Teaching is a bit like herding cats—if you can get half of them to sit still for five minutes, you’re already winning!
effective strategy is to rebranding “office hours” to something more approachable like “student hours” and ensuring they coincide with assignment deadlines.
Often, the students aren't actually bored! They just don't have the time or energy for the topic that I do.
It seems as though most of the students had been clickbaited by my mention of AI in the title, which is more a callout for classical artificial intelligence than it is for the modern machine-learning approaches.
