Sunday, June 30, 2013

Blog Post #10

Randy Pausch 

 Before Randy Pausch passed he gave one last lecture. In his Last Lecture he talks about the importance of childhood dreams. Randy also talks about his childhood dreams and how to enable the dreams of others. Randy has a big emphasis on not giving up. He says that you may have to go through quite a few obstacles but she should never stop until you achieve your dreams. In my opinion teachers could relate to this by taking that attitude into teaching students. So for example a student may be if you think a student has very high potential but they are stubborn and difficult sometimes that the teacher should not give up on that student but keep trying to push and help them towards their own goals. Randy also says that if a person tells you that you are doing something wrong and gets onto you for that that you should listen to them instead of just thinking they are out to get you or something like that. The person who is yelling at you for doing something wrong is usually just trying to give you advice so you should listen to them they could give you some good advice.

Randy is one amazing person in my book. It is very inspirational to me that he took time out of the last few months of his life to do a lecture like this and basically tell people to never give up! Even though he is weeks away from passing away he is still talking about how important childhood dreams are as well as enabling other people to achieve their own dreams! In my opinion if their were more people like Randy on this earth it would be a much better place!

3 comments:

  1. Looks good Chris! I thought you did a good job summarizing. I also think the picture you have does a good job describing who Randy Pausch was and the placement is great! I did come across something that you may want to change. On the line under the picture, with the words "...obstacles but she should never..." the word "she" may want to be replaced with "you". There were a few places I saw that could of used a comma so just be aware for future posts. Other than that it looked good!

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  2. Thoughtful. Interesting.


    His speech is a very powerful statement. I hope you read it every year and put to work the things you have shared and the many other things about learning and education that Dr. Pausch shared with us in his "Last Lecture".

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  3. "So for example a student may be if you think a student has very high potential but they are stubborn and difficult sometimes that the teacher should not give up on that student but keep trying to push and help them towards their own goals." This sentence is really confusing! You need to reword it.

    "so you should listen to them they could give you some good advice." This is a run-on sentence. Be careful!

    "In my opinion if their were--" Their should be there.

    Also, don't forget to add alt and title modifiers to your pictures!

    Randy really is an amazing person! Even though he knew he only had a short amount of time left, he made lightly of his situation and didn't let it drag him down. We should all strive to be like that in our lives!

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