Professor touched the world with "Last Lecture" ASCD SmartBrief | 08/04/2008 Shortly after Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch, 47, learned he had just months to live, he delivered a lecture that has inspired millions. "If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you," he said in the Sept. 18, 2007, standing room-only lecture that has been viewed by millions on YouTube, transformed into a best-selling book and condensed for Oprah viewers. "I'm dying, and I'm having fun," Pausch said in his lecture. Pausch died Friday at his home in Chesapeake, Va. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo Jan We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. -Robert Shaffer> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:41:44 -0600> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Measuring understanding> > Okay, Mike - now for the third time tonight I've been brought to tears by something on a listserve. Is that a bad sign or a good sign? I just ordered The Last Lecture. Never should have listened to that interview teaser with Diane Sawyer.> > esponse. They are loved by some and hated by many. Many> otherwise wonderful teachers assign them over and over in the hopes of> raising "test scores." If only we can teach kids how to conform to a> formula for answering them, surely we will have proven comprehension.> Right? Answer the question, provide text support, extend your answer.> Repeat over and over until kids think they are doing the real work of> readers and writers and very likely hate to read AND write.> > By the way, thank you, Jennifer, for the friendly encouragement to stretch.> I can feel you right there beside me. You are an inspiration and I couldn't> thank you enough. One day, before I die, I hope to instill those feelings> in others. Which makes me think of a book I just finished (never should> have waited so long) The Last Lecture, by Pausch. Now I have 3 books to> read over and over until the cover disintegrates. The Hobbit (the cover is> long, long gone), To Understand (pages are already falling out - maybe it's> a bad idea to fall asleep with it out in a thunderstorm after reading into> the wee hours of the night?), The Last Lecture (just finished, but will have> to revisit - so many life lessons in such a short text).> > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Beverlee Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:> > > What I think is that I've tried and tried to figure out what BCRs are, and> > I'm coming up blank!!> > > Mike Schul> 1st Grade> NBCT '08 Literacy> _______________________________________________> Mosaic mailing list> [email protected]> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.> > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _________________________________________________________________> Got Game? Win Prizes in the Windows Live Hotmail Mobile Summer Games Trivia Contest> http://www.gowindowslive.com/summergames?ocid=TXT_TAGHM> _______________________________________________> Mosaic mailing list> [email protected]> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.> > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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