Quick answer: AI Quest is a COPPA-compliant, FERPA-aware gamified curriculum for US K-12 AI literacy. Free for students; school accounts enable teacher dashboards at $2/student/year or $500/classroom flat. Aligned with ISTE Standards and most state Departments of Education's AI literacy guidance (New York, California, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia).

Why AI literacy is a US curriculum priority

The US Department of Education's 2023 AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning report set expectations for AI in K-12 classrooms. State-level guidance has followed: California Department of Education's AI guidance, Ohio's AI policy toolkit for schools, North Carolina AI Implementation Guide, Virginia DOE AI guidelines, New York State Education Department guidance. Many districts from NYC DOE to LAUSD to Houston ISD have their own policies. ISTE standards and CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards both incorporate AI.

What AI Quest teaches

What AI is (and isn't) — patterns, probability, training data
Bias, fairness, and dataset curation
Prompting: how to talk to a model to get useful output
Safety: hallucinations, privacy, when to double-check
Responsible use: academic integrity, citation, creative commons
Applied projects: design a chatbot, evaluate an image classifier, critique a recommendation

Student data privacy

COPPA (15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506): verifiable parental consent required for under-13 accounts. AI Quest supports anonymous progression so under-13 students can play without personal data.
FERPA: when deployed under district contract, AI Quest operates under the school-official exception with the standard clauses districts expect.
Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA) — Californiaand equivalent state laws in 40+ states prohibit targeted advertising to students and sale of student data. AI Quest meets these standards by default.
PPRA: Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment — surveys, certain information collection.
Signed DPAs: data processing addenda are available via the iKeepSafe and Student Data Privacy Consortium templates commonly adopted by US districts.

How teachers deploy AI Quest

Elementary (grades 3–5): first 10 levels as an “intro to machines that learn” unit, integrated into digital-citizenship lessons.
Middle school (6–8): full first arc as a six-week CS/STEM elective.
High school (9–12): AI Quest plus real-world projects; ties into AP Computer Science Principles big idea on Global Impact.
After-school / summer: free play with Chromebook login; teacher dashboard optional.

US pricing

Students: free to play
Teacher accounts with dashboard: free for individual teachers; $500/classroom flat for school deployment
District: $2/student/year with SSO, rostering via Clever/ClassLink, and roll-up reporting
Professional development: $200/teacher/year

Comparables

Code.org: free, broad CS curriculum; has AI units
Elements of AI (University of Helsinki): free; strong conceptual intro
AI4K12 Initiative: standards body, not a curriculum product
MIT Day of AI: open curriculum for one-day deployments
Minecraft Education (AI for Good/AI Foundations): paid via Microsoft Education licensing

Case sketch

A suburban New Jersey middle school deploys AI Quest to 600 students across 25 sections in a six-week rotation. Teacher dashboards surface the top 10% and bottom 10% of concept mastery; targeted interventions for the bottom group bring mastery to parity by week 5. A Texas charter network rolls out AI Quest to 12 campuses with SSO via Clever.

Ecosystem

Older learners continuing into professional prompt engineering use PromptQuest; district procurement and privacy assessments supported by GeraCompliance; professional development courses listed on GeraLearn. A Gera Prime Family tier covers home-use access for multiple children.

Sources

US Department of Education — AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning (2023)
FTC — COPPA Rule compliance guide
US DOE — FERPA for school officials
ISTE Standards for Students and Educators
State DOE AI guidance documents (CA, NY, OH, NC, VA)

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