Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
WOW! This video was absolutely amazing. Randy Pausch was an outstanding man who dedicated his last few years to his series "Last Lecture". One particuar lecture was Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. In the
very beginning he says not to pity him, but how could you not? He begins his lecture to talk about his childhood dreams and continues on to enabling the dreams of others.
Mr. Pausch achieved all of his childhood dreams. When he talks about enabling childhood dreams he seems to be really sincere. His way of teaching is very inspirational, the work that he gave students was incredible and their responses were even better. They were given big tasks and they performed greatly. He saw his students as brilliant, which I honestly do not think that most teachers do. He was able to excite the school as a whole. He described the brick walls we face in life, as ways to show ourselves how badly we want something. I could not agree more, it is about pushing yourself to the fullest and pushing through the walls. The walls are also ways of keeping people out who do not really want this.
One way of learning he describes was, indirect learning. Indirect learning, or "head fake", is making people think they are doing one thing, while actually teaching them another thing. He introduced a class called, Building Virtual Worlds. It was amazing to see what his students could do. He used a project based curriculum. One project that this class created, was Project Alice.
At the end of the video he tells us his two "head fakes" about his speech. The first one was that people need to lead their life the right way, and dream will find you. The second one was that this speech was not for the audience, it was for his three children. He gave this speech, so that his kids could go back after he is gone, and get advice from him.
very beginning he says not to pity him, but how could you not? He begins his lecture to talk about his childhood dreams and continues on to enabling the dreams of others.
Mr. Pausch achieved all of his childhood dreams. When he talks about enabling childhood dreams he seems to be really sincere. His way of teaching is very inspirational, the work that he gave students was incredible and their responses were even better. They were given big tasks and they performed greatly. He saw his students as brilliant, which I honestly do not think that most teachers do. He was able to excite the school as a whole. He described the brick walls we face in life, as ways to show ourselves how badly we want something. I could not agree more, it is about pushing yourself to the fullest and pushing through the walls. The walls are also ways of keeping people out who do not really want this.
One way of learning he describes was, indirect learning. Indirect learning, or "head fake", is making people think they are doing one thing, while actually teaching them another thing. He introduced a class called, Building Virtual Worlds. It was amazing to see what his students could do. He used a project based curriculum. One project that this class created, was Project Alice.
At the end of the video he tells us his two "head fakes" about his speech. The first one was that people need to lead their life the right way, and dream will find you. The second one was that this speech was not for the audience, it was for his three children. He gave this speech, so that his kids could go back after he is gone, and get advice from him.
Kaylan,
ReplyDeleteI agree, Randy Pausch is a true inspiration. His passion for teaching shines throughout the entire video. It takes a remarkable person and teacher to accomplish the things Randy Pausch did, especially in such a short amount of time. In his video, he mentioned unaccomplished dreams and those benefits. What do you think would have happened if he had decided not to be persistent and pursue the Disney Imagineer?
The only thing that I would critique about your blog post would be, to give a little more background information on Randy Pausch. This will allow readers who are not familiar with him to better understand the post and why he ask them not to pity him.
Keep up the good work.
Cassie