Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師)

2026年6月26日星期五

Lectures on Chinese Traditional Culture: Yixing (I Ching) Studies and Taoist Education (中國傳統文化之 2026 易學及道化教育講座)

Minda and I attended the public lectures on Chinese Traditional Culture: Yixing (I Ching) Studies and Taoist Education (中國傳統文化之 2026 易學及道化教育講座) on 25^th Jun 2026. Mr. Henry Wong (王廣漢師兄) was the speaker and his presentation topics were “Relishing the Dao: An Interpretation of the Tao Te Ching” and “Entering Taoism through Confucianism: The Hundred-Character Righteous Words and Wun Chuen Taoist Exemplars” (以儒入道之《百字正言》與《雲泉道範》).

Before the lecture, I took a photo with Mr. Henry Wong.

Then Tai Chi team group photo with Mr. Henry Wong.

I Ching classmates also joined together to take photo with Mr. Wong.

And then Mr. Wong received appreciation certificate.

Mr. Henry Wong (王廣漢師兄) started the first topic and introduced the “Tao Te Ching” (道德經).

He quoted the book for which he wrote the preface.

Henry said the most misunderstand of “Tao Te Ching” are in Chapter 2, 25 and 50.

And then he selected some chapters for discussion. In Chapter 2, many people interpreted about Discrimination (分別心) but he interpreted this in view of king and people. In Chapter 25, many people believe that "the Way follows nature," (道法自然) but this may be a misunderstanding of nature, and term of nature in ancient times and now should be different.

After that Mr. Wong quoted different chapters and separated into three parts for discussion and they were the spoken Way (道可道), Self-cultivation (修身) and Politic (政治).

During the discussion, I pointed out some meaning explanation such as One (一) and Big (大) indicate the Way (道). Harmony with the Way is Virtue (合道是德) including thinking and behavior.

Many people would interpret “大器晚成” as “Late bloomer”. But it did not match the context of the chapter 41. Henry suggested to use “免”(no) because those who follow the Way do not care about achievements.

After finished the first topic, Mr. Henry Wong (王廣漢師兄) started the second topic entitled “Entering Taoism through Confucianism: The Hundred-Character Righteous Words and Wun Chuen Taoist Exemplars”.

Then he introduced the hundred-character righteous words including be a person, do right things, set goals and achieve virtue through the Way.

Finally, he introduced the Wun Chuen Taoist Exemplars (《雲泉道範》).

He also briefed the surrounding of Wun Chuen Sin Koon (雲泉仙館).

The chapter "The Great Harmony" from the Confucian classic. It is ideal world.

Lastly, Mr. Wong quoted some Proverbs of Analects (論語箴言) to connect with Virtual elements including benevolence (sentence 1 to 3), righteousness (sentence 4 to 5), propriety (sentence 6 to 7), wisdom (sentence 8 to 9), and trustworthiness (sentence 10) (仁、義、禮、智、信).

After the lecture, we know much more about Taoism.

Reference:

雲泉仙館 - https://www.wunchuen.org.hk/aboutus

20260220: Chinese New Year's greetings to Master Law - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/02/chinese-new-years-greetings-to-master.html

20260208: "Wan Chuen Sin Koon" 54th Inauguration Ceremony of the Board of Directors (雲泉仙館乙巳年酬神晚宴暨第五十四屆值理會就職典禮) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/02/wan-chuen-sin-koon-54th-inauguration.html

20260101: 2026 New Year’s Day Wudang Tai Chi Collective Training (元旦集訓) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026-new-years-day-wudang-tai-chi.html

20250419: Visiting "Wan Chuen Sin Koon" on Easter 2025 (2025年復活節探訪「雲泉仙館」) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/04/visiting-wan-chuen-sin-koon-on-easter.html

2026年6月24日星期三

PolyU EDC Webinar – Designing Assessments in the GenAI Era

PolyU Educational Development Centre (EDC) arranged a webinar entitled “Designing Assessments in the GenAI Era” on 24 Jun 2026. In the beginning, Dr. Dawn Lo briefed the intended learning outcomes (ILO) in the GenAI Era.

Dr. Julia Chen gave an introduction about impacts of GenAI on assessment including academic integrity and trustworthiness. She quoted a study of comparing the maths exam and practice results with and without GenAI practice.

She mentioned the development of GenAI assessment since 2023 and to setup teacher and student GenAI Guidelines. She proposed to make learning visible.

