Blog Post Assignment #8

What Can We Learn About Teaching and Learning From Randy Pausch?

            I think there is almost nothing we cannot learn from Randy Pausch. I did not know you could learn something from your childhood dreams. I learned from Randy Pausch that childhood dreams are lessons. I remember being young and wanting to be an NBA player. I am now twenty two years old. I did not make it. I think what Prauch was teaching us about childhood dreams is that look back and see what you participated as a child to achieve that goal. I was in YMCA basketball until the sixth grade. I learned teamwork, responsibility, and passion. Passion is something that some say cannot be taught. I think it can be taught to you at a young age. You particpate in a sport for years. You practice everyday as a child. You are constantlly outside shooting. You get in arguments with your mom about when to come inside. You have learned and developed a passion for something. We have learned all of these thing from what Pausch termed the "head fake." Pausch is exactly right the best teaching method is the "head fake." Children will learn so much more when they do not know what they are being taught. 

        Children have so many great qualities when you observe them. They are quick learners, creative, and passionate. The main thing I need to carry from Randy Pausch is to be childlike. Teacher's tend to be boring and not to creative. We have to change this because if your are these characteristics children can only learn the minimum. We have to be energetic and passionate. We have to be childlike. We have to believe that tomorrow is coming but not today. We have to get the maximum out of each and every class we teach. The technology is so much now. We have no excuse to be boring and lame. We have it the easiest then most teachers ever had to be creative. It is no excuse not to be childlike. Childlike, we all say was some of the best time. Let's relive the best times to teach the children so they can learn more than they should. We should make the sponges look for some more water every day.