
- Match: Problem to Indian AI Solution
- Final Challenge: Ready to Launch?
- Chapters 61–71 Quiz
- Explain AI Entrepreneurship
- Key Terms, Chapters 61–71
- Chapters 61–71 Reviewed
The Startup Dream20 lessons
- The Startup Dream
- Project vs Product
- Why Doesn't a Great Project Become a Great Product?
- Problem-First
- Problems Create Better Products Than Features
- Mindset Match
- Many Smart Teams Still Build the Wrong Thing
- AI Opportunities
- Mistake Sorting
- Test Product Thinking Strength
- Funnel by Hand
- Canva Turned Creative Friction Into a Product
- Validate First
- Questions That Reveal Pain
- Spot Good Ideas
- Maya's Validation Plan
- Product Quiz
- Explain Product Thinking
- Startup Words
- Product Thinker!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Reality Check20 lessons
- The Reality Check
- TAM SAM SOM
- Why Did the Investor Reject a 'Huge' Market?
- Size It, Then Doubt It
- Know Your Competition
- A Small SOM Can Still Build a Big Company
- Research Match
- Competitors Can Reveal Hidden Opportunity
- Build Personas
- Check the AI's Persona
- Research Methods
- Stress-Test Your Market Research
- What One Customer Costs
- Physics Wallah Understood a Clear Segment First
- Validation Tricks
- Spot Good Research
- Research Quiz
- Explain TAM, SAM, and SOM
- Research Words
- Research Pro!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Money Question20 lessons
- The Money Question
- Subscription Model
- Why Did Users Love the Product but Not Pay?
- Freemium Strategy
- Who Pays for the Free Users?
- Revenue Design Shapes Product Design
- Model Match
- Free Users Can Be Your Most Expensive Users
- Unit Economics
- Is Jake Ready to Scale?
- Metrics Sorting
- Tune Your Business Model
- ChatGPT Plus Made AI Revenue Understandable
- Pricing Strategies
- Pricing Calls
- Spot Good Models
- Business Model Quiz
- Explain AI Business Models
- Business Terms
- Business Savvy!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Building Trap21 lessons· meets 1 requirement inCBSE
- The Building Trap
- MVP Defined
- Why Did the Perfect Product Fail?
- MoSCoW Method
- Ugly Can Be a Competitive Advantage
- Hypothesis First
- Feature Match
- No-Code Tools Can Beat Slow Custom Builds
- Build Approaches
- Priority Sorting
- Optimize Your MVP Plan
- NPS by Hand
- Dropbox Validated Demand Before Building Big
- MVP Metrics
- Read Lisa's Beta Numbers
- Spot Good MVPs
- MVP Quiz
- Explain MVP Thinking
- MVP Terms
- How Your Plan Is Judged
- Ship It Fast!
Maya's Discovery20 lessons
- Maya's Discovery
- Market Gaps Revealed
- How Does a Frustrating Day Become a Business Idea?
- The Three Pillars
- Boring Problems Often Hide Great Startups
- Pillar Match
- Which Leg Breaks?
- Shared Pain Is the Real Signal
- Evaluation Framework
- Honest or Overclaim?
- Strong vs Weak
- Does the AI Actually Save Time?
- Net Hours by Hand
- Niramai Started With a Serious Healthcare Gap
- Sources of Ideas
- Spot the Opportunity
- Knowledge Check
- Explain a Strong Opportunity
- Key Vocabulary
- Opportunity Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
James Saves Months20 lessons
- James Saves Months
- MVP Revealed
- Why Can Building Less Teach You More?
- Build-Measure-Learn
- A Tiny Product Can Save Months of Waste
- Match the Steps
- Users Often Care About Different Features Than Founders
- Behaviour or Opinion?
- Five MVP Approaches
- MVP vs Full Product
- Tune an MVP Strategy
- Loops by Hand
- Dropbox Proved Demand Before Building Everything
- MVP Mistakes
- Ranking People Responsibly
- Smart MVP Choices
- Knowledge Check
- Explain MVP Learning
- Key Vocabulary
- MVP Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Priya's Pricing Crisis20 lessons
- Priya's Pricing Crisis
- AI Economics Revealed
- Why Can Your Best Customer Be Unprofitable?
- Unit Economics by Hand
- Value-Based Pricing
- AI Pricing Must Respect Reality
- Pricing Match
- Value Can Matter More Than Cost Plus Margin
- Six Business Models
- B2B vs B2C Sort
- Test a Pricing Model
- Trace the Margin
- OpenAI Uses Tiers to Match Value and Cost
- Price Your Own Project
- Advanced Strategies
- Smart Pricing Choices
- Knowledge Check
- Explain AI Pricing
- Key Vocabulary
- Monetization Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Chen's $15K Lesson20 lessons
- Chen's $15K Lesson
- GTM Strategy Revealed
- Why Did Broad Marketing Fail So Badly?
- Three GTM Motions
- Proof Beats Hype in AI Marketing
- GTM Motion Match
- Narrow Positioning Can Create Faster Growth
- Narrow vs Broad Entry
- Sort Market Entry
- Strengthen a GTM Plan
- Funnel by Hand
- HubSpot Grew by Matching Message to Customer Journey
- Your Project's GTM
- Positioning Strategies
- A One-Page GTM Plan
- Smart GTM Choices
- Knowledge Check
- Explain GTM Strategy
- Key Vocabulary
- GTM Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Sofia's Viral Nightmare20 lessons
- Sofia's Viral Nightmare
- The Scaling Trilemma
- Why Can Going Viral Hurt an AI Product?
- Horizontal vs Vertical
- Growth Is a Technical and Business Problem
- Scaling Match
- Redundancy Can Be More Valuable Than Raw Power
- Cost Optimization
- Build vs Buy Sort
- Sofia's Bill by Hand
- Balance a Scaling Plan
- Availability by Hand
- Netflix Shows Why Resilience Matters at Scale
- Scaling Challenges
- Diagnose the Symptom
- Smart Scaling Choices
- Knowledge Check
- Explain AI Scaling Tradeoffs
- Key Vocabulary
- Scaling Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Alex's 30 Rejections20 lessons
- Alex's 30 Rejections
- Funding Stages Revealed
- Why Did Investors Ignore the Amazing Tech?
- What Investors Want
- Size It Bottom-Up
- Technology Matters Most When It Strengthens the Business
- Funding Match
- A Smaller Equity Share Can Still Create More Value
- Funding Sources Deep Dive
- Bootstrap vs VC Sort
- Stress-Test a Fundraising Story
- Check Alex's Numbers
- Figma Raised Around Product Love and Growth Potential
- Fundraising Mistakes
- Evidence or Assertion?
- Smart Pitch Choices
- Knowledge Check
- Explain Fundraising Readiness
- Key Vocabulary
- Investor Lens
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Liam's Team Problem20 lessons
- Liam's Team Problem
- Three Core Capabilities
- Why Can a Brilliant AI Team Still Fail to Ship?
- Research vs Product
- Settle the Argument
- Team Diversity Creates Better AI Products
- Role Match
- Healthy Tension Can Improve a Product
- Hiring Timeline
- Generalist vs Specialist
- Balance an AI Team
- Weakest Link by Hand
- OpenAI Grew Through More Than Research Alone
- Team Challenges
- Diagnose the Symptom
- Smart Team Choices
- Knowledge Check
- Explain AI Team Building
- Key Vocabulary
- Team Builder!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Nina's $85M Decision20 lessons
- Nina's $85M Decision
- Exit Paths Revealed
- Why Would Someone Reject $85 Million?
- Why Companies Acquire
- An Exit Is a Strategic Choice, Not Just a Payday
- Exit Timeline Match
- Buyers Often Want More Than Just the Product
- Read the Buyer's Motive
- Exit Path Comparison
- IPO vs Acquisition Sort
- Test an Exit Strategy
- Expected Value by Hand
- Instagram Shows the Power of a Strategic Acquisition
- Exit Considerations
- Before the Offer Arrives
- Smart Exit Choices
- Knowledge Check
- Explain Exit Strategy
- Key Vocabulary
- Entrepreneur Complete!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Unit 5: Career Preparation 24 topics
A Million AI Jobs, Zero Candidates20 lessons· meets 3 requirements inADEKCBSECSTA (US)
- A Million AI Jobs, Zero Candidates
- Top AI Career Paths
- Why Are So Many AI Jobs Open at Once?
- Read the Headline Number
- The AI Career Roadmap for Students
- Skills Can Outweigh Credentials in AI Hiring
- Match: Role to Daily Work
- Different AI Careers Need Different Strengths
- Sort: Skills by Career Path
- Which Role Fits?
- Rough AI Salary Bands in India (2025)
- Plan Your Project Hours
- Plan by the Numbers
- LinkedIn Shows How Demand Clusters Around Real Skills
- Match: Company to AI Focus
- Spot: Career-Building Activities
- AI Career Landscape Quiz
- Explain the AI Talent Gap
- AI Career Vocabulary
- Career Navigator!
- ADEKCareers, future of work
- CBSEArticulate the demand for AI professionals and diverse career opportunities; identify requisite skills and tools for AI careers; understand roles/responsibilities of AI professionals across industries; evaluate own interests/skills to determine career pathways in AI (Unit 2: Unlocking your Future in AI).
- CSTA (US)Evaluate and analyze the roles of humans and human decision-making in the creation of AI.
The Portfolio That Got the Interview20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inSingaporeAustralia + NZ
- The Portfolio That Got the Interview
- 5 Projects Every AI Portfolio Needs
- Why Did Five Projects Beat Two Hundred Resumes?
- The README -- Your Project's First Impression
- Audit the Results Line
- A Portfolio Tells the Story of Your Growth
- Match: Portfolio Strength to Project
- Different Projects Signal Different Career Strengths
- Sort: Strong vs Weak Portfolio Items
- Portfolio Project Ideas for Indian Students
- How Sure Is 81%?
- Checkable or Unbacked?
- GitHub Gives Recruiters Direct Proof
- Match: README Section to Content
- Assemble Maya's README
- Spot: Portfolio Best Practices
- Portfolio Building Quiz
- Explain Portfolio Value
- Portfolio Vocabulary
- Portfolio Builder!
- SingaporeDevelop digital literacy and technological skills needed to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven world, as a central goal of the Masterplan.
