Watching the video Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams I learned that Project Based Learning can be fun and rewarding. Randy Pausch created a course called Virtual Worlds, with 50 students divided into groups, each group did a project every two weeks. After finishing the first project the students exceeded his expectations, but he was advised to let them know they did good but they could do better. Each time the students finished their projects they kept exceeding his expectations. I learned that having fun, helping others and loyalty will go a long way in teaching and learning. Randy Pausch explained that most of what we know, we learn indirectly or by "head fake". In the video he mentioned the best way to teach someone is to teach them something else. Randy Pausch showed us that we can have fun learning new and wonderful things. With hard work, trust, being prepared, and finding the best in everybody you will achieve your goals and no matter how many times you hit that brick wall, keep trying.
Friday, October 10, 2014
Blog Post 8
What Can We Learn About Teaching and Learning From Randy Pausch?
Watching the video Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams I learned that Project Based Learning can be fun and rewarding. Randy Pausch created a course called Virtual Worlds, with 50 students divided into groups, each group did a project every two weeks. After finishing the first project the students exceeded his expectations, but he was advised to let them know they did good but they could do better. Each time the students finished their projects they kept exceeding his expectations. I learned that having fun, helping others and loyalty will go a long way in teaching and learning. Randy Pausch explained that most of what we know, we learn indirectly or by "head fake". In the video he mentioned the best way to teach someone is to teach them something else. Randy Pausch showed us that we can have fun learning new and wonderful things. With hard work, trust, being prepared, and finding the best in everybody you will achieve your goals and no matter how many times you hit that brick wall, keep trying.
Watching the video Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams I learned that Project Based Learning can be fun and rewarding. Randy Pausch created a course called Virtual Worlds, with 50 students divided into groups, each group did a project every two weeks. After finishing the first project the students exceeded his expectations, but he was advised to let them know they did good but they could do better. Each time the students finished their projects they kept exceeding his expectations. I learned that having fun, helping others and loyalty will go a long way in teaching and learning. Randy Pausch explained that most of what we know, we learn indirectly or by "head fake". In the video he mentioned the best way to teach someone is to teach them something else. Randy Pausch showed us that we can have fun learning new and wonderful things. With hard work, trust, being prepared, and finding the best in everybody you will achieve your goals and no matter how many times you hit that brick wall, keep trying.
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What a wonderful post Monica. My favorite part from the video that you mentioned was the advice Randy received on how to not "limit" his students. In order to achieve that, Randy had to keep telling his students that their work was good but could be better. This is a tactic I have always known I would use in my classroom one day. This helps push students to levels they never knew were possible. I learned a lot from Randy's video and life story. Great post!
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