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Watch the Visionaries Among Us talk
ANU TV has published the video of my Visionaries Among Us Showcase talk, in which a hall of about 360 people runs a language model by show of hands.
The classroom request behind search sheets
Queensland teacher Samantha Ephraims ran LLMs Unplugged with primary students and 40 teachers, and the space problem she hit became search sheets.
Search sheets for group text generation
Search sheets let a group generate text together, using one printed page per participant. Four ready-to-print sets are on the tools page.
Mandarin Chinese support for widgets and booklets
The interactive widgets and the booklet generator now segment Mandarin Chinese into words, not just characters. Thanks to Zhang Xilian for the nudge.
LLMs Unplugged at the ACDICT L&T Forum
Slides and worksheets for my ACDICT Learning & Teaching Forum session, plus a self-guided path for anyone joining online.
Yoda, ELIZA, and a Year 7 bigram model
A pre-service teacher took LLMs Unplugged into a lower-SES Year 7/8 classroom, swapped the children's book for a Yoda monologue, and added a 1966 chatbot for contrast
LLMs Unplugged for political scientists
Running the opening session at the 3rd APSA Workshop on Quantitative Methods at ANU, for a room of political and social science researchers
How AI writes stories at Duffy Primary
Taking LLMs Unplugged into a Year 5 classroom at Duffy Primary School, with the ACT Academy of Future Skills
Generating the cutout palette
The cutout palette is now algorithmically generated, with 30 perceptually distinct colours instead of 14 hand-picked ones.
Cutouts get a glow-up
A revamped cutouts variant of the Training and Generation lessons, with crisper print materials and a generation mechanic that does weighted sampling for free.
LLMs Unplugged is TQI-accredited
The ACT Teacher Quality Institute has accredited LLMs Unplugged as a two-hour professional learning program
Luritja resampled
Running LLMs Unplugged at the Tjabal Centre Autumn School with Luritja poet Matt Heffernan, using his poem Ngurrparringu as the training text
Open-enrolment workshops in May and June
Two upcoming hands-on LLMs Unplugged workshops at ANU, open to everyone
Teaching AI literacy with paper and dice
How teachers can use LLMs Unplugged to teach probabilistic text generation without needing students to use an online AI service.
Mapping LLMs Unplugged to the Australian Curriculum
An example of how LLMs Unplugged activities align with the Australian Curriculum for Year 5/6.
LLMs Unplugged for ACT teachers
A hands-on workshop for ACT educators at the Hedley Beare Centre on 18 March
LLMs Unplugged at ICTENSW DigiTLL
Presenting "LLMs Unplugged" at the ICTENSW DigiTLL Conference in North Sydney on 15 March
Designing the LLMs Unplugged brand mark
The new brand mark encodes GPT-3 token IDs into visual dot patterns --- here's how it works.
LLMs Unplugged at Brimbank Tech School
A hands-on AI workshop for educators at VU Sunshine Campus with Brimbank Tech School
LLMs Unplugged: the pitch to teachers
How do we build the confidence to have discussions about LLMs and AI in our classrooms?
ACT Academy of Future Skills workshop
Working through LLMs Unplugged with ACT specialty STEM teachers
Website launch
The LLMs Unplugged website is now live.