- Australia + NZStudents understand that their privacy and personal data must be protected when using generative AI tools, and are taught not to input sensitive personal or others' data into such tools without appropriate safeguards
Your Digital Identity20 lessons
- Your Digital Identity
- GitHub Profile Optimization
- Why Can a Messy GitHub Profile Hide Good Work?
- Git Workflow for AI Projects
- GitHub Is Part Resume, Part Portfolio, Part Reputation
- Ship a Feature, In Order
- Match: Git Command to Purpose
- Small Git Habits Create Stronger Signals
- Sort: Good vs Bad Git Practices
- Profile and Commit Check
- Contributing to Open Source
- Why Weights Bloat a Repo
- Weights in History
- GitHub Profiles Often Decide Who Gets a Closer Look
- Match: What Goes in .gitignore
- Spot: GitHub Profile Red Flags
- GitHub Best Practices Quiz
- Explain GitHub's Career Value
- GitHub Vocabulary
- GitHub Pro!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
6 Seconds to Impress20 lessons
- 6 Seconds to Impress
- The AI Resume Template
- The 6-Second Resume Mystery
- The XYZ Formula for Impact
- Why One Strong Bullet Beats Ten Weak Ones
- Label the X, Y and Z
- Match: Weak vs Strong Resume Bullets
- Sort: Include vs Exclude on AI Resume
- What Resume Bots Actually Notice
- ATS -- The Robot Reading Your Resume
- Inside the ATS
- Keyword Coverage
- Coverage by Hand
- How LinkedIn Recruiters Scan Profiles
- Match: Resume Section Order
- Spot: Resume Mistakes
- AI Resume Quiz
- Explain Resume Impact
- Resume Vocabulary
- Resume Expert!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Interview That Changed Everything20 lessons
- The Interview That Changed Everything
- 5 Types of AI Technical Questions
- The Project Deep-Dive Mystery
- The STAR Method for Technical Answers
- Build a STAR Answer
- The Same Project Can Tell Two Very Different Stories
- Match: Question to Best Answer Approach
- Sort: Good vs Bad Interview Answers
- Why One Follow-Up Question Can Expose Weak Preparation
- Survive the Follow-Up
- Common AI Interview Questions (With Answers)
- The Screening Trade-off
- Precision and Recall by Hand
- How LeetCode Helps, and Where It Doesn't
- Match: ML Concept to Intuitive Explanation
- Spot: Interview Preparation Best Practices
- Technical Interview Quiz
- Explain Technical Depth
- Interview Vocabulary
- Interview Ready!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Whiteboard Challenge20 lessons· meets 15 requirements inIBEngland + CambridgeCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)
- The Whiteboard Challenge
- 5 Essential Coding Patterns for AI Roles
- The Pattern Recognition Mystery
- The Problem-Solving Framework
- Order the Method
- Trace It by Hand
- One Good Pattern Can Unlock Hundreds of Problems
- Match: Problem to Pattern
- Sort: Python vs Data Structure Knowledge
- Why Efficient Thinking Feels Like Magic
- Practice Platforms & How to Use Them
- Tune a Coding Interview Approach
- Big-O by Hand
- How LeetCode Builds Interview Muscle Memory
- Match: Python Trick to Its Use
- Spot: Good Coding Interview Practices
- Coding Interview Quiz
- Explain Coding Patterns
- Coding Interview Vocabulary
- Code Warrior!
- IBApply computational thinking strategies (decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, algorithm design) to solve problems
- IBConstruct and trace algorithms expressed in pseudocode, independent of a specific programming language's syntax
- IB(HL only) Implement abstract data types such as stacks, queues, linked lists, and trees
- England + CambridgeUnderstand several key algorithms that reflect computational thinking (e.g. sorting and searching); use logical reasoning to compare the utility of alternative algorithms for the same problem
- England + CambridgeFollow and create algorithms presented as flowcharts using standard symbols (start, stop, process, decision, connector), including multiple variables
- England + CambridgeFollow, edit and create algorithms using flowcharts and pseudocode; use selection statements and Boolean logic; progress from linear to binary search
- England + CambridgeShow understanding of how graphs can be used to aid AI, and use A* and Dijkstra's algorithms to perform searches on a graph (candidates not required to write the search algorithms themselves)
- England + CambridgeWrite algorithms for linear/binary search and insertion/bubble sort; use and implement Abstract Data Types (stack, queue, linked list, binary tree, dictionary); compare algorithms using Big O notation for time and space complexity
- CSTA (US)Use flowcharts and/or pseudocode to address complex problems as algorithms.
- CSTA (US)Use and adapt classic algorithms to solve computational problems.
- CSTA (US)Evaluate algorithms in terms of their efficiency, correctness, and clarity.
- CSTA (US)Compare and contrast fundamental data structures and their uses.
- CSTA (US)Illustrate the flow of execution of a recursive algorithm.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from drawing a tree by repeatedly splitting branches and placing data at nodes (K-2), to describing the parts of a tree (nodes, parent, leaves) and how they relate (3-5), to describing the parts of a labeled graph (nodes, links, source/target) and how trees are a special case of graphs (6-8), to describing how schemas structure information about people, places, or things within knowledge graphs used by search engines (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from drawing a simple 3-node search tree showing two possible tic-tac-toe moves (K-2), to drawing a full search tree of next moves for tic-tac-toe or nim and picking the best move (3-5), to modeling breadth-first search on a graph problem such as common-friend detection (6-8), to illustrating and comparing breadth-first, depth-first, and best-first search algorithms for growing a search tree (9-12).
Design It Like You'd Build It21 lessons· meets 6 requirements inADEKOECD–EC (Europe)UNESCOChina
- Design It Like You'd Build It
- The 5-Step ML System Design Framework
- The System Design Mystery
- Order the Framework
- Common ML System Design Problems
- A Great ML System Can Fail With a Great Model
- Match: System to Key Design Decision
- Sort: Online vs Offline Components
- Why Offline Accuracy Cannot Be Your Final Answer
- Review a Project Design
- Real ML Systems at Indian Companies
- Balance an ML System
- Precision by Hand
- Why Netflix-Style Thinking Shows Up Everywhere
- Match: ML Metric to Use Case
- Spot: Good ML System Design Practices
- ML System Design Quiz
- Explain ML System Design
- ML System Design Vocabulary
- How Your Plan Is Judged
- System Architect!
- ADEKDesign a scalable AI system architecture
- OECD–EC (Europe)Weigh the benefits and disadvantages of using AI-driven search engines, including privacy and commercial-interest trade-offs (AI example 31, competence 1.1).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Be aware that AI algorithms may embody a commercial or political message rather than only serving the user's information need, with possible negative consequences such as reproducing stereotypes or spreading misinformation (AI example 48, competence 1.2).
- UNESCOAcquire methodological and technical skills to evaluate frameworks/components (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn) and configure a scalable, maintainable, reusable prototype AI architecture (data, algorithm, model and interface layers) for a defined problem, considering open-source options (CG4.2.4.1).
- UNESCOAcquire the interdisciplinary technical skills and project-management competencies needed to build a prototype AI system for a simple specific task (e.g. a chatbot), including leveraging computing resources, selecting/enhancing AI models (e.g. hyperparameter optimization), and balancing cost against computing needs and environmental impact (CG4.2.4.2).
- ChinaSenior secondary students progress to applied innovation: refining AI algorithm models and interdisciplinary systems thinking (continuation of the 9-10 strand into upper senior grades)
The Question That Stumped Maya20 lessons
- The Question That Stumped Maya
- 5 Must-Prepare Behavioral Questions
- The Behavioral Interview Mystery
- The STAR Method Deep Dive
- Rebuild Maya's Answer
- Ordinary Experiences Become Powerful When Framed Well
- Match: Question to What It Really Tests
- Sort: Strong vs Weak STAR Responses
- Why Interviewers Keep Returning to Failure Stories
- How to Discuss Failures Like a Pro
- Strengthen a STAR Story
- Action Share by Hand
- Why Amazon Keeps Asking STAR Questions
- Evidence You Can Defend
- Match: Situation to Best Response Strategy
- Spot: Effective Behavioral Interview Answers
- Behavioral Interview Quiz
- Explain the STAR Method
- Behavioral Interview Vocabulary
- Story Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Choosing the Right Path20 lessons
- Choosing the Right Path
- Top AI/CS Programs in India
- The Silent Tiebreaker
- How AI Knowledge Strengthens Your Application
- Fit Beats Rank
- Where a Portfolio Counts
- Match: University to Unique Strength
- Sort: Indian vs International Application Requirements
- Signal Matters
- Application Tips from Successful Students
- Fit Score Lab
- Weighted Score by Hand
- Alumni Trail
- Strong or Weak Evidence
- Match: Entrance Exam to University
- Spot: Smart Application Strategies
- University Application Quiz
- Choice Logic
- University Application Vocabulary
- Application Ready!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
From Student to Researcher20 lessons
- From Student to Researcher
- Five Routes Into Research
- The Missing Language
- How to Read an AI Research Paper
- Which Pass Does It Need?
- Questions Become Papers
- Match: Research Tool to Its Job
- Sort: Good First Project or Too Ambitious?
- Research Has Friction
- Three Student Project Cases
- Project Scope Lab
- Viability by Hand
- Notebook Launchpad
- Match: Research Term to Meaning
- From Gap to Write-up
- Spot: Good Research Practices
- Research Opportunities Quiz
- Research Pitch
- Research Vocabulary
- Research-ready
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Connection That Changed Everything20 lessons
- The Connection That Changed Everything
- 5 Platforms to Build Your AI Network
- The Unexpected Reply
- Networking Without Being Awkward
- Build a Cold Message
- Tiny Posts, Big Doors
- Match: Networking Action to Outcome
- Sort: Effective vs Ineffective Networking
- Trust Builds Slowly
- Honest and Safe Outreach
- AI Meetups and Conferences in India
- Network Momentum
- Replies by Hand
- Profile Signal
- Match: Platform to Best Use Case
- Spot: LinkedIn Profile Best Practices
- Networking Quiz
- Network Plan
- Networking Vocabulary
- Community Builder!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Maya's Career Readiness Check20 lessons· meets 3 requirements inADEKCBSEUNESCO
- Maya's Career Readiness Check
- Unit 5 Key Concepts Review
- One Offer Only
- The Career Readiness Checklist
- Order a STAR Answer
- Habits Compound
- Match: Interview Type to Preparation Strategy
- Sort: Do Now vs Do Later Career Actions
- Proof Travels Fast
- Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Readiness Meter
- Trace the Readiness Score
- Portfolio Proof
- Claims a Reviewer Can Check
- Match: Career Skill to Where You Learned It
- Spot: Career-Ready Students
- Unit 5 Review Quiz
- Gap Check
- Unit 5 Key Terms Review
- Unit 5 Review Complete
- ADEKCareers, future of work
- CBSEArticulate the demand for AI professionals and diverse career opportunities; identify requisite skills and tools for AI careers; understand roles/responsibilities of AI professionals across industries; evaluate own interests/skills to determine career pathways in AI (Unit 2: Unlocking your Future in AI).
