This New Method of Teaching Physics Changes EVERYTHING! w/ Eric Mazur [Ep. 428]

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Imagine walking into a classroom where the students are the ones driving the discussion. Where curiosity and collaboration have replaced rote memorization. A place where traditional education has been turned on its head, and the power of learning is placed directly in the hands of those who seek it. It's almost hard to imagine such a classroom after having studied in our current education system, right? But today’s guest on Into the Impossible has turned this unlikely fantasy into a reality by developing an active learning system that engages students rather than just lecturing them. Meet Eric Mazur, physicist, educator, and mastermind behind peer instruction. Eric is a professor of physics and applied physics at Harvard University, and today, he’s here to discuss the past, present, and future of our education system. Tune in! Key Takeaways: 00:00 Intro 01:02 What is peer instruction? 10:54 Are professors necessary in the classroom? 17:37 Are lectures an effective way to teach? 23:39 Using technology in the classroom 28:11 Hiring good teachers and professors 31:41 The problem with grading 36:56 Tenure system in academia 41:36 Which subjects would Eric make compulsory 44:41 Outro — Additional resources: 📝 Get one month of Snipd Premium for free with this link: https://get.snipd.com/Cx7S/brianSnipd Snipd lets you take Smart Notes 🧠 with AI 💡 — it’s my favorite podcast player 😀 ! ➡️ Connect with Eric Mazur: 💻 Website: http://ericmazur.com/ ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/eric_mazur/ ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/ 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Imagine walking into a classroom where the students are the ones driving the discussion,
0:06.0	where curiosity and collaboration have replaced rote memorization,
0:12.0	a place where traditional education has been turned on its head
0:16.2	and the power of learning is placed directly in the hands of those who seek it.
0:21.4	Today's guest on Into The Impossible has turned this fantasy
0:24.0	into a reality. Meet the one and only Eric Maser. A pioneer whose radical
0:29.2	approach to education is not only changing the way we learn, but also the way we think, collaborate, and succeed.
0:37.0	In this thought-provoking conversation, we explore the past, present, and future of education, with an emphasis on peer instruction and artificial intelligence. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:58.0	Open the pod bay doors now.
1:02.0	So let's go right into it and talk about peer instruction.
1:06.0	I am going to be teaching a cosmology class,
1:10.0	which I've taught on and off for 20 years
1:12.0	as a professor here at UC San Diego and I've never felt I've done a great job I get decent reviews but I always feel like it could be better I always leave feeling I'm disappointed, I've failed, and I always, you know, think back that really education hasn't changed much in a thousand years. And so how does peer instruction, you know, potentially provide a benefit for educators like me and for the students that are listening?
1:37.5	We have hundreds of thousands of students that listen to this pocket.
1:40.0	So how can peer instruction help me and help them?
1:42.5	Well, maybe we should first explain what peer instruction is,
1:45.5	because I'm not assuming that everybody knows, right?
1:48.8	My background is not very dissimilar to yours.
1:52.0	When I joined the faculty here 40 years ago, believe it or not,
1:57.0	and I was asked to teach the large intro physics course,
2:00.0	I didn't know any better than lecturing. You know I had been lectured and I sort of very
2:06.8	naively assumed oh you know that's how I learned physics and that's how I will teach. You know the question about how I should teach
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