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Mazur Clip 3

Faculty and student up at white board; student writing

Topics Covered

Questioning, listening and responding; Eliciting participation; Making thinking visible; valuing and responding to student questions; classroom climate; using the board/overhead

  • Instructor: Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
  • Student Group: Undergraduate
  • School: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • Course: Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering
  • Clip Length: 2 minutes, 51 seconds (40:00-42:51)

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Instructional Themes

Questioning, listening and responding; Eliciting participation; Making thinking visible; valuing and responding to student questions; classroom climate; using the board/overhead

Instructor

Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics

Student Group

Undergraduate

School

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Course

Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering

Clip Length

2 minutes, 51 seconds (40:00-42:51)

Clip Context

  • “AP50: Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering,” an undergraduate course at Harvard College with 60 students enrolled. 
  • This course is a yearlong, team- and project-based introduction to physics. In the course, Mazur assigns students to small groups and challenges them to solve real-life problems using physics concepts.
  • This clip comes 40 minutes into the 97-minute class session as Mazur takes two student questions while going over the response to the problem he posed to the class.