This summer, I am co-leading faculty workshops titled "Cultivating AI Literacy in the Classroom" with other faculty and the academic technology group. It's been so joyful to engage the conversations happening about AI literacy across the curriculum.

When writing teachers present about AI, how often do they talk about using it vs. refusing it? So far in the #4C26 program, I count 75 sessions that explore uses of AI 7 sessions that advocate refusing AI 68 sessions that do not advocate use or refusal link.annarmills.com/sessions

I really like the nuance that @annamillsoer.bsky.social 's post brings to the conversations around Refuse AI and #4C26. The IHE article www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in... made it feel like AI Refusal was the only position faculty were taking.

I spend so much of my time convincing automated sinks that I exist

Pro Tip: sit down and brainstorm in the week after you attend a conference—without researching or using AI. Those talks and ideas are floating around in your head—what are they telling you? #4C26

Buh-bye Cleveland! Flying home from #4C26 a little later than everyone else!

Last day of #4C26. The ideas from this week's sessions keep following us into the hallway. What conversation has stuck with you this week? #CompositionStudies #RhetComp #WritingStudies

That's right. Our display copies will officially be cheaper than a bottle of smart water at the #4C26 convention center Starbucks (plus you won't have to wait in a 20 minute line). Come and get em 8AM - 12PM!

Pssssst hey graduate students at #4C26. We're going to be giving way what we don't sell to, well, YOU, so come by our booth before 12PM and pad out your research libraries. You know you'll need it for that lit review.

Great seeing friends from grad school at #4C26!!! :)

If you haven’t said hi yet at #4C26, come by the NCTE booth tomorrow and check out our new book. I’d love to chat about what you’re doing in your classes.

Come check out our qualitative human-focused research tomorrow morning, #4C26! 8:45-9:15 in room 12.

The antiracist reviewing heuristic is a great, widely adopted resource that many journals and presses are asking reviewers to use when making their contributions. #4c26 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#4c26 Most of the learning that happens at CCCC is confined to people who attended the sessions. A collection of knowledge work should help mobilize our collective wisdom beyond the physical conference. Can we do something like this companion publication again? publicationsncte.org/content/CCCC...

Looking forward to "Pushing Back against Homogeneity: Conversations with Teachers about Linguistic Justice, Equity, and AI" with my @pairrfeedback.bsky.social colleagues @palimplexus.bsky.social and @sophiaminnillo.bsky.social and also Ana Ruiz Alonso Bartol. #4C26 s1.goeshow.com/ncte/cccc/20...

#4C26 #OGS Opening General Session starts in 15 minutes in Grand Ballroom AB. Come join us! Pretty empty so far.

PREORDERS available now - Digital Literacies for Human Connection: 25 Ways to Engage Students in People-Centered Digital Practices. @mettalrose.bsky.social @ambuck.bsky.social, Rich Shivener, and authors of 25 chapters have pour our heart and soul into this book. Check it out at #4C26!

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!

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...

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

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!!!

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...

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"!

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.

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!

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!

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!!!

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!

#Collaboration is a changemaker in post-graduate writing according to Karen Lunsford in the Wayfinder project #4C25

Congratulations to all Scholars for the Dream award this year! #4C25

The Wayfinding Project includes 19 focus groups / 30 participants!!!!!! exploring UC graduates' orientation toward writing 3-10 years after graduation. What a great project! @carlwhithaus.bsky.social, Karen Lunsford, and Jonathan Alexander #4C25

@carlwhithaus.bsky.social and Karen Lunsford do a great job giving background and framing fo the Wayfinding Project, not assuming too much prior knowledge on the topic. Really interesting project! #4C25

It was lovely seeing editors and publishers in the action center and in the exhibition #4C25

These presentations are too long. 15 minutes is plenty. #4C25

Aspiring to channel the energy of @voleuseck.bsky.social’s live recaps of #4C25. Currently in A.12 Strategic Illegibility: Rhetorics of Nontranslation. New book under review with very cool collaborators.

Calling on Ladson-Billings, Hambrick explains how #TFT #Transfer pedagogy can be adapted to be more anti-racist and culturally sustaining. “We need to expand what counts as Prior Knowledge” she says! Boom! #4C25

Now hearing Keira Hambrick speak about #TFT #Transfer in FYW. I love how she doesn't assume everyone knows what trasnfer is yet. Great presentation! #4C25

In the #transfer #TFT sponsored session at #4C25, learning about transfer into WID courses

Yay for #cwcon representing in the opening talk at #4C25!!! What a great analysis of GenAI and its problems.

@codyhmelar.bsky.social CONGRATS on your Scholars for a Dream Award at #4C25!!!!