Use Next Token in class

Show this week's question

Put “This week's question” on the screen and read it together. It gives everyone a feel for what the AI records added this week are about.

Take the weekly quiz in class mode

1. On the latest quiz page, open “Class mode” and press “Create a class”.
2. Read out the 6-character class code on the screen. Students open next-token.net/en/quiz on their phones and type the code. They never type a name: the server picks a random nickname.
3. When everyone is done, look at the scoreboard and each question's right-answer rate together, then press “Close the class”.

Open the record behind the hardest question

Pick the question with the lowest right-answer rate and use “See the record” under its explanation to read the record it came from.

For every day: put “Which came first?” (five questions a day) or “On this day” on the screen — three minutes is enough.

Read the plan, print the worksheets

Read this lesson's plan in the teacher kits and print the Part 1 worksheets. The answer key is at the end of the worksheet pack.

Warm-up — write a first guess

Show the question in the lesson title. Students write their own guess in box 1 of the worksheet. Don't give the answer yet.

Explore — explanation, experiment, figure

Read the explanation together (about 8 min), then do the experiment and note what you saw in box 2 (about 12 min). Go over the figure once more (about 5 min).

Check — three quiz questions

Students try the three questions on the worksheet first, then you mark them together with the quiz on the lesson page and read the explanations.

Wrap-up — today in one line

Read “today in one line” together. Students rewrite it in their own words in the last box.

To use another lesson, pick a part and a DAY in the teacher kits. All 46 lessons open now have a plan and a worksheet. Lesson kits for teachers

How does AI talk?

Do DAY 01 and DAY 02 with their worksheets. With the time left, play “Today's Next Token”: guess the next word a public AI model picked, and feel how AI writes one word at a time.

How we got here

Put up the map poster. Each group picks one line (axis), reads the records of three of its stations and presents them in a minute. Finish with DAY 14 (2017: the Transformer).

What to watch out for

After DAY 42 (Fake news), each student writes one sentence about AI history in “Is it true?” and sees whether its years, dates and numbers match the record. It's rule-based, uses no AI, and doesn't keep the sentence.

Pulling it together

Take the weekly quiz together in class mode. Then each student picks a word from “AI Words” and explains it to a classmate in one minute. The part reviews help look back over the four weeks.