Luc Arnaud Dunoyer

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Luc Arnaud Dunoyer

Exploring User Perspectives on ChatGPT - An article review

May 25, 2023 Luc Dunoyer

“Distribution of user discussions concerning the utility of ChatGPT across diverse educational settings. ChatGPT is primarily discussed in the context of higher education, K-12 education, and practical skills learning.”
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-user-discussions-concerning-the-utility-of-ChatGPT-across_fig2_370948138

Just sharing my thoughts about ChatGPT and the recent craze that it spurred. Long story short, I’m not sure why people are so afraid of change … I embrace it :-).

Active learning and content cramming

September 5, 2022 Luc Dunoyer

Sometimes we don’t want to cut down on the course content because we mistake that for our own feelings as teachers. Call it sunk-cost fallacy or simply ego issues, the one who pay the price is the student.

How do we put our emotions as teachers in the background and focus on what’s good for our students? Do we need more data or do we need to trust the existing data? What does it look like to focus on students rather than the content?

Academic success, cultural competence, and critical consciousness

February 13, 2022 Luc Dunoyer

How a Professional Development opportunity in the Fall of 2021 opened my eye to a whole new world of teaching practices embedded in the need to support our students and share the learning power in our classrooms.

Revised Bloom's taxonomy and metacognition

June 1, 2021 Luc Dunoyer

A very cool representation of the revised taxonomy in 2001 (see text for details).

Does this look cool or what?! But seriously, this is a drastic change from the original Bloom’s taxonomy. More details in the post with my take on metacognition and what we can do in our classrooms: If you are not teaching metacognition in your classroom, are you even teaching anything at all?!

First START research field day!

March 31, 2021 Luc Dunoyer

From this point of view, we can see the downstream portion of the stream. Downstream of the disturbance that the land bridge represents. You can guess the concrete culvert under the bridge. It’s your typical flatbed concrete that prevents almost all… — From this point of view, we can see the downstream portion of the stream. Downstream of the disturbance that the land bridge represents. You can guess the concrete culvert under the bridge. It’s your typical flatbed concrete that prevents almost all species from crossing the underpass …

The STem Academic Research and Training (START) program at Wake Technical Community College (WTCC) allows students to be introduced to scientific experiments firsthand.

Without our history we are doomed to repeat our errors from the past

January 7, 2021 Luc Dunoyer

Most of the resources shared below come from the work of the American Historical Association.

Is history doomed to repeat itself?!

What an old, but seminal, paper from 1995 can tell us about teaching?

October 30, 2020 Luc Dunoyer

This picture comes from a colleague’s excellent blog post (opens in a new window) and illustrate one of the points I make below perfectly. [plain text URL: https://educationrickshaw.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/t-11.png] — This picture comes from a colleague’s excellent blog post (opens in a new window) and illustrate one of the points I make below perfectly.
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Turns out, a lot ...

Why do I curve my exams up while not teaching on a curve?!

July 12, 2020 Luc Dunoyer

Image taken from a blog post on assessment standards (opens in a new window), quite different subject than what is discussed here, but it gets the point I want to make first across: Students are different in their abilities when they come in the cla… — Image taken from a blog post on assessment standards (opens in a new window), quite different subject than what is discussed here, but it gets the point I want to make first across: Students are different in their abilities when they come in the classroom.
[plain text URL: https://teacherhead.com/2013/07/17/assessment-standards-and-the-bell-curve/]

Students are different in their abilities when they come in the classroom (see the curve above). However, we can still hear to this day talks among faculty of teaching on a curve in the academic halls … and this is a problem!

How to Teach Critical Thinking

June 2, 2020 Luc Dunoyer

One of my dearest interest is to teach critical thinking as I think this is the one thing students can take away from their college experience. This paper challenged my understanding of critical thinking as a transversal concept.

Achievement gap in STEM, can faculty do anything?

March 22, 2020 Luc Dunoyer

The achievement gap is partially under faculty control and all it would take is a mind-frame shift!