Our enterprising technology teacher did build a personalised response system comprising 30 boxes connected by wires back to his desk and an array of lights. Very cool.

I never had the pleasure of using a language lab. EdTech in my school was one teletype terminal for the school where we typed programs in FORTRAN then the teacher put the paper tape in the post and we received the printed error messages a week later (yes, really).

Fascinating that the technology is so different but the rhetoric is just the same.

That's how I learned to code - I learned the George 4 language on a teaching machine before I had ever seen or used a computer.

Could you try it now with The Jabberwocky. :-) Many thanks for your informative posts.

Yes, an excellent resource. As for the other profile, I don't know, which is why I didn't include it.

Building well-conceived tools for students on an open foundation model with user data remaining within the institution is a good thing. Training a large language model at huge cost for each state isn't.

Is the EU now so fragmented that each member country feels the need for its own LLM to protect national security?