David Coad, PhD

Check out my latest substack blog post for a behind the scenes look at my qualitative interview research and why its a great opportunity to harness LISTENING for the greater good.

I get to present the mulitmodal award and honorable mentions at the English Department Award Ceremony tonight! Exciting! This year's winners were lit! What an honor to be encouraging and rewarding strong student work!

Quarter system here--I still have 2.5 weeks left. I'm already distracting myself trying to plan what I'm going to do when it's over!

Part of the reason I have developed such a contempt for AIbros like this man and the ecology of techbros who uncritically push AI is the absolute arrogance—they have never set foot in a classroom, or studied pedagogy yet they claim to know better than teachers.

Read my new substack!
open.substack.com/pub/davidcoa...

OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices

This is WILD.
Goodbye Apple, Hello OpenAI.
Goodbye privacy, Hello, seemless boundary crossing.
Goodbye Friends, Hello Machines? Hopefully not.

lol. So true. This is definitely a big/interesting/concerning move for GAI to become more PHYSICALLY integrated into our lives...and for OpenAI to overtake Apple.

I just read the #4C26 CFP...please note they are explcitly asking us to NOT write to the theme this year, but just to the rubric. So different!!!

Students Think They’re Terrible Writers—and Gen AI is Making It Worse And What We Can Do About It

Through my 15 years of teaching college writing, students have always told me they are terrible writers. But now, Gen AI makes them think they're even worse. Read my reflections and what we can do about it here. davidcoad.substack.com/p/students-t...

David Coad | Substack I'm a writing professor at Santa Clara University. I write about digital technologies in education, what it's like to teach writing, active/social/theatrical forms of learning, and about insights from...

Peer Review is only useful for the person getting feedback? WRONG! Similarly, teaching observations benefit the observer as well. My new substack post explains what I took from a recent teaching observation, and gives my hot take on why the word "hearing" is better than "listening"!

Oh thank you! I've actually been a lecturer at SCU for the past 4 years, and I'm a super bronco. So glad to be placed in this new position. Best of luck to you this spring quarter!

OpenAI just gave itself wiggle room on safety if rivals release 'high-risk' models OpenAI says it could adjust its AI safety policy if a rival ships a high-risk model without safeguards. Critics say it's backing off key commitments.

OpenAI says it could adjust its AI safety policy if a rival ships a high-risk model without safeguards. Critics say it's backing off key commitments.

A person is more than their opinions. Love them, don’t hate.

Let’s tone down the feisty comments a little bit.

Yo, folks, I can disagree with the idea of totally refusing GAI while also accepting many useful criticisms of it and respecting and valuing those who refuse.

One of the best/funniest aspects of #4C25, realizing I was someone’s “uncle advisor” because her advisor studied under my adviser. Lol!

2025 CCCC Chair’s Address Transcript Sano-Franchini Timely, (Un)Disciplinary, and Solutions-Oriented: Remembering and Enacting Abundance in These Times When We Just Have to Keep Going Jennifer Sano-Franchini West Virginia University [SLIDE] Part 1. T...

I've had a bunch of people ask me for access to my #4C25 Chair's Address transcript, so after taking a bit of time to clean it up, I've made it available, here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #teamrhetoric #rhetcomp #techcomm @ncte.org

Glad to be home from #4C25. Spending some time reflecting on what I learned during the conference and doing some research to spark new interests!

lol did I say tweets? I mean bskys

Thanks for your tweets. Hard to find folks like us … academics who go to church, & who engage in deep inquiry about academic matters and church/spirituality. And yes, doubts etc are universal experiences in religious life. :)

Thank you for articulating well what was hard for me :)

Same here!

I feel like we kinda crushed it yall! #4C25 b-skying unlocked. Boom. Amazing effort everyone!!!

Finally made it back to California after #4C25! Thank you EVERYONE, especially @jsanofranchini.bsky.social , @ncte.org , and everyone who worked behind the scenes to make it happen! I’m *cheering* all of you on!!!

Algorithmic Anthropomorphizing, Platform Gossip, and Backlashes: Aspirational Content Creators’ Narratives About YouTube’s Algorithm on Reddit - John R. Gallagher, Antonia Pecoraro Hernandez, 2025 This paper examines how aspirational content creators (ACCs) on the r/NewTubers subreddit forum understand and discuss YouTube’s algorithm. This study employs t...

Interested content creators? Gossip about YouTube's algorithm? Academic articles with unnecessary long titles?

"Algorithmic Anthropomorphizing, Platform Gossip, and Backlashes: Aspirational Content Creators’ Narratives About YouTube’s Algorithm on Reddit"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#4C25 Saturday Afternoon workshop. Phew! I'm beat. Gotta head to the airport partway thru tho.

As you leave #4C25: try (try) to take time in the next few days or week to sit down and reflect on what you’re taking away. What are you DOING with what you learned? Or just collapse from fatigue. That’s good too.

One of the cheerleader dads asked me what the conference theme “computer love” meant. I said I have no idea either lol #4C25

Where are folks grabbing dinner tonight? Before Bedford party? #4C25

@annamillsoer.bsky.social I’d love to meet you in person at some point here at the conference! I’ve only followed you online and through stories of friends!