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AKjDPG: Arbeitsgruppe junge DPG

AKjDPG 1: Data Literacy in the Physics Curriculum (joint session AGI/AKjDPG)

AKjDPG 1.3: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 23, 2023, 12:00–12:30, ZEU/0148

News from PUNCH4NFDI: Education of students — •Carsten Burgard and Kevin Kröninger for the PUNCH4NFDI Consortium collaboration — TU Dortmund

The consortium Particles, Universe, NuClei and Hadrons (PUNCH) for the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) joins forces of about 9000 scientists from various institutions to establish and promote a "FAIR" science data platform. One part of this initiative is to improve and develop the way we teach data literacy skills as part of the physics curriculum. Modern physicists are expected to have the required excellent data science skills. For this reason, a corresponding discussion must already take place during their studies. This results in a complex task for educators: staying up to speed with all that modern data science has to offer, while striking a balance with other important and demanding topics covered as part of a physics curriculum. Meeting these challenges requires educators of all types to coordinate, invent and exchange ideas on best practices in the field. One first step towards this goal is a detailed assessment and evaluation of existing strategies and methods. We at PUNCH4NFDI conducted a survey to get an overview. Collecting insights on what types of approaches exist and how they are received by the educators and the target audience alike will help to inform the future strategy and motivate advancing data literacy education in the context of physics curricula.