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His most recent newsletter spotlights an awesome lecture by Randy Pausch
that I'm watching right now. Yes, I'm both laughing and crying.
~julz
A Last Lecture: Randy Pausch Video Game Professor - Carnegie Mellon.
Here is a touching, moving and bittersweet item for us in the learning
field:
http://www.masieweb.com/lasttalk
There is a trend to ask thought leaders to present a "Last Lecture" at
colleges, delivering the presentation they would do, if it were the last
one in their lives.
However, Randy Pausch's was quite different. Randy is one of the pioneers
in Video Game Education and a professor at Carnegie Mellon. He was asked
to present a "Last Lecture" Here is the report from the Wall Street
Journal about this talk:
"Dr. Pausch's speech was more than just an academic exercise. The
46-year-old father of three has pancreatic cancer and expects to live for
just a few months. His lecture, using images on a giant screen, turned out
to be a rollicking and riveting journey through the lessons of his life.
He began by showing his CT scans, revealing 10 tumors on his liver. But
after that, he talked about living. If anyone expected him to be morose,
he said, "I'm sorry to disappoint you." He then dropped to the floor and
did one-handed pushups."
"He paid tribute to his techie background. "I've experienced a deathbed
conversion," he said, smiling. "I just bought a Macintosh." Flashing his
rejection letters on the screen, he talked about setbacks in his career,
repeating: "Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how
badly we want things." He encouraged us to be patient with others. "Wait
long enough, and people will surprise and impress you." After showing
photos of his childhood bedroom, decorated with mathematical notations
he'd drawn on the walls, he said: "If your kids want to paint their
bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it."
"While displaying photos of his bosses and students over the years, he
said that helping others fulfill their dreams is even more fun than
achieving your own. He talked of requiring his students to create
videogames without sex and violence. "You'd be surprised how many
19-year-old boys run out of ideas when you take those possibilities away,
but they all rose to the challenge."
"He then spoke about his legacy. Considered one of the nation's foremost
teachers of videogame and virtual-reality technology, he helped develop
"Alice," a Carnegie Mellon software project that allows people to easily
create 3-D animations. It had one million downloads in the past year, and
usage is expected to soar."
A short video report on the speech is available at:
http://www.masieweb.com/lasttalk
The complete speech is available here:
http://www.etc.cmu.edu/global_news/?q=node/42
If you were to give your Last Talk, what would it be? I'd love to hear
from you about this at emasie@maasie.
Thanks to John Abele, our colleague and MASIE Learning Fellow, for passing
this on to us.
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