Children raised by digital devices
Our children's generation is pure-blooded indigenous people born in the digital age. Mobile phones and iPads have become the best weapons for us to send children in fast-paced life.
Disasters of digitalization
Germany's popularity of iPad usage was earlier than in China. Teenagers surf the Internet for 7.5 hours a day, exceeding their sleep time for the first time. In recent years, problems have become increasingly apparent: freshmen who are admitted to primary school have ADHD, are prone to get angry and lose their temper, forget about words, careless answers to questions, poor memory, poor words, poor coordination, clingy, and withdrawal, etc., all of which have increased significantly compared to children before the mobile era (leading to the fact that major German newspapers and magazines have competed to blacklist the digital industry in recent years).
A large number of cases of brain and nervous system development disorders caused by inappropriate use of electronic products at the age of young age ( sensory disorder ) have emerged, which is a wake-up call for Chinese parents - children are stupid.
As a scholar, Spitzer, the top German brain neuroscientist, sees a little further. What he sees is the impact of digital dementia on a person's entire life.
The above picture is the translation of DrBing: In Professor Spitzer's metaphor, intellectual construction in the early years is like firing a shell. The higher the firing, the longer the trajectory of life; vice versa. Behaviors that are helpful for intellectual construction include: bilingual, a lot of experiential learning, sports music culture, etc. The corresponding result is that children can get better education, have meaningful work, have a happy family, realize their social value, and finally spend a healthy and fulfilling old age.
behaviors that are not helpful to intellectual construction include: TV, video games, online games, and network dependency . It manifests itself in various learning disabilities and self-management problems (thinking ability and will) in . In middle age, it will lead to unemployment, illness, bankruptcy, loneliness, depression and even early death .
This has to mention a shocking social phenomenon in developed countries in Europe and the United States: bankrupt.
China has just established the middle class, and the urban-rural gap is still very large, and we have seen numbness in the homeless.
There are a large number of people like this: bankrupt people, while Europe and the United States, which have an average urban and rural areas, and even Germany, where the social guarantee system has reached an outrageous development. There is absolutely no one born bankrupt. They are all ordinary people who were completely defeated by life for some reason - becoming the real Luther. (I believe that China will also have corresponding phenomena in 10-20 years)
Well, love, love, they mostly have the following characteristics:
1. From an unhappy family (inner trauma caused by intact personality)
2. From a low-income/low-educated family (not well-educated and developed as a child)
3. Not well educated (almost no decision-making power in career choice)
4. Inflexible thinking (when encountering major career changes, such as company layoffs, industry earthquakes,
5. Poor psychological endurance and self-management ability (I can't recover from setbacks)
All problems are all two points in the final analysis: Intelligence and psychology . Children and young people in the digital age are increasingly showing the early characteristics of loser! What Professor
Spitzer is worried that in the digital age, the above-mentioned people may emerge in batches in more than ten years, bringing unbearable disasters to society - the government has already suffered enough just by dealing with the current group of confirmed children.
Intellect and psychology
From the example of a bankrupt person, a person's life, let's not talk about success for now. Just talking about whether he can live a safe life, intelligence and psychology are the two decisive factors. Intelligence determines whether children can receive better education and enter a social class with relatively fewer risks.Psychology determines whether children can grasp opportunities well and whether they can quickly adjust and stand up again in the face of setbacks.
How can new media, especially mobile iPads destroy children's intelligence and psychology?
Intelligence: Only in the rich and diverse real experiences, 0-6-year-old can children develop developed brain nerves through a variety of learning, as the material basis of intelligence. In several directions such as large sports, small sports, identification, emotions, society, and language, electronic products can only help with small sports ability (finger), and have almost no contribution in other directions! The visual information processing of infants and young children is still very weak, and the animation images with bright colors and simple shapes can attract their interest. To be honest, it is better to say that it is because infants and young children are still very low-level and only know how to appreciate those things. If they are allowed to spend a lot of time playing with electronic products, it is very direct to depriving them of the opportunity to develop other abilities, which is equivalent to creating an invisible cell for them, limiting the child's opportunities for continuous learning and the richness of their experience.
