David Nelson
thedavenelson.bsky.social
David Nelson
@thedavenelson.bsky.social
Associate Director at Purdue's Center for Instructional Excellence. I share resources about teaching, SoTL, & the impact of AI on learning.
That Isaac Hayes groove with boost during the chorus!!
October 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Repression breeds resistance.
October 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Bear the F Down!!!
October 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I also brought them up multiple times, to multiple students in class and in reflection feedback.
October 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I was surprisingly disappointed (after I library reserved and even bought landmark SciFi books on AI for suggested readings in my AI in Teaching and Learning Course) when not a single student bothered with Murderbot, Moon is a Harsh Mistress or others. Need to assign them next time. :(
October 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
How well does it work when prompted only to assess or evaluate the root cause? Is tuning or exemplar code helpful at all? Are the edge cases simply so varied that an LLM as root causal evaluator is doomed to fail?
October 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Try Copilot 365 if that is not sufficiently inaccurate or opaque for you. That $30/user/month fee pays for itself when your goal is to project existential dread into rage against a machine. Bonus points - it chides you for expletive use in emails :)
September 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Balatro is the answer
September 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
what did it sound like?
September 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So, we can just keep on thinking Isak and Wirtz just wont work out for some reason, right???
September 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Love it. But I think you mispelled "Quadruple"
August 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
1) AI claims fast learning; but learning is slow
2) Inauthentic or irrelevant work -> students outsourcing thinking work
3) We have MUCH less institutional infrastructure conveying value, authenticity and utility of what we teach
4) Chatbots do not care if we learn
5) AI detectors are horrid judges
August 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Our five big assumptions that shaped the week /
August 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
August 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Reminds me of the specter of internet throttling before net neutrality. Don’t want to pay us extra for our tech? Fine. You just might not like what you get. No transparency, varying quality of an information commodity on every use. I’d guess an upswing in paid subs.
August 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Likely Microsoft wants to gain benefits of Chat but not replace any of its own software that could then hinder enterprise level negotiations
August 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM