Blog Post # 7

Blog post number 7 is about Randy Pausch's lecture titled Randy Pausch's Last Lecture. We find out that he is sadly about to die, but he would like to pass on some very helpful tips. What I have learned from Pausch's lecture about teaching and learning is to never give up. Make goals like he did and do not back down until you have achieved them. For example one of his goals was to become an NFL player. Pausch could not achieve that goal because of physical limits, but he still learned from it. It could be helpful in the class, say you have a student who just refuses to learn. As the teacher you can not make he or she learn, but learn from it. That way you can take steps to avoid conflict in the future.

Another topic I would like to bring up is the term "head-faking". This means to fake a student out by making them learn something then the student finding out they learned something completely different. to me this goes in hand with Dr.Strange's use of the term, "burp - back" courses. I think if a teacher could master the art of head-faking it would reduce the chances of having a burp-back way of teaching.