With the popularity of the Internet among teenagers, more and more parents are as worried as Shuai Zhiqing. However, a recent survey released by the Center for Media Communication and Adolescent Development of China Academy of Social Sciences shows that surfing the Internet is beneficial to most children and does not affect their studies. Moreover, young netizens communicate more with their parents and have more friends, and their desire to participate in society is stronger than that of non-netizens.
Researcher Bu Wei, the moderator of this survey, said that it can even be said that for most teenagers who surf the Internet, the advantages of surfing the Internet outweigh the disadvantages.
"It's not what people think. As long as you are online or online for a long time, it will affect your study." Bu Wei said. According to the survey data, there is little difference in the proportion of netizens among teenagers whose academic achievements belong to the lower middle class, the middle class, the upper middle class and the upper class respectively. Two-thirds of teenagers with excellent grades surf the Internet, the highest proportion, and the lowest proportion of teenagers with lower middle class, 58.5%. Surfing the Internet does not occupy teenagers' time to do their homework. The average time for teenagers to do their homework every day in a week is 150 minutes, while that for non-netizens is 144 minutes. Similarly, teenagers spend more time in extra-long classes or cram schools than non-netizens.
The survey also shows that for most online game teenagers, surfing the Internet has not reduced their time to communicate with their families, and the proportion of online game teenagers discussing social issues, heterosexual friends, online use and other topics with their parents is significantly higher than that of non-online game teenagers.
In addition, the survey also found that the longer the Internet is used, the stronger the desire of young netizens to participate in society. They said "they know more about society", "they are more willing to express their views on society or schools", "they are more willing to communicate with people with different views" and "they are more willing to participate in social activities".
Although the survey has accurate data, some people still disagree with its conclusion. A young teacher who works for students in a university in Beijing said that his biggest headache now is how to keep students away from the internet and games. Internet addiction has made many college students neglect their studies. He believes that many adults have lost self-control in front of the Internet and computer games, not to mention teenage students.
Sun Yunxiao, deputy director of China Youth Research Center, said that among the college students who were expelled from universities all over the world, a considerable number were internet addicts who were addicted to virtual space-time. Among the teenagers who consulted him, a college student was expelled from Peking University because he was addicted to online games and neglected his studies.
However, some education experts believe that the root cause of some children's online learning is not the internet, but the problems in their real life.
"The impact of the network on people varies from person to person. Those children who are unsuccessful in their studies, reprimanded by teachers or lack of friends are easy to indulge in the virtual online world; It will not have much impact on children who are successful in life. " Sun Yunxiao said that those college students who are obsessed with the Internet often get good grades because they study hard before going to college, but after going to college, they become tired of learning, or are used to being controlled since childhood, and suddenly lose their restraint after leaving their parents, leading to a sharp decline in their academic performance. "Making children successful in life is the key to resisting bad information." Sun Yunxiao said.
In this survey, Bu Wei also found that children who can make friends normally, live normally and have a healthy living environment are generally not affected by surfing the Internet. On the contrary, abnormal children tend to be obsessed with the Internet, and they use the Internet to play games to escape from reality. "For these children, without the Internet, they will also be addicted to video games, TV or other things."
Bu Wei believes that children may be influenced by the internet, but this influence is not isolated. It is closely related to children's physical and mental development, self-awareness and feelings about the environment. Parents should be good at discovering the obstacles their children encounter in life, study and communication, helping their children achieve success and happiness in real life and establishing an equal family culture, which will largely avoid the negative impact of the Internet. "Parents should not only care about whether their children are online, but should fully care about their children's growth and development process. This is the fundamental problem. "
Bu Wei advocates "network literacy education" in China, which aims to cultivate children's ability to approach and use the Internet, analyze Internet information, evaluate websites and their information, and creatively use the Internet. This kind of education is not only for teenagers but also for parents. If parents do not have the corresponding network literacy, they cannot educate their children. Parents pay attention to and guide their children to use the Internet, which is the most effective way to ensure their children's safety, and also enable them to benefit more from the Internet. In the United States, many institutions carry out online literacy education by distributing parent manuals. "In general, this kind of education is the most effective way." Bu Wei said.