Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch was dying from cancer. Instead of feeling bad for himself, he did a lecture on achieving childhood dreams. He was a professor that ventured into teaching VR. Randy Pausch teaching method was fantastic. He taught on his child dreams. He taught on enabling the dreams of others. And he also taught on lessens learned when comes to living your childhood dreams or enabling the dreams of others.

He expounded on his childhood dreams of becoming an astronaut,NFL football player, to meet Captain Kirk and becoming an imagineer. He had that grand opportunity to experience gravity in reference to floating like an astronaut. He had the opportunity to play football but not in the NFL. He got the chance to meet Captain Kirk. His most accomplished dream was to became an imagineer. He went to Disney World thinking to himself that he wanted to make the imaginee like the one there. He later went to college and pursued his dream to become a imaginer. He sweet talked himself into world of VR. So he ended up working on an Aladdin VR.

Then he went on to talk about enabling the childhood dreams of others. One of his students tells him he wants to work on the upcoming Star Trek. He did this not knowing there would be another making of Star Trek. And his student did get the chance to work on the next Star Trek. He later had a course on VR to enable others to accomplish their childhood dreams.

Lessons Learned when it comes to achieving your childhood dreams or enabling others' childhood dreams is very important. One lesson was on when brick walls are put up, it's to see how bad you really want it. Another was that knowing or realizing that you need others to accomplish your dreams. In conclusion, Randy Pausch stated that, "He did this lecture for his kids."

A Vision of Students Today

This video is a vision for students today. Some of the things in the video are geared toward me. And the others I have seen taken place in some of my college class. The fact that I will be owing a lot of debt after college is my issue. Some of the things we learn in class will not help us in the real world. A lot of it is not relvent to me.

Most of this video, I do see taking place in my college classes. Students are texting during class. Some students play games on their laptops while class is in session. Some students have paid for class and they do not come. this video does capture my college experience.

What I've Learned This Year by Mr.McCling

McCling's essay was outstanding. It gives newcoming teachers a lot to think about. I like how said not to miss out on the important aspect of teacher, which the children's comprehension. he also pointed out how teachers need to be flexible, communicate, and reasonable. He also talked about how teachers should listen to their students. I love how he ran the listen tool home stating they the teacher may be the only one listening. Agian i really enjoyed Mr. Mcclung's essay.

The Benefits of Podcasting in the Classroom

Autumn
I watched another video on podcasting called, "The Benefits of Podcasting in the Classroom." In the video they talked about how podcasting is an effective way of interacting with students outside of the classroom. Secondly, they talked about how podcasting can be a form of learning students of today are familiar with and therefore makes it relevant to them. And I also picked the one on how parents can see and hear what their children are doing at school.

Podcasting can be an effective way of interacting with students outside of the classroom. The speaker on podcasting pointed out how students play video games and spend most of their time with technology. But Podcasting can also be a benefit because it enhances their structure. They showed an example of a young girl who had a fever of 106. The young girl had to stay home and miss her test but because of podcasting she was able to communicate with her teacher.

They also discussed how podcasting can be a form of learning students of today are familiar with and therefore makes it relevant to them. The host took them to Mr. Dell's history class. He had them to do a project on a historical event. One young girl in his class did her assignment on the story of an African American slave who was taken from her parents and then sold.

Lastly, I picked the one on how parents can see and hear what their children are doing at school. The principle in the video talked about how parents love to see what's going on in the classroom. She spoke on how much of a benefit the podcast is in the class for parents.

Podcast Done By Students

Blossom
I watched the podcast on technologically literate teacher. It was done by Dr. Strange and four of his summer students. He ask them the question, "What is a technologically literate teacher?" Nicole states, "How can a teacher expect his or her students to learn if he or she is not willing too." Dr.Strong point out,that the teacher must be willing to learn some kind of technology an order to teacher their students. Kitty agreed with Nicole that all teachers need to be willing to learn some type of technology for her student's sake.

They also pointed out how teachers don't have to know all about computers but they need to know something. Dana made the suggestion that the teacher needs to be willing to explore what they know about computers. Kitty pointed out that it's all about the altitude of the teacher. She stated, "That she was nervous about Dr. Strange's computer class." She said, "But she learned not to be afraid of making a mistakes, because making a mistake will make you better."

I thought that the podcast was good and very educator. For the most part I was looking for a more precise definition for technologically literate teacher. If I could define technologically literate teacher, I would say, "It is a teacher that is educated in techonolgy."