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21 Jan 2011

 

Professor Anne Watson - CANOTTA Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Faculty of Education, HKU
How can we teach classes of diverse learners the core ideas of mathematics? This is a question that has puzzled teachers for decades and various solutions have been proposed. In the lecture, the nature of diversity in prior knowledge, ways of seeing mathematics, and choices about ways to work will first be explored and see how this affects our responses to tasks. Then, how teaching can be designed to take account of these differences, but yet enable all students to engage with mathematics will be discussed. By the end, a stronger understanding of how task design and pedagogy interact to enable all to learn mathematical ideas will be developed. Professor Anne Watson, Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Oxford, is an expert in the teaching and research on how teachers can work with diversity and yet develop strong mathematical engagement and thinking.

Date:  January 22, 2011 (Saturday)
Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 noon
Venue: LG06, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, The University of Hong Kong

For media enquiries, please contact Ms. Queenie Wong, Development and Communications Manager, Faculty of Education, HKU (Tel: 2219 4270 mobile: 9220 5840  / fax: 2540 6360 / email: qlpwong@hku.hk).

Privacy Regulations in the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into an information network. Services are available to interact with the "smart objects" over the Internet. The implementation of the IoT architecture and the use of RFID raise a number of legal questions related to the privacy of the concerned persons: (i) Is there a need for additional (international and/or national) laws or self-regulations in order to improve privacy? (ii) Which new issues need to be tackled in view of the technological challenges posed by the IoT? (iii) If new laws are needed, which kinds of laws are required and what is the time frame for their implementation? Several approaches do exist, however, the chances and challenges are to be discussed in more detail, for example related to a right-to-know-legislation, a prohibition-legislation or an IT-security legislation. The Speaker Professor Rolf H. Weber is Visiting Research Professor of HKU Faculty of Law.

Date: January 24, 2011 (Monday)
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Venue: Room LG104,  LG1 Floor, KK Leung Building, HKU
Language: English

For further information, please visit: http://www.law.hku.hk/

For enquiries, please contact Cecilia Man by email at cman@hku.hk

Sovereign Immunity and the Basic Law: Implications of FG Hemisphere Associates (the Congo Case) for Hong Kong
On February 10, 2010, the Court of Appeal (by majority) found that the international rule of restrictive immunity continued to apply in Hong Kong, notwithstanding that the rule of absolute immunity may be applicable to Mainland China. The Court of Final Appeal will consider the case in March 2011, and, before it can adjudicate, it may need for the first time a certifying document from the Central People's Government or an interpretation of the Basic Law from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. In this panel discussion, legal academics in the Centre for Comparative and Public Law will consider and debate the legal and wider implications of the case from the perspectives of constitutional law, public international law, the reception of international law in Hong Kong's domestic law, and business law.

Panel Discussion
Chair: Simon Young, Associate Professor and CCPL Director
Panelists:
- Douglas Arner, Professor and AIIFL Director
- Tony Carty, Sir YK Pao Chair Professor in Public Law
- Albert Chen, Chan Professor in Constitutional Law
- Oliver Jones, Assistant Professor

Date: January 28, 2011 (Friday)
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Venue: Convocation Room (Room 218), 2/F Main Bldg, HKU
Language: English

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