- UNESCOReflect on personal goals and a lifelong-learning, self-actualization attitude toward AI as it becomes pervasive in work, life and social practices (CG4.3.1.3).
Career Dreams!20 lessons
- Career Dreams!
- Market Explosion!
- Read the Number
- Why Alex Advanced
- From Project to Interview
- Top AI Careers
- Jobs Multiply
- Career Match!
- Two Paths
- Skills Transfer
- Path Sorter!
- Career Compass
- Funnel by Hand
- Recommendation Work
- Hot AI Fields!
- Spot the Job!
- Career Quiz!
- Career Fit
- Career Words!
- Future Pro!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Portfolio Power!20 lessons
- Portfolio Power!
- Key Ingredients!
- The 7-Second Portfolio Test
- Portfolio Parts
- Less Can Show More
- Portfolio Match!
- Good vs Bad
- The One-Line Pitch
- Proof Beats Claims
- Sort It Out!
- Tune Your Portfolio Strength
- Points or Percent?
- GitHub as a Portfolio Front Door
- Pin or Leave Off?
- README Secrets!
- Spot the Pro!
- Portfolio Quiz!
- Explain Portfolio Proof
- Portfolio Words!
- Portfolio Pro!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
GitHub Pro!22 lessons· meets 3 requirements inIBCSTA (US)Singapore
- GitHub Pro!
- Profile Power!
- The Quiet GitHub Advantage
- Clean Repos!
- Your Commits Tell a Story
- Commit or Ignore?
- GitHub Match!
- Pro vs Amateur
- Small Repo Signals Matter
- Leaked Key Drill
- Sort the Pros!
- Build Better Repo Hygiene
- GitHub Profiles as Living Resumes
- Power Features!
- Your First Pull Request
- Clean Up a Repo in Repo Lab
- Push Protection Said No
- Spot the Pro!
- GitHub Quiz!
- Explain Repo Hygiene
- GitHub Words!
- GitHub Master!
- IBCollaborate with students from other Group 4 (sciences) subjects on shared scientific investigation and collaborative-sciences project skills
- CSTA (US)Use version control systems, integrated development environments (IDEs), and collaborative tools and practices (code documentation) in a group software project.
- SingaporeDevelop digital literacy and technological skills needed to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven world, as a central goal of the Masterplan.
Resume Magic!20 lessons
- Resume Magic!
- Resume Rules!
- The Invisible Resume Problem
- Resume Sections
- One Bullet Can Do More
- Section Match!
- Power Bullets!
- Numbers Create Trust
- Assemble a Bullet
- Bullet Sorter!
- Get the Percentage Right
- Change by Hand
- LinkedIn Jobs Uses Searchable Signals
- Beat the Robots!
- Tailor It Honestly
- Spot the Pro!
- Resume Quiz!
- Explain ATS Keywords
- Resume Words!
- Resume Pro!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Portfolio Story!20 lessons
- Portfolio Story!
- Portfolio Parts!
- Why One Portfolio Stays With You
- Format Choice!
- Format Changes the Story
- Portfolio Match!
- Pro Tips!
- Build BusCast's Case Study
- Process Makes Work Stick
- Sort the Tips!
- How Much Time Does Each Project Get?
- Divide the Reviewer's Time
- Behance Rewards Clear Presentation
- Expert Secrets!
- Publish or Keep Private?
- Spot the Pro!
- Portfolio Quiz!
- Explain Portfolio Format
- Portfolio Words!
- Portfolio Pro!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Interview Win!20 lessons
- Interview Win!
- The STAR Method!
- Same Skills, Different Outcome
- Build a STAR Answer
- Interview Types!
- Stories Beat Labels
- Question Match!
- Pro Tips!
- Questions Change the Interview
- Sort the Tips!
- Strengthen Your Interview Answer
- Timing by Hand
- AI in One-Way Video Interviews
- Expert Secrets!
- AI in the Interview Room
- Spot the Pro!
- Interview Quiz!
- Explain STAR Answers
- Interview Words!
- Interview Pro!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Communication Win!20 lessons
- Communication Win!
- Four Pillars!
- When Communication Fails Fast
- Channel Choice!
- One Message, Many Signals
- Channel Match!
- Email Pro!
- Build the Email
- Listening Builds Trust
- Email Sorter!
- What Length Costs
- Length by Hand
- Slack Rewards Clear Signals
- Expert Skills!
- Three Styles
- Spot the Pro!
- Communication Quiz!
- Explain Channel Choice
- Communication Words!
- Communication Pro!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Networking Power!20 lessons
- Networking Power!
- Network Truths!
- The Internship That Came Later
- Networking Tips!
- Chat to Connection
- Networks Grow Quietly
- Setting Match!
- Do vs Don't!
- Questions Make You Memorable
- Sort the Moves!
- Strengthen a New Connection
- Reach by Hand
- LinkedIn Extends Real Meetings
- Evidence and Honest Drafts
- Pro Techniques!
- Spot the Pro!
- Networking Quiz!
- Explain Follow-Up Value
- Network Words!
- Network Pro!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Overwhelmed Intern20 lessons
- Overwhelmed Intern
- Time vs Energy
- Why More Hours Did Less
- Eisenhower Matrix
- Rest Can Raise Output
- Productivity Match
- Busy vs Productive
- Focus Has a Cost
- Sort the Tasks
- AI Triage Check
- Build a Better Workday
- Buffer by Hand
- Google Calendar Can Protect Deep Work
- Pro Strategies
- Plan a Project Day
- Spot the Productive
- Productivity Quiz
- Explain Productive Focus
- Productivity Words
- Productivity Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Paycheck Surprise20 lessons
- Paycheck Surprise
- Paycheck Secrets
- The Missing Paycheck Money
- Paycheck by Hand
- The 50/30/20 Rule
- Tiny Early Choices Compound
- Priority Match
- 401(k) vs Roth IRA
- Automation Beats Intention
- Sort the Spending
- Start Early vs Start Late
- Compounding by Hand
- Employer Match Is Real Compensation
- Money Habits
- When AI Does Your Money Maths
- Smart or Not?
- Finance Quiz
- Explain Net Pay Planning
- Money Words
- Paycheck Decoded
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
The Right Thing20 lessons· meets 4 requirements inUAEUNESCOKorea, Japan, HKChina
- The Right Thing
- Ethics Explained
- Why the Small Choice Matters
- Gray Areas
- Reputation Compounds Too
- Ethics Match
- AI at Work: Where Is the Line?
- Long-Term Wins
- Silence Sends Signals
- Sort the Actions
- Test an Ethical Decision
- Best of Many by Hand
- Compliance Hotlines Exist for a Reason
- Building Character
- Raising a Concern
- Spot the Ethics
- Ethics Quiz
- Explain Ethical Courage
- Ethics Words
- Ethics Champion!
- UAEEffectiveness of AI governance
- UNESCOArticulate personal and social responsibilities of citizens in an AI society — from both user and designer perspectives — including ensuring human control and accountability over every step of the AI life cycle (CG4.3.1.2).
- Korea, Japan, HKCultivate an attitude of participating proactively in, and contributing to the development of, the information society while creating new value through appropriate use of information and information technology and adherence to information morals (law, security).
- ChinaStudents understand the ethics and challenges of a smart/AI-driven society, strengthening information-security awareness, responsibility, and dialectical (balanced) views of AI
Jordan's Pivot20 lessons
- Jordan's Pivot
- Types of Transitions
- The Hidden Career Advantage
- Transferable Skills
- A Detour Can Become an Edge
- Timeline Match
- Push vs Pull
- Stories Make Pivots Make Sense
- Sort the Advice
- Plan a Stronger Pivot
- Runway by Hand
- LinkedIn Helps Reframe Your Path
- Say It in Their Words
- Read the Screener
- Best Practices
- Spot the Smart Move
- Transition Quiz
- Explain Transferable Skills
- Transition Words
- Transition Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Unit 6: Final Capstone 24 topics
The Big Idea29 lessons· meets 11 requirements inUAECBSECISCE + statesIB+6
- The Big Idea
- 5 Steps to Choosing Your Capstone Topic
- Testable or Vague?
- Why the Smaller Idea Wins
- Capstone Project Scope and Timeline
- Constraints Can Improve Creativity
- Match: Capstone Domain to Project Idea
- Sort: Realistic vs Overambitious Capstone Scope
- Good Ideas Need Filters
- Inspiring Capstone Projects by Indian Students
- Question the Cases
- Score Your Capstone Idea
- Trace the Fit Score
- GitHub Projects Help Scope Work
- Match: Project Phase to Key Deliverable
- Spot: Good Capstone Project Qualities
- Capstone Vision Quiz
- Explain Capstone Scope
- The Open Brief: Your Problem, Your Evidence
- Open Brief Check
- Regional Initiatives: Map Your Field
- Initiatives in Your Design
- SWOT to Actions
- Match Maya's SWOT Pairs
- The Ethics Log
- Phase to Check
- My Ethics Log
- Capstone Vocabulary
- Capstone Visionary!
- UAEDesign AI solutions with systematic design processes
- CBSEComplete a group Capstone Project (3-5 students) aligned with an SDG, following the design-thinking process (define problem, understand users, brainstorm/design solution, identify and collect data, build prototype, test solution, reflect individually and as a team, create a 3-minute video pitch); produce project documentation per the CBSE-IBM AI Project Cookbook (Part C).
- CISCE + statesGive an overview of decision making in machines/computers, cybersecurity in computing, and machine intelligence, plus the components of the AI project framework (problem scoping, data acquisition, data exploration, modelling and evaluation, in brief)
- IBDesign, develop, and document a self-identified computational solution (~35 hours) as the internal assessment, including a problem specification, planning, system overview, development, and evaluation
- CSTA (US)Implement an artificial intelligence algorithm to play a game against a human opponent or solve a problem.
