Guide to Teaching Data Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach

ISBN-13: 9783031247576 / Angielski

Koby Mike

Opis

Data science is a new field that touches on almost every domain of our lives, and thus it is taught in a variety of environments. Accordingly, the book is suitable for teachers and lecturers in all educational frameworks: K-12, academia and industry.This book aims at closing a significant gap in the literature on the pedagogy of data science. While there are many articles and white papers dealing with the curriculum of data science (i.e., what to teach?), the pedagogical aspect of the field (i.e., how to teach?) is almost neglected. At the same time, the importance of the pedagogical aspects of data science increases as more and more programs are currently open to a variety of people.
This book provides a variety of pedagogical discussions and specific teaching methods and frameworks, as well as includes exercises, and guidelines related to many data science concepts (e.g., data thinking and the data science workflow), main machine learning algorithms and concepts (e.g., KNN, SVM, Neural Networks, performance metrics, confusion matrix, and biases) and data science professional topics (e.g., ethics, skills and research approach).
Professor Orit Hazzan is a faculty member at the Technion’s Department of Education in Science and Technology since October 2000. Her research focuses on computer science, software engineering and data science education. Within this framework, she studies the cognitive and social processes on the individual, the team and the organization levels, in all kinds of organizations.Dr. Koby Mike is a Ph.D. graduate from the Technion's Department of Education in Science and Technology under the supervision of Professor Orit Hazzan. He continued his post-doc research on data science education at the Bar-Ilan University, and obtained a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Spis treści

Part A - Overview of Data Science and Data Science Education

1. Introduction

a. How to use this book

b. Chapter overviews

2. What is data science

3. Introduction to data science education

a. Curriculum initiatives

b. Data science education research

4. Data science thinking

a. Computational thinking

b. Statistical thinking

c. Data thinking

d. Data literacy

Part B - Challenges of Data Science Education

5. The pedagogical challenge of data science education

6. Data science education and the variety of learners

a. Data science as 21st century skills

b. Prerequisite knowledge for data science

c. Data science for K-12

d. Data science for undergraduates

e. Data science for researchers: graduate students

f. Data science for researchers: senior researchers

g. Data science for industry

7. The interdisciplinarity challenge

a. Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity

b. Integration of the data domain

c. Interdisciplinary pedagogy

d. Interdisciplinary PCK (Pedagogical Content Knowledge)

e. Interdisciplinary PBL (Project Based Learning)

8. Data science skills

a. Professional skills

b. Soft skills

c. Research skills

Part C - Data science Teaching frameworks

9. Teacher Preparation - the Method for Teaching Data Science course

10. Data Science for Social Science

a. Interdisciplinary CS1

b. Machine learning for social science and digital humanities

11. Conclusion

O autorze

Professor Orit Hazzan is a faculty member at the Technion’s Department of Education in Science and Technology since October 2000. Her research focuses on computer science, software engineering and data science education. Within this framework she researches cognitive and social processes on the individual, the team and the organization levels, in all kinds of organizations. She has published about 130 papers in professional refereed journals and conference proceedings, and seven books. In 2007-2010 she chaired the High School Computer Science Curriculum Committee assigned by the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 2011-2015 Hazzan was the faculty Dean. From 2017 to 2019, Hazzan served the Technion Dean of Undergraduate Studies. 

Dr. Koby Mike is a Ph.D. graduate from the Technion's Department of Education in Science and Technology under the supervision of Professor Orit Hazzan. He continued his a post-doc research on data science education at the Bar-Ilan University, and retains B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University. After two decades of professional career is the Israeli hi-tech industry, he returned to academia for his doctoral studies on data science education. As part of is research, Koby developed and taught several data science programs for high school students, high school computer science teachers, and graduate students and researchers in social sciences and digital humanities.