An Essay On The Head Fake By Randy Pausch

Urban Legends: a story, usually horrific, which uses pieces of history and information to create a story which is circulated through several generations and cultures. The person telling an urban legend more likely than not has heard the story from someone else. Urban legends are passed down from parents, grandparents, friends, siblings etc... The story has been morphed so many times over the years that the true story behind the legend has been lost in the web of its new versions. Although terrifying and good stories to tell, urban legends, such as Head on a Stick, have many loose ends to them and if picked apart, the aspects of ethos, pathos and logos can be used to show the truth behind them.

Do you ever find yourself wondering how you can form a better connection with your students? You are not alone. In her book, Bad Guys Don’t Have Birthdays, Vivian Paley looks for ways to improve her teaching methods and connect with the children in her class. After coming in contact with a school director that was a fan of promoting abstract thinking, Paley noticed that she was neglecting to take her students’ ideas into consideration and in many instances, focusing more on what she knew to be the answer rather than how her class solved the problem. To change her teaching style, Paley thought it would be better to immerse herself in the many different perspectives of her preschool class rather than presuming that she understands

All the videos reflected in the following essay are full of accurate and original thoughts of brilliant people. TED Talks is a great project and I strongly believe that future of education and online learning belongs to it. Though all the videos have been picked by chance almost all of them happened to be somehow connected to the different view and concept of originality. Speaking differently it may be said that some of the videos are concentrated on presenting things in different light and from different perspectives for the matter of better understanding of this things.

“Brick walls are there for a reason. They’re not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” This was the mantra Randy Pausch lived by in his terminating life. In his book, which I learned the quote from, he talked about many challenges he overcame throughout his life. The largest obstacle I have had to overcome is the challenge of being a part of many extracurricular activities while maintaining above average grades in my rigorous schedule throughout the years.

Because it is the teacher’s job to guide the students through the course, I thought it would make sense that the teacher first allows students to learn what the content is through Bloom’s levels of remembering and understanding and then move onto evaluating and creating, where students can learn even more and determine what is real and what is not.

This was by far the most challenging course that I have encountered while obtaining my Master’s Degree in Educational Technology from UCMO. That is not a negative comment as this course has actually impacted me professionally more than any other course I’ve taken to date. This course has taken more time to complete the assignments, more of my attention to detail, and more of my creativity. The last point was the best part about this course. I consider myself to be fairly creative and this course definitely allowed me to do that while bringing my somewhat odd personality to a professional forum. For this I am grateful. Let’s get to the good stuff, shall we?

In summary, this course has really educated my view of being a teacher as well as being able to interact with today’s diverse and fluctuating educational setting. Therefore, the discussions were very good ways in understanding how

Great advice can change a life forever. In the speech “Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” by Randy Pausch, his good advice can change someone's life for the better and can have a positive impact on life. Pausch talks about his life and the struggles he faced throughout his life. He talks about the hardships of life as well as the remarkable moments worth remembering and the inspirational moments. Great advice can change a life forever.

Randy Pausch being put down with bad news all the time what can you do to bring you up you let go and face reality there is nothing you can do to fix it but hope for the best but even that is not enough to be satisfying in today life but what can you do there not a lot you can do to fix your problem but you can try with the time you have left to be close to your family but with Randy he decided to make a presentation instead of focusing on his family and he wrote a great book telling his live to his kids and the world show how he became to be the man that once had everything he can wish for turn around now has nothing in this world. He now losing everything little by little it’s sad to go down like this when you have kids that will not remember

I couldn’t imagine going through the same situation as Randy Pausch, it’s possibly the hardest thing to hear. With that in mind, I would have to try to make the best out of it; like Paucsh said “You have to decide whether you are a Tigger or Eyeore. With strength and pain I would try my best to always be the fun-loving Tigger in my last moments. My decision would be to spend my last moments doing what I love with the people who are closest to me. The memories that you make will over power having all the materialistic things in the world.

Captivating the attention of a room full of teenagers is no easy feat, but one I believe Preinitz accomplished through his implementation of various mediums of media in his lecture. Every fact delivered to us was supported by text, picture or video on the slideshow he presented, but a tactic of his I found most interesting was that he oftentimes would supply us with textless media, allow us to interpret it, then offer an in-depth explanation, forcing us to use our brains rather than robotically copying down information without absorbing it.

Like Randy Pausch, we had childhood dreams. He wanted to be a NFL football player. I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. However, despite our differences both of our childhood dreams and goals have changed.

did not keep him down, but gave him the desire to make use of his

One aspect of my lesson that I felt went well in the implementation of my lesson was the information being grasped by the learners. Before I began my lesson, I asked the learners some questions about the fun phonics letter. I started off by asking the children if they knew what the fun phonic letter for the week was, then I asked them to tell me some words that begins with the letter “Dd”. Next, I read a story called “Harry the dirty dog”. Throughout the story I asked some questions to keep the learners engaged. I asked them questions like “what words that begins with the letter “Dd” did you hear?” I can tell they were engaged because their answers were never off topic. The learners were so excited about the end result of their letter “Dd”

Understanding cognition and how we learn is essential in the developmental stages of children. Not all students learn in the same way, understanding the cognitive process will assist in the development of the students. By modifying my approach when giving instructions I have noticed growth in current students that I am working with. Using concrete materials and giving the opportunity for students to be involved in hands-on activities on a daily basis, is essential in making new material meaningful to learners.. The knowledge gained from this topic has increased my understanding and is benefiting the children I am currently