- CSTA (US)Plan and develop programs for broad audiences using a software lifecycle process.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from describing how AI can be used to solve a societal problem, e.g. Code.org's AI for Oceans classifying wildlife vs. debris (K-2), to designing a solution to a societal problem using AI technology, e.g. environmental protection, energy conservation (3-5), to researching a societal problem and describing how AI perception/reasoning/learning technologies could address it, referencing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (6-8), to evaluating an actual AI-for-social-good project in terms of the problem addressed and its real or potential impact (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Design improvements to an AI system based on technical constraints, ethics, and user needs to promote societal benefit (Shape 4, advanced).
- UNESCOApply an integral, ethics-by-design set of principles across the whole AI life cycle, e.g. simulating the role of a 'chief ethics officer' drafting a checklist of ethical criteria to audit each step of an AI system's design (CG4.3.2.1).
- Korea, Japan, HKCapture varied phenomena as information and its connections, and apply information and information technology appropriately, effectively and creatively toward problem discovery and solution (content areas include content creation for communication, data processing, and programming to build information systems).
- ChinaStudents learn to develop AI applications and transfer that capability to solve problems in other real-life contexts
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants20 lessons· meets 1 requirement inCISCE + states
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- How to Conduct a Literature Review
- The Shortcut Hidden in Research
- Pass 1 Triage
- Finding and Using Research Papers
- One Paper Can Reframe Everything
- Match: Research Tool to Best Use
- Sort: Good vs Bad Literature Review Practices
- Citations Map the Field
- Turning Research Gaps into Your Contribution
- Sharpen the Gap Statement
- Strengthen a Literature Review
- Budget the Three Passes
- Google Scholar Turns Search Into Strategy
- Match: Paper Section to Its Content
- Spot: Strong Research Contributions
- Literature Review Quiz
- Explain Research Gaps
- Research Component Vocabulary
- Research Scholar!
The Blueprint Before the Building30 lessons· meets 22 requirements inADEKCISCE + statesIBCSTA (US)+5
- The Blueprint Before the Building
- 5 Key Architecture Decisions for Your Capstone
- The Cost of Skipping the Diagram
- System Architecture Diagrams
- Trace the Data Flow
- Every Diagram Is an Abstraction
- Kept or Left Out?
- Every Box Hides a Tradeoff
- Match: Component to Tool Choice
- Sort: Transfer Learning vs Train From Scratch
- Constraints Shape Design
- Paper Numbers vs Real Constraints
- Architecture Patterns for Common Capstone Types
- How Many Photos per Minute?
- Throughput by Hand
- FastAPI Makes Architecture Visible
- Match: Architecture Decision to Justification
- Spot: Sound Architecture Decisions
- Technical Architecture Quiz
- Explain System Tradeoffs
- The Gantt Plan
- Read the Critical Path
- Deliverable: System Prompt and Test Suite
- Build and Test in Prompt Lab
- What the Suite Shows
- Architecture Vocabulary
- How Your Plan Is Judged
- Your Blueprint
- Score Your Blueprint
- System Architect!
- ADEKDesign a scalable AI system architecture
- CISCE + statesGive an overview of decision making in machines/computers, cybersecurity in computing, and machine intelligence, plus the components of the AI project framework (problem scoping, data acquisition, data exploration, modelling and evaluation, in brief)
- IBDesign, develop, and document a self-identified computational solution (~35 hours) as the internal assessment, including a problem specification, planning, system overview, development, and evaluation
- IBEvaluate the success of a computational solution against its own requirements and identify possible improvements
- IBCollaborate with students from other Group 4 (sciences) subjects on shared scientific investigation and collaborative-sciences project skills
- CSTA (US)Implement an artificial intelligence algorithm to play a game against a human opponent or solve a problem.
- CSTA (US)Analyze a large-scale computational problem and identify generalizable patterns that can be applied to a solution.
- CSTA (US)Demonstrate code reuse by creating programming solutions using libraries and APIs.
- CSTA (US)Plan and develop programs for broad audiences using a software lifecycle process.
- CSTA (US)Use version control systems, integrated development environments (IDEs), and collaborative tools and practices (code documentation) in a group software project.
- CSTA (US)Develop and use a series of test cases to verify that a program performs according to its design specifications.
- CSTA (US)Modify an existing program to add additional functionality and discuss intended and unintended implications (e.g., breaking other functionality).
- CSTA (US)Evaluate key qualities of a program through a process such as a code review.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from constructing a map of a home, school, or neighborhood and understanding that 'the map is not the territory' (K-2), to demonstrating how different map styles (geometric vs. topological) capture different aspects of the world (3-5), to showing how a game board (tic-tac-toe, chess) can be represented as a plain-language description of squares, relationships, and piece positions (6-8), to describing how to represent a concept as a schema.org-style schema with superconcepts and inherited properties (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from modeling the use of a classification or search algorithm to solve a simple problem (K-2), to describing differences between decision-tree and neural-network classification algorithms (3-5), to comparing several algorithms that could solve a specific reasoning problem based on input data and decision complexity (6-8), to listing, for each of eight reasoning-problem types, an algorithm that could solve it (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Critically evaluate how AI feedback shapes one's ideas and reflect on the creative process (Create 3, advanced).
- UNESCOAcquire methodological and technical skills to evaluate frameworks/components (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn) and configure a scalable, maintainable, reusable prototype AI architecture (data, algorithm, model and interface layers) for a defined problem, considering open-source options (CG4.2.4.1).
- UNESCOAcquire the interdisciplinary technical skills and project-management competencies needed to build a prototype AI system for a simple specific task (e.g. a chatbot), including leveraging computing resources, selecting/enhancing AI models (e.g. hyperparameter optimization), and balancing cost against computing needs and environmental impact (CG4.2.4.2).
- UNESCOCustomize assessment methods/instruments to test self-crafted AI tools for robustness and ease of use, organise peer assessment and shared feedback, and build collaborative co-creator skills (CG4.3.3.3).
- Korea, Japan, HKCapture varied phenomena as information and its connections, and apply information and information technology appropriately, effectively and creatively toward problem discovery and solution (content areas include content creation for communication, data processing, and programming to build information systems).
- ChinaSenior secondary students progress to applied innovation: refining AI algorithm models and interdisciplinary systems thinking (continuation of the 9-10 strand into upper senior grades)
- ChinaStudents learn to develop AI applications and transfer that capability to solve problems in other real-life contexts
Development Phase 1 - Foundation and Baseline20 lessons· meets 11 requirements inCISCE + statesIBCSTA (US)UNESCO+1
- The First Line of Code
- Setting Up Your Development Environment
- Why Start So Simple?
- Building Your Baseline Model
- Floor by Hand
- Errors Can Be Useful
- Match: Task Type to Baseline Approach
- Sort: Do First vs Do Later in Development
- Good Foundations Look Repetitive
- Common Baseline Pitfalls and Solutions
- Baseline Build Order
- Strengthen Your Baseline Setup
- Weights & Biases Makes Baselines Comparable
- Diagnose the Run
- Match: Metric to What It Measures
- Spot: Good Foundation Practices
- Foundation and Baseline Quiz
- Explain Baseline Value
- Development Phase 1 Vocabulary
- Foundation Ready
- CISCE + statesGive an overview of decision making in machines/computers, cybersecurity in computing, and machine intelligence, plus the components of the AI project framework (problem scoping, data acquisition, data exploration, modelling and evaluation, in brief)
- CISCE + statesVisualize data using Python (matplotlib, seaborn) and Excel charts, and clean data (handle missing values, outliers, inconsistencies) with pandas and Excel data-cleaning features
- CISCE + statesClean data, explore Kaggle datasets, and create/manipulate data frames from Kaggle datasets
- CISCE + statesApply data transformation and standardization methods for analysis
- CISCE + statesPrepare data using NumPy and Pandas, and apply Scikit-learn for preprocessing tasks such as scaling, encoding categorical variables and train/test splitting
- CISCE + statesTune model hyperparameters (learning rate, batch size, number of hidden layers/neurons) using techniques such as grid search or random search
- IB(HL only) Apply data preprocessing and feature selection techniques when preparing data for a machine learning model
- IBApply object-oriented programming principles (classes, objects, inheritance, encapsulation) as mandatory content for all students
- CSTA (US)Construct solutions to problems using student-created components, such as procedures, modules and/or objects.
- UNESCOAcquire age-appropriate knowledge and skills on datasets — applying tools/languages to acquire, clean and transform data into a form suitable for storing, processing and analysing (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, SparkSQL, Apache Flink) (CG4.2.3.1).
- Korea, Japan, HKCollect data for machine learning, identify missing values and outliers, select attributes needed for the problem, and preprocess data into a usable form.
Development Phase 2 - Improvement and Refinement20 lessons· meets 5 requirements inCISCE + statesIBCSTA (US)
- From 82% to 93% -- The Iteration Game
- 5 Techniques to Boost Model Performance
- What Unlocked the Jump?
- The Improvement Cycle
- Read the Error Counts
- Tiny Changes Can Move Big Scores
- Match: Problem to Best Improvement Technique
- Sort: High-Impact vs Low-Impact Improvements
- Error Logs Hide Clues
- Three Illustrative Capstone Logs
- Read the Logs
- Tune an Improvement Plan
- Ensemble Vote by Hand
- Netflix Refines Recommendations in Loops
- Match: Hyperparameter to Its Effect
- Spot: Good Iteration Practices
- Improvement and Refinement Quiz
- Explain the Refinement Loop
- Improvement Phase Vocabulary
- Refinement Toolkit
- CISCE + statesGive an overview of decision making in machines/computers, cybersecurity in computing, and machine intelligence, plus the components of the AI project framework (problem scoping, data acquisition, data exploration, modelling and evaluation, in brief)
- CISCE + statesTune model hyperparameters (learning rate, batch size, number of hidden layers/neurons) using techniques such as grid search or random search
- IBDesign, develop, and document a self-identified computational solution (~35 hours) as the internal assessment, including a problem specification, planning, system overview, development, and evaluation
- CSTA (US)Plan and develop programs for broad audiences using a software lifecycle process.
