Morgan Rushlow's EDM 310 class blog: Blog Post # 10-What Can We Learn About Teaching and Learning from Randy Pausch?

What can we learn from this video-Randy Pausch-Last Lecture- Achieving Your Childhood Dreams?

First, it is important to understand what Randy was talking about.

that life is short and that you will not achieve everything you had hoped to achieve as a kid but you will get to experience all that you want to experience.
It is important to reflect, as your ideas change and your thinking changes, and it is important to make realistic goals
That when people give you feedback it is a good thing because that means you haven’t been given up on.
That you can really be surprised when you wait and see the progress that has been made after time has passed.
That it is important to start fulfilling your passions at a young age because these begin at a young age.
That learning can be fun

What does this mean?

That lifelong learning is important- it it not important how long it takes to learn something-it happens all life long
creativity and passion must be harnessed at a young age.
thinking always change as time passes and reflection is important.- every goal will not be achieved because goals change all the time.
students will go beyond what the standards say must be learned if given the opportunity
collaboration on projects can help students learn more than sitting through a lecture
technology is only a tool that students can use to assist them in learning
learning tasks must be interesting and fun for students to be effective

Randy Pausch did a wonderful presentation about this and he showed what students can do if you let them by talking about his students virtual world projects. I think we can learn from Randy Pausch that PBL is effective and a great way to teach students more than just what standards tell teachers we must teach the students.