Blog 7

Randy Pausch Last Lecture Randy Pausch's last lecture was amazing. I watched the video twice. Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pausch only had a couple months left, to live. In his last lecture the key points that stood out to me was to never loose your imagination, and raise the bar.

Pausch had childhood dreams that he wanted to accomplish. As a child Pausch wanted to be in zero gravity. Pausch knew he was not cut out to be an astronaut but, it did not stop him. Pausch lived out his childhood dream by being able to be in zero gravity. Pausch showed me how even though he was not an astronaut he still achieved his dream. Another thing in his story was that brick walls will appear but you can not let them stop you.

Next, on Pausch childhood dream was to be in the NFL. Pausch describes how he was a small child and only played for one play. Pausch's coach taught the players the fundamentals of the game before they could actually play. I can use this in teaching because, students need basic information before doing an actually problem or solving an issue.

The last point that I enjoyed by Pausch is by teaching students how to learn without actually teaching them. One way Pausch did this was by helping create a program called Alice. Alice was a program that taught students how to write a program. The students where thinking they were having fun. Learning should be fun for students and teachers should make it entertaining. Pausch taught me a lot of fundamental values for teaching students and how to encourage my students throughout life.