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the ability of models and simulations to test and support the refinement of hypotheses.
Development Phase 3 - Polish and Deployment23 lessons· meets 6 requirements inCISCE + statesIBCSTA (US)Australia + NZ
- From Notebook to Production
- 5 Steps to Deploy Your Capstone
- Why Did the Great Model Fail Live?
- Code Quality for Your Capstone
- Ship It Safely
- Deployment Starts After Accuracy
- Match: Deployment Platform to Best Use Case
- Sort: Clean Code vs Code Smell
- Polish Prevents Panic
- Deployment Stories from Indian Student Projects
- Balance a Deployment Plan
- Model Size by Hand
- Google Maps Plans for Bad Connections
- Match: Error Scenario to Graceful Handling
- Read the respond() Code
- The User Round
- Blocker, Major or Minor?
- Iteration Log
- Spot: Production-Ready Practices
- Deployment and Polish Quiz
- Explain Deployment Readiness
- Deployment Vocabulary
- Deployment Master!
- CISCE + statesGive an overview of decision making in machines/computers, cybersecurity in computing, and machine intelligence, plus the components of the AI project framework (problem scoping, data acquisition, data exploration, modelling and evaluation, in brief)
- IBDesign, develop, and document a self-identified computational solution (~35 hours) as the internal assessment, including a problem specification, planning, system overview, development, and evaluation
- CSTA (US)Plan and develop programs for broad audiences using a software lifecycle process.
- CSTA (US)Develop programs for multiple computing platforms.
- CSTA (US)Students read, evaluate, and critique AI-generated code as part of the Programming strand.
- Australia + NZStudents use an iterative process to design, develop, document, and test advanced computer programs, e.g. developing a GUI-based program that responds to user inputs (button clicks, text input, drop-down/radio selections)
Testing and Validation - Ensuring Quality23 lessons· meets 2 requirements inCBSEOECD–EC (Europe)
- The Bug That Went Live
- 4 Types of Tests for AI Projects
- Why Did the Demo Break if Tests Passed?
- Writing Your First Unit Tests
- Run the Tests in Your Head
- Tests Catch Invisible Risks
- Match: Test Type to What It Catches
- Sort: Critical vs Nice-to-Have Tests
- Edge Cases Count as Real Users
- Edge Cases That Broke Real AI Systems
- Order Maya's Test Plan
- Is the Model Honest About Its Confidence?
- Calibration by Hand
- The Full Evaluation Sheet
- Which Criterion?
- My Evaluation Sheet
- PhonePe Tests Failure Paths First
- Match: Testing Term to Definition
- Spot: Good Testing Practices
- Testing and Validation Quiz
- Explain Test Coverage
- Testing Vocabulary
- Quality Guardian!
- CBSEIntegrate Data Science Methodology steps into the Capstone Project; identify the best way to represent a solution to a problem; understand the importance of validating machine learning models; use key evaluation metrics (MSE, RMSE, Precision, Recall, F1, Accuracy) for various machine learning tasks (Unit 2).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Design evaluation criteria for an AI system, compare its performance across inputs/users, and propose improvements (Shape 2, advanced).
Paper/Report Writing - Documenting Your Innovation23 lessons· meets 8 requirements inADEKCBSEIBOECD–EC (Europe)+1
- Your Work Deserves to Be Known
- The Standard Paper Structure
- Why Was the Strong Project Hard to Judge?
- Assemble an Abstract
- Writing Tips for Technical Papers
- Structure Makes Ideas Travel
- Match: Paper Section to Its Purpose
- Sort: Strong vs Weak Technical Writing
- Edit Like a Reviewer
- The Abstract Gets Read First
- Creating Effective Tables and Figures
- Read the Figure
- Points or Percent?
- GitHub Rewards Clear Documentation
- Match: Writing Principle to Example
- Spot: Good Paper Writing Practices
- Crediting AI in Your Paper
- Fix the Reference
- My AI-Use Statement
- Technical Writing Quiz
- Explain Paper Structure
- Technical Writing Vocabulary
- Paper Plan Ready
- ADEKBuild a data story (data + visuals + narrative for an audience)
- CBSEUnderstand the benefits and elements of storytelling; appreciate the role of data storytelling in data analysis/science/AI; learn to combine data, visuals, and narrative to present complex information effectively using the Narrative Structure of a Data Story (Freytag's Pyramid); create an effective data story from given data, and understand ethics in data storytelling (Unit 8).
- IBCredit and reference any AI-generated content used in coursework in the body of the text and in the bibliography, per IB academic integrity requirements
- IBUnderstand that any AI-generated work included, even in part, in a piece of assessment is not considered the student's own unless it is clearly credited in the text and referenced in the bibliography
- IBFollow the IB Academic Integrity policy's guidance on the ethical use of AI tools (per its dedicated appendix) when producing assessed work
- OECD–EC (Europe)Assess the ethical implications and justify how an AI-assisted work maintains authenticity (Create 4, advanced).
- Australia + NZStudents develop an understanding of how generative AI tools work in broad terms, how they can be used appropriately, and when/how such tools are affecting the content and information they see (transparency about AI-generated or AI-assisted content)
- Australia + NZStudents learn that use of generative AI outputs (e.g. in assessable work) must remain open to challenge, retain human agency, and that the student/user remains accountable for decisions made with AI assistance (e.g. academic integrity implications)
Presentation Preparation - Sharing Your Story23 lessons· meets 5 requirements inADEKCBSECSTA (US)Korea, Japan, HK+1
- From Builder to Storyteller
- The Perfect 10-Minute Presentation Structure
- Check the Hook
- Why Did Judges Forget the Best Project?
- Slide Design Principles
- Stories Carry Technical Ideas
- Match: Talk Section to Its Line
- Sort: Effective vs Ineffective Slide Design
- People Remember Demos
- Handling Q&A Like a Pro
- Budget Your Minutes
- Timing by Hand
- Google Slides Supports Confident Delivery
- Match: Tough Question to Strong Response
- Honest or Overclaim?
- Deliver and Record
- Score Your Talk
- Self-Assessment with Timestamps
- Spot: Effective Presentation Techniques
- Presentation Preparation Quiz
- Explain Presentation Flow
- Presentation Vocabulary
- Talk Plan Ready
- ADEKBuild a data story (data + visuals + narrative for an audience)
- CBSEUnderstand the benefits and elements of storytelling; appreciate the role of data storytelling in data analysis/science/AI; learn to combine data, visuals, and narrative to present complex information effectively using the Narrative Structure of a Data Story (Freytag's Pyramid); create an effective data story from given data, and understand ethics in data storytelling (Unit 8).
- CSTA (US)Implement an artificial intelligence algorithm to play a game against a human opponent or solve a problem.
- Korea, Japan, HKCapture varied phenomena as information and its connections, and apply information and information technology appropriately, effectively and creatively toward problem discovery and solution (content areas include content creation for communication, data processing, and programming to build information systems).
- ChinaStudents learn to develop AI applications and transfer that capability to solve problems in other real-life contexts
Capstone Exhibition - Your Moment to Shine29 lessons· meets 16 requirements inCBSEIBCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)+4
- Exhibition Day
- Setting Up Your Demo Booth
- Why Do Some Booths Stay Crowded?
- Making Your Demo Unforgettable
- Honest Claim or Inflated?
- A Minute Can Open a Crowd
- Match: Visitor Type to Best Approach
- Sort: Before Exhibition vs During Exhibition
- Visitors Judge Fast
- Run the Judge Walkthrough
- Getting and Using Feedback
- Design a Stronger Booth
- Failure Odds by Hand
- LinkedIn Turns Booth Chats into Opportunities
- Match: Exhibition Challenge to Solution
- Spot: Exhibition Best Practices
- Capstone: A Full Model Card
- Why the Card's Accuracy Is Optimistic
- Train, Graduate, Test on Others
- Read the Evaluation
- Which Section?
- Explain a Miss
- Explainability and Privacy Check
- Two New Card Sections
- Defend Your Card to a Judge
- Exhibition Preparation Quiz
- Explain Exhibition Strategy
- Exhibition Vocabulary
- Exhibition Champion!
- CBSEDevelop proficiency using the Orange Data Mining tool - navigate its interface, employ its features, execute data analysis tasks; demonstrate ability to apply Orange across AI domains including data science, computer vision, and NLP through hands-on projects (Unit 4: AI with Orange Data Mining Tool, practicals only).
- IBDesign, develop, and document a self-identified computational solution (~35 hours) as the internal assessment, including a problem specification, planning, system overview, development, and evaluation
- IBEvaluate the success of a computational solution against its own requirements and identify possible improvements
- CSTA (US)Implement an artificial intelligence algorithm to play a game against a human opponent or solve a problem.
- CSTA (US)Plan and develop programs for broad audiences using a software lifecycle process.
- CSTA (US)Using a dataset and a systematic process, develop an AI model to generate for classification or prediction, and articulate the assumptions made at each step: (1) develop a question solvable with AI, (2) collect or curate data, (3) evaluate the data, (4) train an AI model on the data, (5) evaluate the model, and (6) iteratively improve the model.
- CSTA (US)Evaluate an AI model (e.g., using a model card) to determine the model's features as well as its biases, explainability, fairness, privacy, accuracy, and transparency.
- CSTA (US)Train, iteratively improve, and then develop a model card for an AI model with ethical considerations for end users and others impacted: fairness, bias, safety, security, intellectual property, privacy, robustness, explainability, accuracy, transparency, and accountability.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from giving examples of intelligent vs. non-intelligent machines and discussing what makes a machine 'intelligent' (K-2), to demonstrating a machine perception tool (e.g. speech transcription, object recognition) and explaining why it is perception rather than mere sensing (3-5), to giving examples of specialized perception algorithms (face detection, obstacle detection, speech recognition, etc.) (6-8), to explaining how perception algorithms power real-world applications like license plate readers and Google Lens (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from creating a model card for a classification or prediction model documenting its intended use, training data, accuracy, and limitations (3-5), to constructing an ethical matrix of stakeholders and their values for an AI system and evaluating alignment (6-8), to designing an AI system using a full ethical design process that considers all stakeholders' values across fairness, transparency, explainability, accountability, privacy, and societal values (9-12). K-2 is marked N/A.
