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News could be allowed to use an LLM to generate a presentation that
is based on their own data.

How the chip sector
is gearing up for new wAys to leArn one further educatIon
the AI revolution
Aside from assessment, LLMs look set to provide pupils and stu-
dents with new ways to learn. Webb says they can help students college Is usIng chatgpt
How ISC2 aims
to overcome get past a blank page by providing ideas on how to start a piece to enable englIsh lIterature
cyber barriers of writing, and they are often good at simplifying complex text.
There are more creative options, too. One further educa- students to “IntervIew”
Editor’s comment tion college told a recent Jisc event that it’s using ChatGPT to
let English literature students “interview” Lady Macbeth, while lady macbeth

Buyer’s guide another asks students to write prompts for AI image generator
to the future of Midjourney, which works better with concise and accurately writ-
business software
ten instructions.
Michael Bennett, director of the education curriculum at the
Harnessing large
language models Institute for Experiential AI at Boston’s Northeastern University,
for education says LLMs may be particularly useful for students needing to work
iteratively, such as providing feedback when needed on writing a
large amount of computer code over several months. MADEDEE/ADOBE
More generally, some of the university’s instructors get students
to use ChatGPT 3 (which, unlike version 4, is free to use) to gen-
erate ideas or initial drafts of material. Designing and refining
prompts can act as “a source of quickening for their thoughts”,
says Bennett, adding: “LLMs become a kind of warm-up for
the assignments, as opposed as a threat to the integrity of the
education process.”
But he warns that some students, both at universities and at
schools, are overly trusting of LLM output based on previous

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