Media hypes affecting physics teaching and a crisis in particle physics?

Today, I would like to share with the readers two interesting, physics education-related topics that have attracted my interest over the course of the last few days. 

Five ways of improving the learning experience for physics students

Prior to launching this blog I had written down numerous bullet points related to topics in physics teaching that I would deem important. In today's post, based on five selected points I would like to discuss how we could improve the learning experience for physics students by implementing changes in the physics curriculum, course syllabi, and teaching methods. Clearly, most the ideas can be traced back to my time as a postdoctoral research in the United States. 

Artificial intelligence and other novel technologies in physics education

We are living in a time of significant technological advances and breakthroughs. Increasing computational power facilitates extensive numerical simulations of material physics, astronomical objects such as black holes, weather and climate phenomena, and the dynamics of a global pandemic that we have been going through for a couple of years. Artificial intelligence based chatbots such as ChatGPT by OpenAI appear to have a disruptive impact on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Data science and big data are more established concepts that have already found their way into academic research as well as industrial applications. Quantum computing and brain-inspired computer chips are further examples of potentially disruptive technologies. Virtual reality and the so-called metaverse are expected to become increasingly sophisticated and relevant, too.