Recent Reading About LLMs

I’m co-teaching a lesson for the Carpentries next week about the impact of LLMs on teaching. Here are a few things I’ve been reading to prepare: Barba2026 Lorena A. Barba and Laura Stegner: “The Conversational Exam: A Scalable Assessment Design for the AI Era”. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10691, 2026. Conversational exam (live coding + explanation in small groups) restores assessment validity against generative AI cheating; 58 students examined in 2 days; combines authentic practice with inherent validity. Bielaczyc1995 Katerine Bielaczyc, Peter L. Pirolli, and Ann L. Brown: “Training in Self-Explanation and Self-Regulation Strategies: Investigating the Effects of Knowledge Acquisition Activities on Problem Solving.” Cognition and Instruction. 13(6), 1995. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci1302_3. Training study (24 novice programmers) showing self-explanation and self-regulation strategy training causally improves programming task performance; instructional group showed significantly…