Laaaaaaarge Language Models
Old McDonald Had a Data Farm (AI, AI, & You)
The Deep Reader Who Cried (Maryanne) Wolf
The Conversation
College? I thought you said "Collage."
100

It's raining cats and _______ 

dogs

100

Vantage Data Centers is developing "Lighthouse," a $15 billion hyperscale AI data center in this town 27 miles north of Milwaukee.

Port Washington

100

Wolf argues that ____ and ______ are cultural inventions. 

Reading and Writing

100

A concise restatement of another's work.

Summary

100

This free service on the first floor of Curtin Hall offers one on one support with writing assignment. 

The Writing Center

200

Large language models generally use a special type of neural network that accounts for the T in ChatGPT

Transformer

200

Emily Bender describes AI chatbots as "stochastic parrots"—meaning they are just mimicking speech and language by... 

predicting the next most likely word in a sequence based on statistical probabilities.

200

This emerged in humans as we began to read and write.

The reading brain circuit. 

200
"Joining the conversation" in the Panther Guide is a metaphor for this.

Understanding how knowledge is created and challenged in different subject areas through reading, writing, and research.  

200

The Segment One Project is due on this date.

October 8, 2026

300

If a an LLM is an orchestra, this would be the conductor.

Neural network

300

Researchers at Georgia Tech define AI literacy as “a set of ______ that enables individuals to critically evaluate AI technologies.

competencies

300

This motoric activity helps retain and remember what you're reading. 

Taking notes or writing
300

Instead of focusing on "plot action" or what a reading is "about," critical readers in college should be able to track this.

authorial action

300

This former UWM student starred in The Lighthouse (2019), Spiderman (2001), and voiced the scarred Moorish Idol fish Gill in Finding Nemo (2003).

Willem Dafoe.

400

Detailed vector representations of words that take into account each word’s meanings and relationships with other words

Word Embeddings 

400

John Warner sees the opportunity of AI to remind us to think about writing as a _____ and not a product. 

process


400

This process is one of the greatest disruptions to deep reading.

Skimming

400

Presents, explains, considers,  proposes, contends, maintains, asserts, declares, insists, proves, claims, suggests, offers, determines 

These are all an example of THIS recommended feature in summary writing or tracking annotations.


Strong verbs

400

This campus resource offers medical services as well as free mental health counselling for all students.

SHAW (Student Health and Wellness Center)

500

GenAI systems know how to fill in the blank of "it's raining cats and ____" because it's doing this process and not magic. 

Probabilistic Sequence Prediction

500

Anthropic Researcher Evan Hubinger said "I personally think it is >10% within the next decade." He was referring to the likelihood that AI will cause ...

Human extinction

500

Without deep reading, we lose these two "best thoughts."

The author's and our own.

500

Three types of annotations with different functions that promote critical reading.

Tracking, restatement, reaction.

500

Your English 101 instructor's first name.

Tim