The pros and cons of using the Internet for middle school students

Question raised

When we step into the online society today, we find that there are many points of convergence between young people and the Internet. These points of convergence make young people have a "deep love" for the Internet. Under the influence of the Internet, young people are in various forms and have shown many of their splendors to the society, which is also surprising. However, the disgraceful performance of many young netizens cannot bring glory to society in any way, and it cannot let people sit back and relax.

Content 1: Characteristics of Internet use by young users

1. When users started using the Internet: About 80% of users started using the Internet in 1999 or 2000, and most of them are of younger Internet age. long. The specific distribution is as follows: before 1997, it accounted for 6.3%; in 1998, it accounted for 14.0%; in 1999, it accounted for 36.20%; in 2000, it accounted for 43.50%.

2. Internet access location: 58.8% of teenage users access the Internet at home, 31.5% of users access the Internet at the homes of relatives and friends, and 20.45% of users access the Internet at Internet cafes, coffee shops or electronic game arcades. %, 15.0% use the Internet at their parents’ or other people’s offices, and 10.8% use the Internet at school.

3. Estimation of Internet time and satisfaction with Internet time: Teenage users spend an average of about 212 minutes online per week, and if averaged to a daily basis, it is about 30 minutes. 37.0% of users believe that their online time is "just right", 12.0% of users think that "more is enough", and only 0.7% think that "it is too much". 31.7% of users think it is “relatively few”, and 18.5% of teenage users think it is “too few”. In other words, 50% of teenage users are not satisfied with the time they spend online.

4. Use of Internet functions: 62% for playing games; 54.5% for using chat rooms; 48.6% for sending and receiving emails; 39.7% for downloading and storing web pages; and 39.7% for using search engines. Accounting for 25.0%; subscribing to news accounted for 21.9%; Internet phone calls accounted for 14.7%; online paging accounted for 14.3%; creating and updating personal web pages accounted for 12.6%; uploading files accounted for 9.4%; Bulletin boards (BBS) accounted for 9.2%; proxy servers accounted for 2.3%.

5. The needs of users and non-users for the Internet; users have the highest proportion of choosing "getting more news" as the most important need, with an average value of 3.81 (full score is 5 points, the same below). The following order is: "Satisfy personal hobbies" is 3.74; "Improve the learning efficiency of the course" is 3.71; "Extracurricular study and research on interesting issues" is 3.67; "Make new friends" is 3.65 . The least important need is "enjoying adult freedom", with a mean value of 2.8l.

Content 2 The influence of the Internet

1 The positive influence of the Internet

1. The Internet helps to innovate the means and methods of ideological education for young people. By using the Internet to carry out moral education, educators can communicate with teenagers on an equal basis with their true mentalities as netizens without any scruples. This is important for moral education workers to understand and accurately understand the thoughts of teenagers and carry out positive guidance and comprehensive Direction communication provides a new and fast method. In addition, due to the real-time and interactive characteristics of the dissemination of network information, young people can maintain rapid interaction with multiple educators or educational information at the same time, thereby increasing the frequency of ideological interaction and improving educational effects; because network information is downloadable, Delay features such as storability can extend the time for ideological interaction between the educator and the educated, providing "all-weather" ideological guidance and education for young people. You can also meet online and gather offline to nourish and supplement online moral education work, thereby resolving conflicts in a timely manner, warming people's hearts, mobilizing enthusiasm, and stimulating creativity.

2. Provides a new channel for knowledge and learning.

At present, when our country's educational resources cannot meet the demand, the Internet provides a vast campus for knowledge and learning. Learners can receive higher education at any time and anywhere, learn all courses studied by college students, complete credits, and obtain Bachelor of Science. This is undoubtedly the best relief for young people in the examination-oriented education system. It is not only beneficial to their physical and mental health development, but also beneficial to the stability of their families and even society.

3. Expand young people’s global vision and improve their overall quality. Internet access broadens young people's political horizons and knowledge, thereby helping to form their global consciousness. Similarly, it can improve the overall quality of young people. By surfing the Internet, they can cultivate their ability to communicate with all kinds of people; by reading various useful books on the Internet, they can learn by analogy and improve their own cultural literacy.

2 Negative effects of the Internet

1. It poses a potential threat to the formation of "three views" of young people. It is easy for young people to come into contact with capitalist propaganda, cultural ideas, etc. on the Internet. Their thoughts are in extreme contradictions and confusion, and their outlook on life and values ??are easily skewed, which can lead to total westernization, hedonism, money worship, worship of foreigners, etc. Bad thoughts.

