PolyU COMP 50th Anniversary Special Talk by Prof. Binxing FANG

PolyU COMP 50th Anniversary Special Talk named “Fangban Seminar Hall: An innovative teaching model” (方班研討廳: 一種創新的教學模式) by Prof. Binxing FANG was organized by Department of Computing, PolyU on 12^th Sep 2024. In the beginning, Prof. Li Qing introduced speaker’s background and topic. 

Firstly, Prof. Binxing briefed his topic named “Fangban Seminar Hall: The Specific Practice of Feynman Learning Method” (方班研討廳: 費曼學習法的具體實踐). And introduced Feynmen background.

He then mentioned the learning retention rate of passive learning and active learning, showing the learning pyramid.

The core of Feynman learning method was discussed.

After that Prof. Fang introduced his Fangban Seminar Hall also called “Innovation and Speculation” (創新與思辨).

Finally, he briefed the concept of the proposed course and four key steps including speaking familiar subject, digested the knowledge, standing on a giant for research and then innovating from question. Prof. Fang said the most important is entropy decreased (熵減). Student digested knowledge and organized it for presentation so as to decrease the entropy.

Lastly, Prof. Fang briefed five important parts and they were topic selection, preparation, reporting, conclusion and verification.

Before the end of seminar, Prof. Li, Prof. Fang and Prof. Cao took a photo together for celebrating the 50^th Anniversary of the department.

Reference

方班研讨厅简介 - https://wyy.gzhu.edu.cn/fbxb/fbytt1.htm