Sunday, October 7, 2012
Blog Assignment #6
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
In the video, “Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Randy Paush immediately caught my attention when he said, “If you had one lecture to give, what would it be?” In the lecture, Pausch discusses his own childhood dreams, how you can enable the dreams of others, and how you can achieve your own dreams. This was Pausch’s last lecture, because he was given just a few months left to live due to numerous tumors on his liver. Despite his health going downhill, he was in an incredible mood. It truly was inspiring to watch him make the best of his situation, and still have a great passion for life. For this lecture, Pausch used PowerPoint, props, and pictures from his life to help illustrate particular points.
The first portion of Pausch’s lecture was dedicated to his childhood dreams. His dreams were to experience zero gravity, play in the NFL, have an article in the World Book Encyclopedia, being Captain Kirk, be the guy that wins stuffed animals at the fair, and become a Disney Imagineer. Out of this portion of the lecture, the point that I gravitated towards was when he talked about the concept of the “head fake.” The “head fake” is indirect learning, what Pausch stresses is so important. Before EDM310 I never thought much about indirect learning. Dr. Strange, like Randy Pausch, both emphasize giving assignments, and making students step out of the box to figure them out with minimal guidance. After taking EDM310, I can truly see how important indirect learning is, and it’s definitely something I will be enforcing in my classroom.
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Hello Sara. I would like to start off by saying that your blogpost is very well written. I really enjoyed your posts. The part that I enjoyed the most was the part about "head fake" and internal learning. I definitely connected with that part. The only thing that I could say about your blogpost was that maybe you could elaborate more about the different topics within Pausch's speech. Other than that minor correction I thought your post was great!
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-Ashaunte
Did you watch the entire video? You only skimmed the surface of the many things that Dr. Pausch had to say about teaching and learning. Your post could have been much better with a more thorough commentary.
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