2. The Internet has changed young people’s interpersonal relationships and lifestyles in work and life. Teenagers openly and frankly express their views and opinions online, demanding equal dialogue, and challenging the authority of youth workers, so that the effects of ideological and political work often fail to meet expectations. At the same time, access to the Internet makes it easy for young people to form a self-centered way of living, with weak collective consciousness and the proliferation of individual liberal thoughts.

3. Information garbage weakens the ideological and moral consciousness of young people. According to relevant expert surveys, 47% of online information is related to pornography, and about 60% of teenagers are inadvertently exposed to pornographic information online. There are also some illegal organizations or individuals who publish black information online that disrupts the political economy and confuse young people. This kind of information garbage will weaken the ideological and moral awareness of young people, pollute their minds, and mislead their behavior.

4. The hidden nature of the Internet has led to an increase in immoral and illegal behaviors among young people. On the one hand, a small number of teenagers browse pornographic and illegal websites and use false identities to make malicious friends and chat. On the other hand, cyber crimes have increased, such as spreading viruses, hacking, theft through banks and credit cards, fraud, etc. These criminal subjects are mainly teenagers, and most of them have simple motives. Some of them are even for "fun", "enjoyment" and "showing talent". In addition, the imperfect legal system related to the Internet also gives young people an opportunity to commit crimes.

Content 3: Various "symptoms" of young people who use the Internet

First, the cognitive "fast food-hardening" syndrome

For many people who are in a hurry For young people, the Internet is like a knowledge fast food, which greatly stimulates their strong desire to seek knowledge. They can immediately find the information they need in the vast ocean of information with just a click of the mouse, thus greatly improving their efficiency per unit time. Study and work efficiency. As for the various fashionable exhibits on the Internet, they are driven by curiosity and thirst for knowledge and never look at or doubt its structural components and operating functions. The whole brain becomes a passive and numb machine while swallowing the dates, which leads to many Induration not only engulfs the youthful brains of young people that should be full of vitality and independent opinions, but also blocks their internalization of true knowledge.

Second, the emotional "crazy-apathy" syndrome

For those young people who have not yet completely gotten rid of patriarchal and conformist education, although in reality Their emotional expression is always controlled by others and society, but many of their suppressed emotions can explode freely in the online world. Making friends online, chatting online, and talking loudly in BBS have become smooth channels for people to forget the oppression of authority, relieve loneliness, and vent their dissatisfaction.

We have observed that although the Internet can help young people relieve stress and balance their psychology to a certain extent, too much virtual online emotional communication undoubtedly makes many young people try to bury their true emotions deep in their hearts while letting their emotions fly. , unwilling to reveal themselves to the real world, and too lazy to communicate emotionally with real people. In life, these people are taciturn, not good at talking, unmoved by worldly emotions, and show an indifferent attitude. The Internet has become a spiritual lock for some people to face the real emotional world.

Third, the "autonomy-expansion" syndrome of will

In the unmanaged area of ??the Internet, young people can be self-centered and take their own needs as the center. scale, to use online resources independently according to one's own personal will, to play various roles in games independently, to design amazing "small productions", "little inventions", etc., this kind of unfettered and arbitrary will Although independent expression is conducive to the promotion of young people's personality to a certain extent. But we are also shocked by the expansion of the will of some people in the extreme autonomy of their will: some young people just want to show their individuality and always want to make a splash through the independent expression of their own will. Lee creates huge bubbles of thoughts and discussions on the Internet at will, and even takes extreme actions such as damaging other people's data, destroying other people's websites, and invading other people's systems in order to achieve the goal of making him the protagonist, even causing terrible network traffic congestion. network earthquake.

Content 4 Fully understand the "youth problem" in the development of the Internet and actively seek countermeasures

1. Fully understand the problem of online ideological penetration and strengthen the education and guidance of young people. We must strengthen the ideological and political education of young people, and guide them with Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important ideological education of "Three Represents", so that they can strengthen their communist ideals and beliefs, and strive to establish a correct outlook on life, world outlook and values, strengthen the sense of patriotism and promote the national spirit.

2. Effectively strengthen the construction of civilized behavioral norms online. It is necessary to extensively carry out various activities with the theme of publicizing the "Youth Internet Civilization Convention", actively guide young people to abide by Internet ethics, and promote the "five dos and five don'ts", that is: they must be good at online learning and not browse bad information; they must communicate honestly and friendlyly, Do not insult or defraud others; enhance your awareness of protection and do not meet with netizens at will; maintain network security and do not disrupt the order of the Internet; be beneficial to your physical and mental health and do not indulge in virtual spaces. Strive to create a clean, healthy, civilized and orderly network environment.