- UNESCODevelop a critical attitude to ethics-by-design principles behind existing AI systems/algorithms by auditing selected tools, proposing an ethics label, and recommending remedies for identified violations of ethical principles or regulations (CG4.3.2.2).
- UNESCOCustomize assessment methods/instruments to test self-crafted AI tools for robustness and ease of use, organise peer assessment and shared feedback, and build collaborative co-creator skills (CG4.3.3.3).
- UNESCOPractise critiquing AI systems by auditing whether a model enhances or weakens human capacities, agency and consciousness, checking the extent of its explainability and data-privacy protection, and measuring system performance and its broader societal/environmental impact (CG4.3.4.1).
- SingaporeLearn beyond AI: develop distinctly human capabilities and dispositions that AI cannot replicate.
- Korea, Japan, HKCapture varied phenomena as information and its connections, and apply information and information technology appropriately, effectively and creatively toward problem discovery and solution (content areas include content creation for communication, data processing, and programming to build information systems).
- ChinaStudents learn to develop AI applications and transfer that capability to solve problems in other real-life contexts
Reflection and Growth - Understanding Your Journey20 lessons
- Looking in the Mirror
- 5 Dimensions of Capstone Reflection
- Why Do Mistakes Matter Later?
- Writing Your Reflection Report
- Honesty Can Be Impressive
- Order the Report
- Match: Capstone Challenge to Lesson Learned
- Sort: Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset Responses
- Reflection Finds Patterns
- Three Growth Stories (Composites)
- Evidence, Cause or Change?
- Strengthen a Reflection Report
- Score It by Hand
- Notion Helps Growth Stay Visible
- Match: Evidence to Dimension
- Spot: Meaningful Reflection Statements
- Reflection and Growth Quiz
- Explain Reflective Growth
- Reflection Vocabulary
- Reflective Practitioner!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Graduation and Beyond - Your AI Journey Continues20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inUNESCOSingapore
- The Journey of a Lifetime
- Your Journey: Grade 6 to Grade 12
- What Skill Outlasts Every Tool?
- The AI Future You'll Shape
- Impact First?
- Your Future Is Bigger Than a Toolkit
- Match: What You Learned to How It Shapes the Future
- Sort: Skills That Last vs Skills That Change
- Learning Habits Compound
- Lifelong Learning: How to Stay Current in AI
- Three-Pass Reading
- Build a Learning Routine
- Hours by Hand
- Coursera Makes Lifelong Learning Practical
- Match: AI Domain to India's Greatest Need
- Spot: Wisdom for the Road Ahead
- Final Quiz - Your AI Journey
- Explain Lifelong Learning
- Words for the Journey Ahead
- Chapter 120 Complete
The Council Decision32 lessons· meets 37 requirements inUAEADEKCBSECISCE + states+7
- The Council Decision
- Ethics Frameworks
- Who Answers When AI Acts?
- AI Principles
- Principles Can Disagree
- Four Lenses on the Drone
- Principles Match
- Regulation Debate
- Governance Is More Than One Law
- Build the Proposal
- Sort the Challenges
- How Much Does Review Catch?
- Trace the Oversight Maths
- ChatGPT Shows Why Guardrails Matter
- Future Challenges
- Ethics Spotlight
- Ethics Quiz
- Case: AI at the Border
- AI Acts or Human Decides?
- Fill the Matrix: Grid Alerts
- Your Matrix Verdict
- Explain AI Governance
- From Council to Classroom
- How a Guideline Gets Adopted
- Who Else Does My AI Use Affect?
- Convenience, Community or Wellbeing?
- Draft Your School's AI-Use Guideline
- Guideline Check
- Build Your Own Matrix
- Hear Another Side
- Ethics Words
- Council Briefing Complete
- UAEEffectiveness of AI governance
- UAEJudge responsible AI use against governance frameworks
- UAEHuman–AI collaboration across sectors
- ADEKFacial recognition: privacy/safety/fairness tension
- ADEKStakeholder debate / ethical matrix
- ADEKDraft/commit to ethical-use guidelines
- ADEKAI governance/civic participation
- CBSEDemonstrate understanding of the fundamental principles of ethics in AI and the five pillars of AI Ethics; understand AI bias, its sources, real-world implications, and mitigation strategies; identify and apply strategies to promote fairness and transparency; recognise the significance of AI policies in promoting responsible, safe, ethical AI use (Unit 8: AI Ethics and Values).
- CISCE + statesIdentify applications and benefits of AI across commercial, industry, medical/healthcare, defence, banking, entertainment, transport, security and agriculture domains
- CISCE + statesApply an AI code of ethics — avoiding bias, ensuring privacy of users and their data, mitigating environmental impact, and evaluating the effects of designing technology that replicates human life
- IBEvaluate ethical implications of AI/ML systems, including bias, fairness, and transparency, as part of the machine learning content
- IBCredit and reference any AI-generated content used in coursework in the body of the text and in the bibliography, per IB academic integrity requirements
- IBUnderstand that any AI-generated work included, even in part, in a piece of assessment is not considered the student's own unless it is clearly credited in the text and referenced in the bibliography
- IBUse AI-generated content as an object of inquiry within Theory of Knowledge to examine how knowledge is produced and evaluated
- IBFollow the IB Academic Integrity policy's guidance on the ethical use of AI tools (per its dedicated appendix) when producing assessed work
- CSTA (US)Evaluate computational artifacts to maximize their beneficial effects and minimize harmful effects on society.
- CSTA (US)Debate laws and regulations that impact the development and use of software.
- CSTA (US)Debate what differences do or should exist between human and artificial intelligence, sentience, consciousness, rights, and responsibilities.
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the design, motivation, outcomes, and potential impacts of AI systems using ethical design criteria and/or ethical frameworks.
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the intended and unintended impacts of AI on society (e.g., deep fakes, job loss), including government, education, entertainment, culture, careers, and national security, while considering how these impacts may differ among diverse communities.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from constructing a map of a home, school, or neighborhood and understanding that 'the map is not the territory' (K-2), to demonstrating how different map styles (geometric vs. topological) capture different aspects of the world (3-5), to showing how a game board (tic-tac-toe, chess) can be represented as a plain-language description of squares, relationships, and piece positions (6-8), to describing how to represent a concept as a schema.org-style schema with superconcepts and inherited properties (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from demonstrating ways intelligent agents don't understand things the way people do, e.g. no frustration at repeated questions (K-2), to demonstrating what a 'broad AI'/general-AI system could do that current narrow AI cannot (3-5), to defining criteria for consciousness (self-awareness, personal history) and evaluating AI systems or fictional AI characters against them (6-8), to debating alternative perspectives on human vs. artificial intelligence, including the Turing test and artificial superintelligence (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from discussing what makes a system fair vs. unfair through a fair-distribution exercise (K-2), to evaluating whether an AI system meets the design criteria of transparency and explainability (3-5), to evaluating whether an AI system meets the design criteria of accountability and respect for privacy (6-8), to analyzing whether an AI system satisfies the full set of ethical design criteria: fairness, transparency, explainability, accountability, respect for privacy, and adherence to societal values (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from analyzing deepfake images/videos to identify the flaws that currently reveal them, e.g. thispersondoesnotexist.com (3-5), to critiquing uses of AI technology for surveillance or privacy violation, e.g. face recognition, license-plate trackers (6-8), to identifying appropriate areas for AI regulation and evaluating proposed legislation, e.g. autonomous-vehicle laws (9-12). K-2 is marked N/A.
- OECD–EC (Europe)Evaluate how well an AI use aligns with ethical principles and human values across trade-offs (Engage 7, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Assess the ethical implications and justify how an AI-assisted work maintains authenticity (Create 4, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Design improvements to an AI system based on technical constraints, ethics, and user needs to promote societal benefit (Shape 4, advanced).
- UNESCOIllustrate dilemmas around AI and identify the main reasons behind ethical conflicts that AI creators and companies face (e.g. data collection vs. ownership, profit vs. privacy, safety vs. speed of iteration) (CG4.1.2.1).
- UNESCOCarry out responsible AI practices in compliance with ethical principles and locally applicable regulations, iteratively building and following a personal checklist of lawful and responsible practices (e.g. protecting privacy/copyright, marking AI-generated content, avoiding disinformation, hate speech, or sensitive content about identifiable individuals) (CG4.2.2.1).
- UNESCOGain an age-appropriate understanding of personal, legal and ethical responsibilities when using AI and reinforce self-disciplined behaviours around sensitive personal data, copyrighted materials, deepfake/identifiable-person imagery, and the spread of misinformation, disinformation or hate speech (CG4.2.2.2).
- UNESCOApply an integral, ethics-by-design set of principles across the whole AI life cycle, e.g. simulating the role of a 'chief ethics officer' drafting a checklist of ethical criteria to audit each step of an AI system's design (CG4.3.2.1).
- UNESCOCultivate social responsibilities to uphold 'ethics by design' in regulations on AI — evaluating how selected local AI regulations align with ethics-by-design, and drafting proposals to modify or create new regulations governing ethics by design (CG4.3.2.3).
- UNESCONurture a self-identity as a co-creator and 'driver' of the next generation of AI technology, critically analyse the long-term impacts of AI systems on social relations and behaviours, and discuss how regulations/policies should adapt to enhance AI governance (e.g. by engaging with local/online communities of AI co-creators) (CG4.3.4.3).
- SingaporeLearn to use AI: use AI tools safely and responsibly.
- SingaporeGive examples of common personal and business tasks that can be performed well by AI: face recognition, voice recognition, image classification and spam filtering.
- Australia + NZStudents understand that generative AI tools should be used in ways that benefit all members of the school community and support wellbeing, not just individual convenience
- Australia + NZStudents learn that use of generative AI outputs (e.g. in assessable work) must remain open to challenge, retain human agency, and that the student/user remains accountable for decisions made with AI assistance (e.g. academic integrity implications)
The AI Radiologist20 lessons· meets 12 requirements inADEKCBSECISCE + statesAI4K12 (US)+2
- The AI Radiologist
- Medical AI Uses
- Why Isn't Accuracy Enough?
- Data Challenges
- One Early Signal Can Save a Life
- Success Match
- AI vs Doctors
- Trace a Screening Round
- Second Opinions Scale Well
- Sort the Roles
- What Share of Flags Are Real?
- Google Health: Lab Score vs Clinic Reality
- AI Breakthroughs
- Case and Lesson
- Healthcare Spotlight
- Healthcare Quiz
- Plan an Honest Project
- Explain Human-AI Care
- Healthcare Words
- Healthcare Champion!
