AI Log speaks

Talking about two of my favorite educational technologies, the crayon and the ruler at the Institute for Law Teaching & Learning.

The best essays on AI Log started as in-person talks, interactive engagements rather than Ted Talk-style lectures or my talking head on Zoom. I use physical objects and images to illustrate what I am saying, not PowerPoint slides crowded with words. No ideas but in things, as the poet says.

Talking with colleagues at the Explorance French Europe Summit.

Here are some recent talks:

• On Beyond Chatbots: Purpose-built AI Tools for Solving Academic Problems at the 2025-2026 AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.

• Let’s Confabulate at Leepfrog Technologies, HQ in Iowa City.

• What’s 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. An essay drawn from the talk is here.

• What is an LLM doing in my classroom? at the 2024-2025 AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.

Click the image or this link for a one-minute clip from The Boring Revolution.

• The Boring Revolution: How AI Will Change Education and the Workplace, and Why You Might Not Even Notice at Explorance World in Montreal. You can watch the talk, including the Q&A, on YouTube here. I gave updated versions of the talk at the Explorance French Europe Summit and Explorance Europe Summit. Notes and image credits are 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 “promiscuous coupling of perception and cognition.” This is now my favorite way to describe how humans learn!

If you want a general sense of how I talk with people about AI, you can hear me on this episode of My Edtech Life talking with Fonz Mendoza. Lance Eaton featured a conversation we had on his Substack AI + Education = Simplified.

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