3. Build a youth education system for network and social interaction. The ideological education of young people in the Internet era is a complex systematic project. Therefore, the government, society, and families must collaborate and work together to achieve three combinations: First, the political advantages of traditional youth education must be organically combined with the characteristics of the Internet; The second is to combine the organizational strength of the party, government and mass organizations with the work of cultivating online youth volunteers; the third is to combine the construction of the website with the necessary reforms of the existing youth organizations and institutional operating mechanisms to adapt to the Internet development needs. In addition, we must focus on strengthening the social education of young people, improving their ability to adapt to modern society, so that they can bravely face the real world and actively participate in the practice of transforming society.

4. Cultivate a group of young workers who can adapt to the requirements of the Internet age. The survey shows that currently 5.6% of youth workers do not know how to use computers at all, and 38.4% have never been exposed to the Internet. This situation is difficult to adapt to the educational requirements of the Internet era. Therefore, we must strengthen the network of youth workers. Technical training allows them to master Internet-related knowledge and skills as soon as possible, enrich their knowledge capacity, improve their knowledge structure, and understand what young people are thinking, so that educational work can be more targeted.

5. Open up more and better youth websites and actively occupy the Internet position. At present, most youth websites do not have a sense of freshness or the sense of the times, and appear rather dull, making it difficult for them to generate strong cohesion and appeal.

Therefore, we must build a youth website with rich and colorful content, unique and innovative forms as soon as possible, and provide positive education to young people in a style of "clear themes, lively forms, fresh and elegant, healthy and progressive", and truly "convince people with reason and emotion". There has been a breakthrough in people". At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the development and production of youth education software, use legal and technical feasibility to combat online illegal crimes, and follow the sound development track of "governing the Internet with law."

Data source: "Contemporary Youth Research" 2002, 4

On the pros and cons of middle school students using the Internet

Survey and research on the pros and cons of middle school students

The benefits of using the Internet for middle school students

The information-based characteristics of the Internet have given rise to the renewal of modern concepts among middle school students, such as learning concepts, efficiency concepts, global awareness, etc. It enables middle school students to constantly be exposed to new things and new technologies and accept the challenges of new concepts. Professor Yang Zhongfang, director of the Department of Psychology at Sun Yat-sen University, believes that except for illegal pornographic and violent websites that may cause harm to children, the Internet brings far more positive things to children than negative ones. Moreover, for middle school students, the Internet is something that cannot be avoided. Whether you like it or not, it is destined to become an indispensable thing in the lives of middle school students. Preventing middle school students from accessing the Internet will be detrimental to their growth. So what are the benefits of using the Internet for middle school students?

1. Broaden horizons

The Internet is an encyclopedia-like world with extremely rich information. It has a large amount of information, fast information exchange speed and strong degree of freedom, realizing global information revolution. *Enjoy, middle school students can freely obtain their needs on the Internet, browse the world online, understand the world, and understand the world's latest news information and scientific and technological trends, which greatly broadens the horizons of middle school students and brings great convenience and convenience to study and life. pleasure.

2. Strengthen external exchanges

The Internet has created a new virtual world. In this new world, each member can transcend the constraints of time and space and communicate with acquaintances or friends very conveniently. People who do not know each other connect and communicate, and discuss topics of similar interest. Due to the "virtual" nature of online communication, it avoids the friction and harm caused by face-to-face communication, thus providing a way for people to satisfy their emotional needs and obtain information. A new place for communication. Middle school students' access to the Internet can further expand the time and space of external communication and realize the liberalization of communication and making friends. At the same time, most of the current middle school students are only children and are relatively lonely at home. Psychologically speaking, they are most eager to interact with others. Interactions in real life may bring pressure to them, especially those with introverted personalities. The Internet gives them a new space for intercourse and a relatively relaxed and equal environment.

3. Promote the personalized development of middle school students

The world is rich and colorful, and human development should also be colorful. The Internet provides this environment with unlimited and diverse development opportunities. Middle school students can find their own development direction online and get resources and motivation for development. You can learn, research and even innovate using the Internet. This kind of learning is the most efficient learning. There is a vast amount of knowledge available for learning online, which provides a very broad field for middle school students to make large-scale associations and imaginations, and continuously provides nutrients for creative thinking. Some computer games can strengthen the logical thinking ability of middle school students to a certain extent.

