calendar_today Date: 30 & 31 August 2023
schedule Time: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
location_on Venue: C-LP-06 (STEM Innovation Hub)
record_voice_over Speaker: Mr. Pazu YAU
class Moderator: Dr. SO Chi Fuk Henry
Associate Director, Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology
Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology,
The Education University of Hong Kong
language Language: English
person Target: All staff and postgraduate students
Participation in these workshops can be counted towards the Certificate Course “Introduction to Teaching in Higher Education” under the theme, “Learning and Teaching Support”.

30 August 2023 @2:30-4:30pm

C-LP-06 (STEM Innovation Hub)

Workshop I. Implementing AI Solutions for Academic Settings
Introduction of AI tools for beginners, focusing on free-to-use ones available in Hong Kong to provide a comprehensive exposure to a range of AI tools.

Topics to be covered:
1. AI hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs)
2. AI-powered writing for daily works
3. Language understanding and translation in comparison with other machine translation services
4. Plagiarism detection and false-positive mitigation
5. AI image generation
6. AI-optimized search engines usable in Hong Kong
7. AI-powered transcription: generating subtitles for videos and audios offline
8. Goal-oriented AI usage in daily life

31 August 2023 @2:30-4:30pm

C-LP-06 (STEM Innovation Hub)

Workshop II. Personal Cybersecurity: Safeguarding Your Digital Life
Introduction of prevalent cybersecurity threats and providing practical suggestions to safeguard one’s digital existence.

Topics to be covered:
1. Introduction to common cybersecurity threats
2. Understanding cybersecurity at personal level
3. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
4. Password management
5. Secured email and messenger practices
6. Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
7. End-to-end encryption
8. Disposable email addresses
9. Data backup and recovery