Then Dr. Dawn Lo discussed why we need to rethink and redesign assessment. Assessment is a systematic process of collecting and documenting information about student performance and achievement. She mentioned three purposes of assessment including formative, summative and diagnostic.

The key features of quality assessment included validity, reliability, academic integrity and assessment security.

Dr. Dawn Lo pointed out some challenges associated with students’ use of GenAI in assessment.

After that Mr. Leo Chon discussed six major approaches of embracing GenAI in assessment. Firstly, he stated the approach 1 that from written description to multimodal explanation and application. He asked students to apply what they learn in class to analyze a certain real-life situation that student cannot easily copy the content from GenAI.

And then he demonstrated some examples using multimodal work under green construction technology and video project.

For green construction technology, he proposed to use human insight plus AI insight to do the green design.

In approach 3 from presentation of ideas to defense of views that it needed to redesign oral presentation to give more time for defense.

After that Dr. Dawn Lo discussed approach 6 for assessing GenAI-related competency including knowledge, application, evaluation and AI ethics.

Finally, she concluded to design effective and authentic assessments, educators should align activities with learning outcomes, test tasks using GenAI tools, provide clear student guidelines and regularly review, as well as, update the assessment design.

Reference:

COMP - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/

EDC, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/edc/

20260624: PolyU EDC Workshop – Flipped Learning Signature Showcases - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/06/polyu-edc-workshop-flipped-learning.html

20260511: PolyU EDC Seminar on Future-Proofing Your Career: Thriving in the AI Era - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/05/polyu-edc-seminar-on-future-proofing.html

20240826: PolyU EDC Webinar on GenAI in Learning and Teaching - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/08/polyu-edc-webinar-on-genai-in-learning.html

20240813: PolyU EDC Webinar on Flipping with FLIP - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/08/polyu-edc-webinar-on-flipping-with-flip.html

PolyU EDC Workshop – Flipped Learning Signature Showcases

PolyU Educational Development Centre (EDC) arranged a workshop named “Flipped Learning Signature Showcases” on 24 Jun 2026. Dr. Jeff Tang was the first speaker. In this morning, we had breakfast in staff canteen together.

Then we arrived at the venue and saw a poster area outside.

Before start, we selfie with Dr. Raymond Pang.

And then Dr. Richard Lui also arrived.

Dr. Jeff Tang was the first speaker and his topic entitled “A Gamified Flipped Learning Platform for Human-Computer Interaction courses with RAG-Based Tutor Support”.

In his self-introduction, he introduced his metaverse identity.

Then, Dr. Jeff Tang gave a brief introduction to "What is Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)?"

After that he mentioned different pain point of learning HCI with different background students.

Fitts's law is a predictive model of human movement that he employed for design or application.

Finally, he introduced the gamified web-based learning platform for HCI concepts.

Inside the game, he employed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as AI tutor in the game.

Lastly, he concluded that they developed and successfully piloted a gamified, RAG-enabled web platform for flipped learning in HCI, with plans to expand its features and conduct a larger-scale evaluation to establish it as a reusable model for other abstract computing subjects.

Jeff’s capstone project team members were showed at the end.

And then we visited the posted area and saw low-altitude economy for flipped learning.

Another one related to academic integrity and ethics in business.

In this afternoon, we had lunch with Dr. YC Chau and Dr. Vincent Fung.

Reference:

COMP - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/

EDC, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/edc/

20260511: PolyU EDC Seminar on Future-Proofing Your Career: Thriving in the AI Era - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/05/polyu-edc-seminar-on-future-proofing.html

20240826: PolyU EDC Webinar on GenAI in Learning and Teaching - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/08/polyu-edc-webinar-on-genai-in-learning.html

20240813: PolyU EDC Webinar on Flipping with FLIP - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/08/polyu-edc-webinar-on-flipping-with-flip.html

2026年6月21日星期日

Visit PolyU Design Show 2026 in Father's Day

The PolyU Design Show 2026 started from 5 Jun to 7 Aug 2026 in Jockey Club Innovation Tower. Today is the Father’s Day, I visited the Show and then had lunch with Father-in-law family on 21 Jun 2026.

The Show as a key highlight of Hong Kong’s creative calendar brings together works by nearly 400 students from the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes of PolyU Design. This year, the Show features capstone projects for advanced works from interdisciplinary taught postgraduate programmes, real client collaborations, and Integrated Designpreneurship projects including commercial realities, community needs, and pressing environmental, economic, and social challenges.