4. Expand the space for education for today's middle school students

In our survey, 15 people improved their academic performance because of the Internet. This is also something we are proud of when we go online. Resources on the Internet can help middle school students find suitable learning materials, and even suitable schools and teachers. This has begun to become a reality, such as some famous online schools. What is worth mentioning here is that there are many students with learning difficulties who do not complain at all when learning computers and making web pages. It can be seen that their backwardness is mainly due to their personality types and aptitudes that are not suitable for a certain teaching model. It can be said that the Internet provides these "poor students" with a vast world to display their talents.

The history of scientific and technological development has continuously proved that science and technology are like a double-edged sword, which is beneficial to human development and harmful to human interests.

As a new technology in the information society, the Internet has this double-sided characteristic without exception. At the same time, due to the immaturity of the physical and mental development of middle school students, the particularity of the Internet, and the imperfection of network development, while we see the positive aspects of computer networks for middle school students, we should also see its negative effects and pay sufficient attention to them.

Disadvantages of middle school students using the Internet

1. The richness of network information can easily cause "information pollution" to middle school students.

The Internet is a treasure house of information, and it is also a garbage dump of information. All kinds of information on the Internet, good and bad, coexist, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. Due to the lack of effective supervision, pornographic, reactionary and other negative information are common on the Internet. At the same time, the interactivity and equality of the Internet enable people to receive and disseminate information in an absolutely free environment. For middle school students whose bodies and minds are still in the developmental stage and whose ability to distinguish right from wrong, self-control and choice abilities are relatively weak, it is difficult to withstand the negative impact of this bad information. Some Internet cafe operators have seized on this characteristic of middle school students, sheltered, condoned, and supported them to log into pornographic and violent websites, making them addicted to the Internet and unable to extricate themselves. As a result, some middle school students were unable to make ends meet, until they embarked on a criminal path of stealing, robbery, rape, and murder. For example, we found the article "The Internet Infested by Wolves" (/GB/it/52/303/20021128/876736.html) on People's Daily Online. The content mainly introduces the problems caused by teenagers' access to the Internet in my country and other countries since 2000. crimes that occurred.

2. The arbitrariness of network information dissemination can easily weaken the moral consciousness of middle school students.

The rich and colorful Internet information has greatly enriched the spiritual world of middle school students. However, due to the arbitrariness of information dissemination, all kinds of thoughts and concepts are also flooding it. For those who are not strong in self-monitoring ability and are extremely curious, Middle school students have great temptations that lead to a loss of ethics. At the same time, the hidden nature of information reception and dissemination on the Internet makes it easy for middle school students to indulge in their own behavior on the Internet, do what they want to do completely according to their own wishes, and forget their social responsibilities. Some middle school students do not believe that "lying when chatting online is immoral" and believe that "you can do anything online without any scruples." This has greatly weakened the restraint of middle school students on their own behavior, and the number of bad online behaviors has gradually increased.

3. The virtuality of the Internet has caused "insufficiencies" in the socialization of middle school students.

The Internet can transmit text, sound, and images in real time, providing a multimedia and interactive three-dimensional way for middle school students to communicate with each other. It is convenient and fast to send and receive emails online, QQ is novel and timely, chat rooms are relaxed and pleasant, and BBS discussions are free and extensive. Through these channels, middle school students can talk, communicate, help and confide with many people who do not know each other. However, this kind of socialization is only a virtual socialization. The communication between people is blocked by machines. It is a kind of communication in the form of "human-machine-symbol-symbol-machine-human". . This form of communication removes many of the social attributes of both parties, and is characterized by "desocialization", which is far from socialization in real social situations. Moreover, the scope of youth interactions on the Internet is mostly limited to peer interactions between young people. There is less social interaction between middle school students and their parents, relatives, friends, teachers, etc., and intergenerational learning and interaction are obviously insufficient. This can be seen from our survey. The main purpose of 20.4 middle school students going online is to chat.

4. The allure of the Internet causes symptoms such as "Internet addiction" and "Internet loneliness" among middle school students.

The Internet is full of new things, and they are constantly increasing. Therefore, it has unlimited appeal to middle school students who are easy to accept new things. This attraction often leads to middle school students' extreme fascination with the Internet. Male middle school students are the main group of Internet fans. Due to their weak psychological quality and relatively weak self-control ability, they have become a group prone to Internet psychological disorders.

