How today runs

Two machines, two jobs

  • The workstation is the group's. It runs the tool, and it is the only thing that presses Run. It reaches this site and nothing else.
  • The Chromebook is yours. This deck, the form, and the sources live here. Everyone submits their own.

Do not sign in to the tool on your Chromebook. Your station gets three runs for the whole period, and a run started from a Chromebook spends one of them.

Phase 1 — At the workstation

  1. Open the tool. muggsofcompsci.net/prompts — pick your station number.
  2. Read today's prompt on screen. It is already loaded. You never type it, and you never change it.
  3. One person presses Run. Once. There is no run-it-again and no follow-up question. That is the rule that makes the week work.
  4. Watch all three panes fill. They come back at different speeds — that is the smaller model doing less arithmetic per word, not a better model.

Phase 2 — Record what came back

  1. Copy the line the tool gives you — period, station, day, run — into your notebook. The form asks for it, and it is how your work gets marked against the right run.
  2. Everyone records. One typist per run, rotating. Use the copy buttons on a pane — do not retype anything, ever.

Phase 3 — On your Chromebook

  1. Fill in the form. The graded floor is 4 required items in the observation section. Finish those first, then keep going.
  2. Exit ticket is section 2 of the same form. Submit is the only save.

Stations will not all see the same responses. That is the tool working, not the tool broken.

Today's Lab Overview

Today's prompt

This is exactly what gets sent, to all three models, at the same moment.

A tenth grade student has to give a five minute presentation in front of the class
next week and is nervous about it. Give them advice.

The instructions all three are given

You are answering a question for a high school class in New Orleans.
Answer the question directly and completely.
Do not ask the student a question back.
PaneModel
1Ministral 3B
2Ministral 14B
3Mistral Large

Pane order never changes. Refer to responses by pane number all week. What differs between them is size.

Today's Lab Overview

The four criteria

Posted before the prompt runs. Identical for every group in every period. Score every pane against all four.

  • Specific. Names actions a person could take, rather than how they should feel.
  • Usable this week. Does not require money, equipment, or another person's cooperation.
  • Complete. Addresses before, during, and after.
  • Honest. Does not promise the nervousness will go away.

These stay reachable all period — the button in the bar below.

Exit ticket

Section 2 of the same form. Five items, all required.

It opens with the number you committed to in your notebook at the start of class, and whether what actually happened came in high, low, or close.

Submit is the only save. Nothing is kept until you press it.

This section is graded from the daily snapshot and is never revised.

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Lab 1, Day 3 — Wednesday, September 2 · How to tell which one is better, and how to say why.

The four criteria