Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch’s video was pretty interesting. To be honest, I was really dreading having to watch an hour long video, but it actually wasn’t that bad. Randy’s last lecture is about his childhood dreams, enabling dreams of others, and what you can learn from these dreams. He talked about some interesting aspects of his life and stated how dreams can come true if you work hard enough. He also showed how his dream of playing in the NFL didn’t come true, but the football experience made a difference in his life. He is basically trying to say that even if some dreams don’t come true the effort put out can make a change in your life.

One of the important methods Randy talked about was the significance of enabling others childhood dreams. Helping other people’s dreams come true can often be more important than making your own dreams come true. If we help students dreams come true we can have a huge impact on their lives. As future teachers we will be there to help students learn new things and possibly help their dreams come true. My dream has always been to become a teacher just like my parents are. Now it is coming true and I will have the chance to help other individual’s dreams come true.

Randy Pausch also used a brick wall as an example. He stated that you shouldn’t look at a brick wall as a wall that you can’t get through, but look at it as something you have to work for to get around. Let the brick wall be proof of how badly you want something. This example is a perfect way to teach children to keep trying and never give up. As teachers we need to use examples like this to teach students that every opportunity they get they need to take advantage and learn from it.

Randy Pausch’s last lecture is a lecture on the importance of childhood dreams and making those dreams possible. He made it clear that even if some dreams don’t come true that they can still be helpful in life as long as you work hard at what you’re trying to accomplish. We as future teachers should take this advice and translate it to the class rooms when we have the chance to change many young individuals’ lives.