LLMs Unplugged at Brimbank Tech School
Last Friday we partnered with Brimbank Tech School at VU Sunshine Campus for Lifting the Veil—a full-day hands-on AI workshop for educators.
Over 50 teachers and other educational professionals from across the Brimbank region came along, and we spent the day working through AI fundamentals, the LLMs Unplugged hands-on activity, practical applications of machine learning in education, and strategies for supporting schools through the changes (and challenges) that AI is bringing.
The highlight—as usual—was the hands-on model building. There’s something about actually counting tokens, filling in probability grids and then rolling dice to generate text that makes the whole thing click in a way that slides alone never quite manage.
It was a great day—a real pleasure to share these materials with such an engaged group of educators, and to hear how they’re thinking about bringing AI literacy into their classrooms. Thanks to the Brimbank Tech School team for making it happen.
If you’re involved with a group of teachers who’d like to run a similar workshop, do get in touch.