Details
Date |
7 May 2024 (Tue) |
|---|---|
Time |
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
Venue |
Online through Zoom |
Speaker |
Professor TSUI Lik Hang2023 UGC Teaching Awardee (Early Career Faculty Members)Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Chinese and HistoryCity University of Hong Kong |
Moderator |
Professor XU GuandongChair Professor of Artificial IntelligenceDirector, University Research Facility of Data Science & Artificial IntelligenceDirector, Centre for Learning, Teaching and TechnologyThe Education University of Hong Kong |
Target |
Staff and postgraduate students |
Languages |
English |
Participation in this seminar can be counted towards the Certificate Course “Introduction to Teaching in Higher Education” under the theme, “Learning and Teaching Seminars/Workshops”.
Abstract
Chinese history learning normally takes place in the classroom where students are required to read, interpret, and discuss historical texts under the instructor’s supervision. However, in today’s digital era, information is readily available at our students’ fingertips and the practices for learning history should be enriched. This talk argues that incorporating digital skills for the humanities could be key to reigniting interest in history. The use of digital tools, particularly online text repositories for premodern China such as CTEXT and collaboration annotation tools such as Hypothesis could enable students to gain full access to digitized historical sources and at the same time participate in exchanges and debates. The talk will also discuss ideas about enhancing history education through integrating chatbots, thereby creating a more interactive learning space as well as promoting reflective information literacy and the revamping of text-based assignments in AI-powered environments. Striving to bring history to life through rich data and dynamic interactivity, these teaching approaches should help to shatter preconceptions of history as a dull subject.
Speaker
Professor TSUI Lik Hang
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chinese and History,
City University of Hong Kong
Lik Hang Tsui is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and History of the City University of Hong Kong. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Peking University and obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford.He specializes in middle period Chinese history and culture, as well as the digital humanities. For his teaching he was awarded Hong Kong’s2023 UGC Teaching Award (Early Career Faculty Members) and the CityU Teaching Excellence Award. He is currently completing a book on epistolary culture in middle period China and planning another one about digital humanities in China. For his research he received accolades from the International Convention of Asia Scholars and a New Researcher Award from his College in CityU. He also convenes the Digital Society research cluster there to promote interdisciplinary research.
