Blog Assignment #8

What Can We Learn About Teaching And Learning From Randy Pausch?


Randy's Last Lecture

In Randy Pausch's tear jerking last lecture, I gained quite a bit of wonderful advice on how to become not only a teacher, but also an excellent learner. Randy is a professor as Carnegie Mellon and has cancerous rumors in his liver. However, this last lecture did not focus on the downside of this event, but rather how to lead your life. He starts off by talking about his childhood dreams and how, even though they were from his childhood, they are very important. They are the motivators for your future. These dreams lead you to learn lessons that help you to constantly grow. Getting the fundamentals down is the first step to accomplishing these dreams.
There are many things I learned from Randy's last lecture. My favorite was that experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. This ties in with another point he state about conquering brick walks. Brick walls are not there to keep you out, they are there to make you show how much you really want it. It takes time to make things happen and everything that will go wrong can go wrong.
We all know that the best way to learn is by having fun. This is one of the points that Randy really stresses. Following along with never losing the child-like wonder. These two things go hand and hand. Using that child-like wonder helps the teacher and students find ways to learn while also having fun!