AI Log speaks

The best essays on AI Log started as invited talks.

Talking about two of my favorite educational technologies (the thing in my left hand is a ruler) and how they relate to AI at the Institute for Law Teaching & Learning.

As I explain in this essay, I left a full time job as a bureaucrat at the end of 2024 to write, teach, and speak about AI in education. I hope to contribute in small ways to turning what looks to many like the end of education as we know it into opportunities to improve institutions and systems of learning.

Most of my paid appearances are in-person, interactive engagements rather than Ted Talk-style lectures or my talking head on Zoom. Even my keynotes at large conferences involve quite a bit of audience participation. The speaking I do is essential to my thinking and writing.

Here are some recent talks:

• What is an LLM doing in my classroom? at the 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.

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. 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 “promiscuous coupling of perception and cognition.” This is now my favorite way to describe how humans learn!

• I had a blast on this episode of My Edtech Life talking with Fonz Mendoza and Lance Eaton gave the great honor of featuring a conversation we had for for

  AI + Education = Simplified
  .

I can provide enthusiastic references for any of these talks upon request.

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.

Contact me using this link me or email me at rob (dot) nelson (at) hey (dot) com.¹

1. Do we still need to do this?