Workshop engagement reaches an inflection point at the first shareback of newly generated text, after which participant questions about LLMs become more incisive¶
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q2 i? In delivered workshops the room's engagement visibly shifts after groups share their generated text, and the questions participants ask about LLMs become more incisive from that point onward. → Ben Swift 2026
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Ben Swift 2026¶
Ben Swift. (2026). LLMs Unplugged: Teaching Resources for a ChatGPT World. 28th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2026). https://doi.org/10.1145/3786228.3786237
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Practitioner observation across repeated deliveries of the Fundamentals lessons at the Australian National University. The author reports “there is an inflection point after the first “shareback” of the newly-generated text” and that questions become more incisive from that point.
"there is an inflection point after the first “shareback” of the newly-generated text. TheTraininglesson is necessary set-up, but the room really starts to buzz duringGenerationwhen we go around the room and people get to share what came out of their new model"
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Workshop engagement reaches an inflection point at the first shareback of newly generated text, after which participant questions about LLMs become more incisive |
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Workshop engagement reaches an inflection point at the first shareback of newly generated text, after which participant questions about LLMs become more incisive |
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