Randy Paush's last lecture

This last lecture was interesting.He was given was given two to six months to live when he gave this last lecture.He is upbeat and looks to be in good health during the long duration of this lecture though.He even does some exercise to show that he feels fine.He talks of childhood dreams as motivations for life.He goes through showing how he achieved his childhood dreams.Some of them were achieved in not conventional ways.I really liked the expression he used about "experience being what you get when you don't get what you want."
Well this assignment is supposed to be about the teaching methods Paush used and advocated.Randy believed in hands o activities.He believed you learn more from doing then watching and listening.He taught electronic arts.He taught using stage performances which drew huge audiences.The stage performances would involve the audience.
Randy Paush taught his students to be self reflective he used bar graphs to help them see their social standing with there peers.This was also referred to as a feed back loop.This helped the students see what they should work on to be more accepted socially.This showed the students who had worked together what others thought of their demeanor and work ethics.
Randy's classes were advanced technology classes using the most invative technology possible.He taught about virtual reality and the students used it to create virtual worlds.They did this before anyone else really knew the things were possible.He liked to do group work liked to use students learn from each other as well as themselves and him.He liked to collaborate with each other as much as possible.