{"id":1307,"date":"2008-08-12T18:53:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T10:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2013-07-12T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T11:26:06","slug":"randy-pausch-last-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/randy-pausch-last-lecture-1307","title":{"rendered":"Randy Pausch Last Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a superb video. <\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, over 6 million people have viewed it. Randy Pausch was a lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University and he sadly passed away from cancer in July 2008.<\/p>\n<p>There is some excellent stuff in this video:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Education should be less about book learning and more about <i>doing<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>His ETC (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etc.cmu.edu\/\">Entertainment Technology Center<\/a>) has expanded to Australia and Singapore.<\/li>\n<li>His attitude to his plight (knowing that he will be dead within months) is positive and inspiring.<\/li>\n<li>Peer assessment is very powerful as a motivator and as feedback.<\/li>\n<li>A main aim of his: \"Millions of kids having fun learning something hard.\"<\/li>\n<li>Creativity and fun are key elements of effective education.<\/li>\n<li>Education is largely about <i>selling<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Be willing to learn from your students - they are not blank slates, after all.<\/li>\n<li>Be a Tigger, not an Ee-yore.<\/li>\n<li>Dreams can be achieved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What a cool lecturer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ji5_MqicxSo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/randy-pausch-last-lecture-1307#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Pausch delivers an inspiring lecture on the story of his Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n<p>Randy knew that he only had months to live when he delivered this lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}