Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture was very inspiring to watch, and anybody that watches this video will learn so much after it. Randy Pausch's Last Lecture in summary is about childhood dreams, enabling the dreams of other people, and lessons learned from all of that. Randy Pausch gives great life experiences of his own to help people see that childhood dreams can come true if somebody takes the time to pursue those childhood dreams.

Randy Pausch gave great and important teaching methods during his Last Lecture. One of the teaching methods that Randy Pausch spoke on was the importance of enabling other people's childhood dreams. He said in the Last Lecture that enabling other's dreams is often better than enabling your own dreams. As a future educator, I want to enable other children's childhood dreams because that is what makes every child different and unique. Enabling other's childhood dreams is what teachers across the world do. Educators are in classrooms to educate, and part of that is enabling their children's dreams.

Another important teaching method that Randy Pausch lectured on was the importance of a "head fake". Head fakes are teaching techniques that enable children or anybody to have fun when learning how to do something else that is hard. An example that Randy Pausch gave was children playing computer games but really learning how to program. Head fakes are very helpful in any teaching environment. Head fakes can help children learn things that they would normally be afraid to attempt. Head fakes make learning more relaxed.

The most important thing that I learned from Randy Pausch's Last Lecture was the importance of brick walls. Randy Pausch states in his Last Lecture, "Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things". That quote is so true for anybody. Anybody, especially children, that encounters a brick wall does not need to look at it as a wall but as a way to prove themselves. If educators teach all children the concept of a brick wall then all children would not get let down or upset when they face a wall; they will look at the walls as a sort of challenge they need to overcome. Also another great quote that I learned from Randy Pausch in his Last Lecture was, "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted". That quote is so important, especially while teaching children. As educators, teachers must teach children that every situation is a learning opportunity.

The other important teaching method that Randy Pausch spoke on in his Last Lecture was the importance of creativity. Randy advocates the importance of creativity versus straight test scores. He uses his examples of applying for graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University. His GRE scores were not great, yet he, along with many others, helped create the ETC program. Creativity is extremely important to children because it is what enables children to do well in school. Randy Pausch states in his Last Lecture, "Never lose the child-like wonder". Randy is stating that all children are creative and children being creative do wondrous things.

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture is a lecture on the importance of childhood dreams and enabling those dreams. Randy Pausch gives the fundamentals needed in order to enable other's dreams. Randy says that everybody wanting something needs to have something to bring to the table. The lessons learned from Randy's Last Lecture are helping others and learning from others as well.