In the video, Randy Paush's Last Lecture, Randy discusses three topics: his childhood dreams, enabling the dream of others, and the lessons that are learned when achieving your dreams or enabling others to achieve their dreams. Randy Paush was a very inspirational speaker. He was told that he only had a few months left to live due to the numerous amounts of tumors that he had in his liver, Randy said, "we can not change the cards that we are dealt just how we play the hand". He lived by this quote in his final days. He chose to live life to the fullest, and cherish each moment that he had left. As a child he had big dreams, have something to bring to the table, that will make you more welcome". I think that as a future teacher that statement is very true. Not only as faculty to faculty, but in teaching to your students. If you have something to offer students, they will be more intrigued to learn. One of his dreams was to play in the NFL, although he did not play for the NFL he did play football as a child. In one of his practices his couch talked about focusing on the other twenty one players that were on the team, not just the player who had the ball. This practice taught him how important fundamentals are. Randy said "If you don't have the fundamentals down, because other wise the fancy stuff isn't going to work". I find this statement very true. As an educator fundamentals are very important for a child's learning. If a child doesn't have the basic knowledge of something, they will never grasp the entire concept.
Brick walls are something that we all as individuals are faced with. The lessons that can be learned from these brick walls are that they are there for a reason, they let us prove how bad we want it. Randy demonstrated how we could use brick walls in a positive way to enable the childhood dreams of others. As a professor, Randy was able to work with students who had dreams, and he pushed them to do their very best. Even when his students did their very best, he pushed them to be better. Randy said the best way to teach someone something is to make them think that they are learning something else.
I was very moved by his last lecture. No matter what he put others first. He is truly and inspiration, even in his last days. He had such a strong passion for life and teaching others to do what he loved best
HI Erin,
ReplyDeleteYour post was informative and you have a working link. You have a photo, but you did not put in your alt/title modifiers. There were also a few grammar errors.
As a child he had big dreams, have something to bring to the table, that will make you more welcome". - This sentence is a little confusing I'm not sure where the quote begins because there are no beginning quotation marks.
"If you don't have the fundamentals down, because other wise the fancy stuff isn't going to work". - His actual quote was, "you've got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work". That makes more sense, yours was a little awkward. Also, otherwise is one word.
Also double check your punctuation, you left the period off of your last sentence.
Just make sure you proof read before you publish. Sometimes I proof read mine more than once and still miss things. Good luck!
"As a child he had big dreams, have something to bring to the table, that will make you more welcome". I think that as a future teacher that statement is very true. Not only as faculty to faculty, but in teaching to your students. If you have something to offer students, they will be more intrigued to learn." I am having trouble understanding what you mean here. Can you provide an example or two of something that you would "bring to the table"?
ReplyDeleteDr. Pausch had a lot more to say about teaching and learning than you covered!
You got some good advice from Rachael in the comment above.