Handouts and Resources for Workshops:

The following handouts are drafts and will change frequently over the next few months as I iterate on them and change them based on feedback. If you have any questions or concerns or feedback (especially if you have been in a workshop) feel free to email me at my college email joshuaaaron@dcfe.ie or at my personal email using the mailto button here:

Handouts: Online Version (Markdown)

0 AI Technologies

1 Understanding LLMs In Context

2 Tool Limitations

3 LLMs & Teaching

4 and 5 to come! :)

Overly Heady (Post)Introduction:

AI tools are often framed as replacing various aspects of the Learning → Teaching → Creating → Adapting cycle. For our purposes I want to highlight these tools in terms of how I relate to them as a teacher, how I see my students relate to them, and how I see management push or pull in directions around them at various levels. In other words, these are meant to be material that has an opinion: very little of these texts could be described as "neutral." Instead, they hopefully provide a frame through which to look at a rapidly changing technological environment.

These handouts were created to accomplish a few goals, all in the context of a school containing four groups:

1. Students

2. Teachers

3. Support Staff

4. Management/Leadership

Links Worth Exploring (Under Construction):

A more Technical Visual Treatment of Neural Networks and LLMs:

https://www.3blue1brown.com/topics/neural-networks

Articles and Papers

Note: I do not always agree with these papers and articles, but they have helpful components.

• https://deepmind.google/blog/facts-grounding-a-new-benchmark-for-evaluating-the-factuality-of-large-language-models/

• https://research.google/blog/learn-your-way-reimagining-textbooks-with-generative-ai/

• https://www.learningfromexamples.com/p/what-academics-get-wrong

Resources from LLM Providers

• https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/google-ai-literacy-tools-2025/