Because patients treat the online world as real life, are out of touch with the times, and do not have the same language as others, they manifest symptoms such as loneliness and restlessness, depression, slow thinking, lowered self-evaluation, and in severe cases, suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Medically, this symptom is called "Internet Addiction Syndrome", or IAD for short.

Analyze the causes of disadvantages

1. Reasons for the physical and mental development characteristics of middle school students

The period of middle school students is a very special stage. Individuals enter junior middle school and high school from elementary school stage, his physical and mental development underwent significant changes. First of all, there are two needs that have an important impact on their psychology and behavior. The first is the development of sex, which makes middle school students’ sexual consciousness and sexual impulse appear, that is, the need for sex appears; the second is due to the overall development of the body, It gives middle school students a sense of adulthood and a strong need for independence. These physical and mental development characteristics inevitably make them susceptible to interference from online information.

2. Reasons for the Internet itself

The Internet is global, interactive, rich in information resources and expressions, and easy to use, which provides an opportunity for the profit-oriented pornographic service industry to A rare place to do business. In order to attract customers, these websites often post pornographic pictures on their homepages so that anyone surfing the Internet can see them intentionally or unintentionally, and middle school students are certainly no exception. Once middle school students with immature minds come into contact with these contents, you can imagine the impact they will have.

3. Reasons for parents and schools

In our survey data, 79.4 parents of middle school students did not provide guidance for their children to use the Internet. In today's society, parents of middle school students spend a lot of time on work, and middle school students with few adults to accompany them use the Internet to kill time. As the place where middle school students are most concentrated and receive education, school is the most important part of the education of middle school students. However, some schools ignore the online moral education of students and ignore the issues of adolescent education that our traditional education often avoids, resulting in middle school students lacking correct guidance and awareness of online ethics.

4. Social reasons

The current fierce competition in Internet cafe operations has led some operators to engage in unfair competition for profit-making purposes, regardless of law and morality, to invest in the curiosity of students and engage in unfair competition. At the same time, communications, public security, culture and industry and commerce are not yet coordinated enough in the management of Internet cafes, and there are still a large number of Internet cafes with incomplete "three certificates". Preventive measures and regulatory systems still lag behind the development of network technology.

The impact of computer networks on the psychological development and mental health of middle school students is dual. There are negative effects and positive effects. The key lies in how the majority of mental health workers, schools, families and society can further play the positive role of computer networks. Psychological effects, controlling and reducing their negative effects, this is a new topic we are facing. Based on the survey data and results, we put forward the following suggestions on how to correctly guide and prevent the disadvantages caused by the Internet:

Suggestions for eliminating disadvantages

1. Middle school students themselves must abide by online ethics Standardize and develop good habits online.

Middle school students should not be immersed in virtual worlds such as online chatting and games. They should not browse, create, or broadcast unhealthy information. They should not chat using insulting or abusive language. They should not easily date Internet friends they have never met before. Try to watch something that is interesting to them. Learn something useful in daily life and be sure to maintain self-control; before going online, it is best to make a small plan, write down what you want to do, and do it one by one. Under the education of schools and parents, middle school students should learn five rejections by combining perceptual and rational understanding: first, reject the formation of unhealthy psychology; second, reject online infringement; third, reject bad habits and bad behaviors; fourth, reject pornography , the poison of violence; fifth, refusing to enter Internet cafes that minors should not enter. In short, middle school students must consciously abide by Internet ethics and consciously resist the erosion of bad online information.

2. Parents should proactively care about their children and guide them to access the Internet correctly.

As a parent, you must care about your children's learning and living conditions, and prevent students from going to Internet cafes to surf the Internet without their parents knowing.

We should strengthen research on middle school students’ Internet use, explore new situations, create new methods, solve new problems, and enhance the effectiveness of middle school students’ Internet access.

We must combine guidance and regulation to enable middle school students to develop good habits of using their "brain" and surfing the Internet. Through various channels, middle school students should be informed about the illusion of the Internet and the complexity of information, and continue to provide guidance and appropriate regulation for their Internet use, so that they can have a sense of prevention, learn to distinguish the difference between real life and the online world, and cultivate their awareness of Internet ethics. Provide popular education on network knowledge to middle school students and enhance their awareness of network information. At the same time, give appropriate care and love, and listen to what they are thinking. It not only leads the way, but also provides "protection". In the current situation of imperfect network regulations and technology, this may be an important and feasible way for families and schools to solve the adverse effects of Internet access.

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