Blog Post #8

Teaching & learning from Randy Pausch

Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

The link above is the "last lecture" of Dr. Randy Pausch. As I sat down to watch this video to write my blog for the week I saw that the video was long and didn't expect to watch the whole thing, but I was wrong. Pausch's lecture video was very enticing that I even enjoyed watching it. After watching the video, where Pausch addresses three things:

1. My Childhood dreams
2. Enable the dreams of others
3. Lessons learned

I wondered what I could learn about teaching and learning from him, and I believe one of the main things I learned is that Pausch was ALWAYS learning more even when he was a professor himself.

Pausch was constantly learning from his colleagues, mentors, and students. He mentioned so many different people in his video that helped him and pushed him academically to be better. I love the story he mentioned in his video, where he gave his students a project to create something, and he was absolutly blown away with all the work the students had thought of. But instead on telling the students that this was a good standard he said, "good work, but I think everyone could do better" Pausch didn't want to limit the students with a standard, and it was the best thing he could do for them.

Overall, the video was very good. Dr. Randy Pausch was a very talented and successful man. He has taught me that I should ALWAYS be learning and pushing myself even after I finish school, and also to never limit my students. Very simple things that are great at inspiring me in my journey of teaching.