AI Log speaks
The best essays on AI Log started as invited talks.
Most of my paid appearances are in-person, interactive engagements rather than Ted Talk-style lectures or conferences on Zoom. Even my keynotes at large conferences involve quite a bit of dialogue between me and the audience, and conversation among the audience members.
Here are some recent talks:
What is an LLM doing in my classroom? at the AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.
Letβs Confabulate at Leepfrog Technologies, HQ in Iowa City.
Whatβs so Critical about Critical AI? at the Institute for Law Teaching & Learning Spring Conference in Philadelphia.
A Phaedrus Moment: If Socrates was wrong, does that make LLMs all right? at Perusall Exchange. Notes and image credits are here.
The Boring Revolution: How AI Will Change Education and the Workplace, and Why You Might Not Even Notice at Explorance World in Montreal. Notes and image credits are here. You can watch the talk, including the Q&A, on YouTube here.
I was invited to the Midwest Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship in Kansas City, Missouri, where I appeared on a panel about AI in education with a filmmaker and a lawyer. I was also part of a workshop on Perceptual Learning led by anthropologist Shannon Jackson, who argued we should think of human learning as a βpromiscuous coupling of perception and cognition.β This is now my favorite way to describe how humans learn differently from machines!
I had a blast on this episode of My Edtech Life talking with Fonz Mendoza.
Visit my website to book me for your next education conference, podcast, or faculty workshop, or to arrange for me to talk with you and your organization.
This is the best way to contact me but you can also email me at rob (dot) nelson (at) hey (dot) com. I can provide enthusiastic references upon request.