Yesterday, Diverso Lab visited the CEIP Olivar de Quinto primary school in Dos Hermanas to conduct research with 5th-grade students on how artificial intelligence systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) work.
Specifically, ETSII student Elena Tomás Vela demonstrated the “Glass Parrot” tool, an application she developed as part of her Master’s Thesis, supervised by professors Francisco José Domínguez Mayo and Jesús Moreno León. Following the demonstration, the students used Glass Parrot to create their own language models, working on building the training dataset and observing the impact of their decisions on the outputs generated by the model.
Throughout the session, we gained tangible familiarity with concepts such as model bias, their stochastic nature, and the critical importance of training data on their performance. Finally, the students completed a survey on the tool’s usability, which will help us improve various aspects of its interface.
Glass Parrot is designed to help learners of all ages understand how the large language models powering today’s most popular AI assistants work. Therefore, as part of Elena’s Master’s Thesis, next week we will continue our research with different target populations, including first-year Philology students and final-year Computer Science students. This will allow us to assess differences in perceived ease of use among learners of varying ages and profiles.
We would like to thank Patricia Flor, a teacher at CEIP Olivar de Quinto, and all the 5th-grade students who participated in the workshop for their enthusiasm and for the wonderful morning we spent together. We look forward to sharing Glass Parrot with the entire educational community very soon.