In 2024, I submitted a video to the UNSW Scientia Education Academy Exemplary Teaching Practice Awards (category: "Using AI in teaching and assessment") describing how I integrated Large Language Models into two Australian War College courses - ZEIT8205 Fundamentals of Surveillance Technologies and ZEIT8213 Communication and Information Systems.

The challenge was specific: my

Across several courses and institutions, I have used structured discussion forums as a core learning activity where students engage with open-ended questions, post their reasoning, and critically respond to their peers' contributions.

In Matrix Theory (KoreaTech), a graduate course for engineering students, discussion prompts asked students to connect abstract concepts to

Together with students, I designed an educational robotics platform - originally called KuBots, now Plato Pod - where students learn programming by writing code that controls physical robots on a shared arena. The pedagogical idea is simple: when your code has a bug, the robot does the wrong thing in front of you, and no amount of copy-pasting from an LLM fixes that. Students have to