- ADEKPython analysis of a people-rating/ranking dataset
- CBSEExplain the importance of data literacy in AI; identify data collection methods and applications; comprehend matrices and their operations; apply basic data analysis techniques (mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance); visualise data using line/bar/histogram/scatter/pie charts with matplotlib (Unit 5: Data Literacy - Data Collection to Data Analysis).
- CISCE + statesPerform matrix operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, transpose) and vector arithmetic/applications relevant to AI
- CISCE + statesApply Set Theory to data-table joins and relational algebra, and calculate simple statistical measures (mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation)
- CISCE + statesAnalyse data trends using mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation; apply probability basics including uniform, normal and binomial distributions
- CISCE + statesFormulate null and alternative hypotheses, identify Type I and Type II errors, and apply simple linear regression and correlation coefficient for prediction and relationship measurement
- CISCE + statesApply ML to real-world case studies: predictive maintenance from historical machine data, and credit-card/identity-theft fraud detection
- CISCE + statesApply ML to medical diagnosis by analysing medical imaging, genetic information and patient records
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from evaluating the ways a decision impacts different people differently (K-2), to evaluating how an AI technology, e.g. speech or facial recognition, has different effects on different demographic groups (3-5), to evaluating how various stakeholders' conflicting goals and values shape AI system design decisions (6-8), to explaining how the use of AI systems (e.g. health-risk algorithms) has led to documented disparate impacts on different groups (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Analyse how institutional deployment of AI can serve particular interests and amplify societal bias (Engage 6, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Deliberately assign parts of a task to human strengths versus AI capabilities (Manage 3, advanced).
- UNESCOGain evidence-based insight into the pervasive adoption of AI as infrastructure of social activity, and critique challenges AI poses to inclusion, justice and sustainability, including AI-amplified bias against women, marginalised ethnic groups and socio-economically disadvantaged people (CG4.3.1.1).
Smart Grid Hero22 lessons· meets 10 requirements inUAEADEKCISCE + statesCSTA (US)+2
- Smart Grid Hero
- AI Mitigation
- Why Can Cleaner Power Be Unstable?
- AI Adaptation
- Timing Can Cut Emissions
- Cause or Harm?
- Sector Match
- The Carbon Paradox
- Forecasts Become Climate Tools
- Footprint by Hand
- Sort the Impact
- Stabilize a Renewable Grid
- Read the Grid Model
- Protecting the Grid
- Grid Defence Check
- Google Uses AI to Cool Data Centers
- Climate Breakthroughs
- Climate Spotlight
- Climate Quiz
- Explain Climate Coordination
- Climate Words
- Climate Champion!
- UAEHuman–AI collaboration across sectors
- ADEKFootprint / resource cost of AI
- CISCE + statesIdentify applications and benefits of AI across commercial, industry, medical/healthcare, defence, banking, entertainment, transport, security and agriculture domains
- CSTA (US)Explain security issues that might lead to compromised computer programs.
- CSTA (US)Compare ways software developers protect devices and information from unauthorized access.
- CSTA (US)Design ways to minimize negative environmental impacts of AI and communicate those ways to others.
- CSTA (US)Students examine security implications and environmental impacts of AI systems within Systems & Security.
- OECD–EC (Europe)Analyse how design and deployment decisions affect an AI system's resource consumption (Engage 5, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Consider the ethical consequences of AI systems throughout their life-cycle, including environmental impact and societal impact such as platformisation of work and low-cost labelling labour (AI example 57, competence 4.4).
- SingaporeGive examples of common personal and business tasks that can be performed well by AI: face recognition, voice recognition, image classification and spam filtering.
Universal Translator20 lessons· meets 12 requirements inCISCE + statesIBCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)+1
- Universal Translator
- Transformer Power
- How Can One Model Handle So Many Tasks?
- Attention by Hand
- NLP Capabilities
- Context Is a Superpower
- NLP Task Match
- BERT vs GPT
- Meaning Beats Keywords
- Sort the Models
- Increase Language Understanding
- Long Context by Hand
- Google Translate Depends on Context
- NLP Applications
- Test a Translator
- NLP Spotlight
- NLP Quiz
- Explain Transformer Power
- NLP Words
- Language Models, Deeper
- CISCE + statesDescribe the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP) — text understanding, text generation, language translation, question answering/chatbots, dialogue systems — and internet search types (navigation, informational, transactional, investigative, voice)
- CISCE + statesApply Named Entity Recognition (NER) to classify names of people/organizations/locations in text, perform text summarization by extraction, and build a spam-email classifier using Machine Learning
- IBUse AI-generated content as an object of inquiry within Theory of Knowledge to examine how knowledge is produced and evaluated
- CSTA (US)Debate what differences do or should exist between human and artificial intelligence, sentience, consciousness, rights, and responsibilities.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from illustrating ambiguity via homophones/homonyms resolved by context (K-2), to illustrating pronoun reference ambiguity resolved by world knowledge (3-5), to illustrating prepositional-phrase attachment ambiguity resolved by meaning (6-8), to describing polysemy (multiple word senses) and how statistical NLP systems resolve it less reliably than human common sense (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from demonstrating how a computer produces different verb tense/agreement forms (K-2), to experimenting with a speech-to-text system's ability to resolve ambiguous words via context (3-5), to illustrating how word embeddings support reasoning about word meaning, e.g. outlier detection and analogy completion (6-8), to demonstrating how a small context-free grammar parses or generates simple sentences and where it falls short, e.g. subject-verb agreement (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from demonstrating what an intelligent assistant like Siri or Alexa can and cannot do (K-2), to demonstrating question types a search engine or assistant can and cannot answer (3-5), to describing NLP tasks such as summarization, sentiment analysis, question answering, and machine translation (6-8), to describing NLP approaches ranging from keyword/template matching to deep neural networks, and when each is appropriate (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from giving commonsense explanations of human behavior useful for a robot to know, e.g. choosing a plausible story ending (K-2), to explaining what everyday cultural and naive-physics knowledge a computer needs to understand a story (3-5), to explaining the naive-physics inference rules (mass, volume, conservation, forces) needed to solve a physics reasoning problem (6-8), to explaining the cultural, naive-physics, and folk-psychology knowledge needed to interpret a fable, fairytale, or Winograd-schema sentence (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from demonstrating ways intelligent agents don't understand things the way people do, e.g. no frustration at repeated questions (K-2), to demonstrating what a 'broad AI'/general-AI system could do that current narrow AI cannot (3-5), to defining criteria for consciousness (self-awareness, personal history) and evaluating AI systems or fictional AI characters against them (6-8), to debating alternative perspectives on human vs. artificial intelligence, including the Turing test and artificial superintelligence (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Explain how AI systems perform tasks without attributing human traits to them (Engage 2, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Assess an AI system's strengths and limitations considering its purpose and potential impacts (Shape 1, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)States that a foundational understanding of AI's technical functioning and the ability to recognise chances, limits and risks are indispensable for students to use AI responsibly and reflectively ('digital mündig'); calls on the Länder to integrate AI-related informatics competences and 'Bildung in der digitalen Welt' competences into curricula for all subjects and school types, without itself specifying discrete grade-level student outcomes.
AI Eyes20 lessons· meets 5 requirements inAI4K12 (US)OECD–EC (Europe)
- AI Eyes
- Vision Powers
- Why Can AI Miss What Humans See?
- Layers of Seeing
- Reuse the Layers
- Pixels Become Meaning
- Vision Match
- Two Ways to See
- Plan the Test
- Small Visual Shifts Matter
- Vision Sort
- Improve Vision Reliability
- Split the Score
- Google Photos Shows the Power of Tagging
- Future Vision
- Vision Detector
- Vision Quiz
- Explain Vision Robustness
- Vision Words
- Vision Tester
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from locating and identifying computer sensors such as cameras and microphones on everyday devices (K-2), to illustrating how computer sensing differs from human sensing (3-5), to giving examples of intelligent agents (e.g. self-driving cars) combining data from multiple sensors (6-8), to describing the limitations and advantages of specific sensor types such as cameras, microphones, radar, lidar, GPS, and accelerometers (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from demonstrating figure/ground segmentation in an image (K-2), to illustrating how occlusion changes the outlines of objects (3-5), to describing how edge detectors compose into more complex feature detectors such as letter/shape detectors (6-8), to demonstrating how perceptual reasoning at a higher abstraction level (objects, surfaces, boundaries) draws on lower levels (contours, edges, pixels) (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from describing what an intelligent agent must 'know' to make sense of a spoken question (K-2), to demonstrating how a text-to-speech/speech-recognition system resolves ambiguity using statistical context (3-5), to classifying an image scene type and describing the domain knowledge needed to understand it (6-8), to analyzing an online image dataset (e.g. ImageNet, Coco) to describe how statistical domain knowledge is derived for a computer vision system (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from discussing why intelligent agents need to understand languages other than English (K-2), to discussing why domain knowledge must be broad enough to cover accents, dialects, and musical genres (3-5), to describing how a vision system can exhibit cultural bias if it lacks knowledge of objects outside its creators' culture, e.g. non-US traffic signs (6-8), to describing technical difficulties (e.g. low-contrast faces, children's speech) in making perception systems work well for diverse groups (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Be aware that AI systems are typically developed in English-speaking contexts and can work less accurately in non-English contexts, e.g. machine translation between less-used language pairs (AI example 55, competence 2.5).
Learning by Doing20 lessons· meets 7 requirements inIBEngland + CambridgeCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)+1
- Learning by Doing
- RL Building Blocks
- Why Did the Agent Pick a Strange Shortcut?
- Explore or Exploit?
- Reward Signals Shape Strategy
- RL Timeline
- Two Ways to Learn
- Trying More Can Teach More
- Learning Sort
- Plan an RL Mini-Project
- Tune an RL Agent
- Exploration by Hand
- YouTube Recommendations Learn from Rewards
- RL in Action
- Loophole or Sound?
