Blog Post #8

Randy Pausch was an inspiration in his video, Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. He has such a positive outlook on life! Mr. Pausch wanted educators to let their students act out situations and lessons in front of an audience. This brings a different perspective to students as they are learning a subject. I think it is absolutely incredible that one of his childhood dreams was to be an Imagineer for Disney. This was also one of my dreams I had whenever I was younger. Randy Pausch stressed that it is important to encourage students to have large dreams and aspirations. As with any large dream, there will be obstacles to overcome. But, as an educator, we must cheer them on and help them as they overcome whatever tries to get in the way of these aspirations! He talked about his football coach in the beginning of the video and that story set the tone for the video. His coach explained to him that if no one is getting on to you after you mess up, they have given up on you. I feel that this will be something that I will tell my students frequently. Whenever you are placed in a position of a leader/educator, there will be times that you will have to be honest with students. This honesty will guide them to success, even if they do not see this path at the time.

The main message I took from this video is to be your student's motivators. It is our job as educators to keep these students in the right direction. We have to make sure that we encourage them to knock down those brick walls until they achieve their goals!