- RL Detector
- RL Quiz
- Explain RL Rewards
- RL Words
- RL, Project-Ready
- IBDistinguish supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning approaches to machine learning
- England + CambridgeShow understanding of Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning and the reasons for using each, including machine learning categories such as supervised and unsupervised learning
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the ability of models and simulations to test and support the refinement of hypotheses.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from constructing a map of a home, school, or neighborhood and understanding that 'the map is not the territory' (K-2), to demonstrating how different map styles (geometric vs. topological) capture different aspects of the world (3-5), to showing how a game board (tic-tac-toe, chess) can be represented as a plain-language description of squares, relationships, and piece positions (6-8), to describing how to represent a concept as a schema.org-style schema with superconcepts and inherited properties (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from describing and giving examples of how people vs. computers learn (K-2), to differentiating human flexible learning from computer pattern-finding/trial-and-error learning (3-5), to contrasting human learning characteristics with narrowly-defined machine learning problems (6-8), to defining supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning and giving human-learning analogues for each (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from explaining how reinforcement learning lets a computer learn from trial-and-error experience with a reward signal, e.g. a grid-world navigation demo (3-5), to explaining the difference between supervised learning (told the correct output) and reinforcement learning (told only how well it's doing) (6-8), to selecting the appropriate learning-algorithm family (supervised, unsupervised, or reinforcement) for a given reasoning problem (9-12). K-2 is marked N/A.
- Korea, Japan, HKClassify machine learning into supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning, and select the type appropriate to a given problem's characteristics.
The Wrong Prediction20 lessons· meets 3 requirements inOECD–EC (Europe)UNESCOAustralia + NZ
- The Wrong Prediction
- Safety Dimensions
- Why Can Safe-Looking AI Still Fail?
- Confident but Wrong
- Alignment Challenge
- Knowing Limits Is a Safety Skill
- Name the Failure
- Two Safety Paths
- Safe Failure Is Still Design
- Safety Sort
- Order a Safety Plan
- How Many Slip Through?
- Trace the Slip-Through
- Waymo Builds Safety Around Edge Cases
- Safety Research
- Safety Detector
- Safety Quiz
- Explain AI Safety Limits
- Safety Words
- Safety, Mapped
- OECD–EC (Europe)Recognise that AI applications directly interacting with humans and making decisions about their lives (e.g. CV-sorting, exam scoring) can be controversial even where other AI applications are not (AI example 63, competence 2.3).
- UNESCOEvaluate the consequences of institutional use of AI to make high-stakes decisions about people (e.g. profiling students, hiring, loan/assessment scoring) and understand why human accountability must not be ceded to AI in such decisions (CG4.2.1.2).
- Australia + NZStudents understand that generative AI tools should be used in ways that benefit all members of the school community and support wellbeing, not just individual convenience
Jobs Transformed23 lessons· meets 13 requirements inUAEADEKCSTA (US)AI4K12 (US)+3
- Jobs Transformed
- Four Impact Types
- Why Didn't Marcus Get Replaced?
- Skills That Matter
- Split the Job
- Work Can Shift Without Disappearing
- Risk Match
- Two Revolutions
- New Tools Create New Roles
- Revolution Sort
- Plan for Career Resilience
- Trace the Week
- LinkedIn Shows Emerging AI Roles
- Headline Check
- Case Files: Energy and Government
- Advise or Answer?
- Case Check
- Emerging Careers
- Future Detector
- Future Quiz
- Explain AI Career Change
- Work Words
- Future Ready!
- UAEJudge responsible AI use against governance frameworks
- UAEAI in economic development and social change
- ADEKCareers, future of work
- CSTA (US)Evaluate computational artifacts to maximize their beneficial effects and minimize harmful effects on society.
- CSTA (US)Predict how computational innovations that have revolutionized aspects of our culture might evolve.
- CSTA (US)Evaluate how AI use impacts an individual's decision making and other behavior.
- CSTA (US)Evaluate the intended and unintended impacts of AI on society (e.g., deep fakes, job loss), including government, education, entertainment, culture, careers, and national security, while considering how these impacts may differ among diverse communities.
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from identifying current uses of AI and how they have impacted society (K-2), to identifying how sectors of society such as manufacturing, retail, and healthcare are changing due to AI (3-5), to comparing AI-driven societal change to previous industrial revolutions (6-8), to predicting how a specific sector of society is likely to change in the short and intermediate term as a result of AI, referencing Amara's Law (9-12).
- AI4K12 (US)Progress from describing jobs that no longer exist due to past technology advances, e.g. farriers replaced by auto mechanics (K-2), to describing how a specific job will change due to AI/robotic technology, e.g. warehouse workers alongside robots (3-5), to predicting a new job type that might arise or an existing job that might change/disappear due to AI adoption (6-8), to investigating the specific skills needed for AI-enabled careers across the workforce, not just for programmers (9-12).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Deliberately assign parts of a task to human strengths versus AI capabilities (Manage 3, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Be aware that AI-based technologies can replace some human functions, potentially causing job losses or reallocations while also creating new jobs (AI example 60, competence 2.4).
- SingaporeLearn beyond AI: develop distinctly human capabilities and dispositions that AI cannot replicate.
- Korea, Japan, HKDeepen understanding and skills for realising diverse communication and using information systems and diverse (including large-scale/multimedia) data, and understand the development of information technology and social change including its effect on intellectual activity.
Art Partner20 lessons· meets 16 requirements inADEKCBSEIBCSTA (US)+5
- Art Partner
- AI Creates
- Who Is the Artist Here?
- How Generation Works
- Creativity Can Be a Dialogue
- Mechanism Match
- Diffusion, Step by Step
- Tool vs Creator
- Iteration Changes Imagination
- Creativity Sort
- The Curation Odds
- Keeper Odds by Hand
- Adobe Firefly: generation inside an editing workflow
- Art Debates
- Credit Your Project
- Claim Check
- Art Partner Check
- Explain Human-AI Art
- Creative Words
- Chapter Complete
- ADEKClassification vs generation, how generative AI is trained
- ADEKGAN/diffusion image generation, critique an image
- ADEKHuman/AI-generated art, ethics of generative tools
- CBSEExplain how Generative AI works; differentiate Generative AI and Discriminative AI and identify use cases; explore ethical, social, and legal concerns; gain hands-on experience with AI tools to generate creative/analytical outputs (images, text, video); use an LLM API to design and deploy a functional chatbot (Unit 7: Generative AI).
- IBCredit and reference any AI-generated content used in coursework in the body of the text and in the bibliography, per IB academic integrity requirements
- IBUnderstand that any AI-generated work included, even in part, in a piece of assessment is not considered the student's own unless it is clearly credited in the text and referenced in the bibliography
- IBFollow the IB Academic Integrity policy's guidance on the ethical use of AI tools (per its dedicated appendix) when producing assessed work
- CSTA (US)Evaluate how AI use impacts an individual's decision making and other behavior.
- OECD–EC (Europe)Purposefully integrate AI outputs with original ideas to build a comprehensive solution (Create 1, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Select and integrate outputs from multiple AI systems into a final product (Create 2, advanced).
- OECD–EC (Europe)Assess the ethical implications and justify how an AI-assisted work maintains authenticity (Create 4, advanced).
- UNESCOCarry out responsible AI practices in compliance with ethical principles and locally applicable regulations, iteratively building and following a personal checklist of lawful and responsible practices (e.g. protecting privacy/copyright, marking AI-generated content, avoiding disinformation, hate speech, or sensitive content about identifiable individuals) (CG4.2.2.1).
- UNESCOGain an age-appropriate understanding of personal, legal and ethical responsibilities when using AI and reinforce self-disciplined behaviours around sensitive personal data, copyrighted materials, deepfake/identifiable-person imagery, and the spread of misinformation, disinformation or hate speech (CG4.2.2.2).
- SingaporeLearn to use AI: use AI tools safely and responsibly.
- Korea, Japan, HKStudents should consciously develop an understanding of how generative AI works, how to apply it to learning, and how to critically evaluate/master its use in each subject area, combining "learning about AI itself", "learning how to use it", and "actively using it in subjects".
- Australia + NZStudents learn that use of generative AI outputs (e.g. in assessable work) must remain open to challenge, retain human agency, and that the student/user remains accountable for decisions made with AI assistance (e.g. academic integrity implications)
Quantum Promise20 lessons
- Quantum Promise
- Quantum World
- Why Isn't Quantum Already Everywhere?
- Quantum AI Tasks
- A Different Kind of Computing
- Bit vs Qubit
- Where Might Quantum Help?
- Then vs Now
- Specialized Beats Universal
- Era Sort
- Test Quantum Readiness
- Crossover by Hand
- IBM Quantum Makes Exploration Possible
- Quantum Research
- Quantum Detector
- Read the Claim
- Quantum Quiz
- Explain Quantum Limits
- Quantum Words
- Quantum Master!
Part of the course sequence; not cited as evidence for a specific requirement.
Your AI Path20 lessons· meets 2 requirements inADEKCBSE
- Your AI Path
- AI Careers
- Which Path Fits Best?
- Skills You Need
- There Is No Single AI Career
- Career Match
- Read the Job Ad
- Academic vs Industry
- Career Fit Is Multidimensional
- Path Sort
- Budget Your Practice Time
- Hours by Hand
- Kaggle Helps People Find Their Strengths
- Learning Journey
- Order a Project
- Future Detector
- Future Quiz
- Explain AI Path Choice
- Career Words
- Path Ready!
- ADEKCareers, future of work
- CBSEArticulate the demand for AI professionals and diverse career opportunities; identify requisite skills and tools for AI careers; understand roles/responsibilities of AI professionals across industries; evaluate own interests/skills to determine career pathways in AI (Unit 2: Unlocking your Future in AI).
Graduation Day9 lessons· meets 4 requirements inADEKUNESCOKorea, Japan, HKChina
- Graduation Day
- Covered, and Not Covered
- Covered or Not Covered?
- Honest or Overclaim?
- Final Quiz
- Capstone Exit Checklist
- Where This Can Lead
- Career Claim Check
- Course Complete
- ADEKCareers, future of work
- UNESCOArticulate personal and social responsibilities of citizens in an AI society — from both user and designer perspectives — including ensuring human control and accountability over every step of the AI life cycle (CG4.3.1.2).
- Korea, Japan, HKCultivate an attitude of participating proactively in, and contributing to the development of, the information society while creating new value through appropriate use of information and information technology and adherence to information morals (law, security).
- ChinaStudents understand the ethics and challenges of a smart/AI-driven society, strengthening information-security awareness, responsibility, and dialectical (balanced) views of AI
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