Children reach advanced stage . Anyone who has been online for many years will have a tendency: storage externalize . Because it is too easy to obtain information online (google, Baidu ), it is too easy to store, so why use your own brain? So we no longer remember anything, or we inertially feel that we can’t figure it out now, so we can save it for a collection before thinking about it. The result was that our collection bar was full of things. When we cleaned it up half a year later, we found that we were no longer interested and emptied it directly. After getting used to storage externalized thinking, our brains simply receive some information in a shallow way, but they do not remember or think. It's like a very sparse sieve. The sand of information has passed, but nothing is left behind and it has not been transformed into knowledge. This is the second harm to children due to premature digitalization. This is Google Effect that the Western education community is discussing fiercely: Google makes people find information, but makes people stupid.
Psychology: Children should be trained to adapt to pressure and overcome challenges when encountering problems, and get a sense of accomplishment. Otherwise, they will choose various ways to anesthetize their nerves to escape, becoming habitually confused people and cannot bear any challenges. This habitual tendency is the root cause of self-management, self-control, anti-frustration and other problems. Mobile iPad games are the easiest to become a safe haven for children to escape pressure and a breeding ground for habitual numbness.
When children start socializing on the Internet, they will be obsessed with maintaining their virtual image, constantly watching how much information and likes there are in their state. However, in real social interaction, especially when entering an environment outside the class, they seriously lack the skills and confidence to get along with people in reality.
Both intelligence and psychology are damaged. No, it should be said that it is "not getting the right development", so what is the result? Dementia - intellectually ignorant, psychologically sluggish .
Science is a double-edged sword
The Internet and a large number of resources have destroyed some children: parents have no time, no consciousness, and no knowledge , and use mobile devices to send children at will: the content is not selected, and the duration is not controlled. In fact, this type of parents will be destroyed no matter what era they are born in. It’s just that the weapon used to be a TV, but now it is an iPad. But new media is much more lethal than television: TV is single after all, but in new media, people can complete virtual experiences in almost all forms. Many otakus can do it during holidays and only go online - sleep - to complete their entire lives when they are awake in the virtual world.
Parents who are as clear-minded as mirrors know how to use it reasonably and provide good guidance and control of their children.
DrBing recommends
0-2 years old without contacting : Children's brains need to be in a real environment and experience in order to develop healthily: children need to touch, feel, observe and move real things, and train their nervous and cognitive systems with a basic understanding of the real world.Activities such as crawling and walking obstacles can not only exercise the baby's body, but also allow him to perceive the real three-dimensional space in a three-dimensional environment.
2-6 years old, less contact with : This is a period of rapid growth in children's abilities, and the cognitive focus is still completed through the "experience" of the real world. If you want to use an iPad, cut it into 15 minutes, which can be 2-3 times a day, and timeout is not allowed. Parents should play with each other before the age of 4. If the child insists on playing independently after the age of 4, it is best not to keep more than 3 games at the same time, so as not to get used to the completely free mode of changing after getting tired of playing.
6-9 years old Appropriate contact with : Many primary school homework are completed online, and the use of computer iPads must be relaxed. At this time, guide your child to learn to search and use encyclopedia to solve the practical difficulties in learning in life (don’t teach him how to copy and paste, both hand-copy and brain-remember are better than copy and paste). Teach your children some "creative" things (do PPT, do animation, and p photos). When your children find that computers can do such interesting things, they won't focus all on the game.
PS: Don’t let your children think that playing with iPad (mobile phone/computer) is a transaction. Don’t use iPad as a reward for some good behavior. Don’t let your children get into a big enemy when they come into contact with each other: this will only make your children more rare. If the child can't hold it up, he should remind the time beforehand, and remind him again when the time limit is approaching, and give the child psychological buffer time. If you encounter protests when taking them away, you should use a method that diverts your attention, such as: ! It seems that there is an ice cream in the refrigerator and we have forgotten it.
DrBing describes the polar world:
Even so, I am still worried: when I occasionally take the bus abroad, I will see some Turkish . Black mothers, from their rough hands and premature aging faces, they either look up their heads and breathless, or are stunned, with their faces saying they are weak. A 4 or 5-year-old boy next to him was happily playing with his cell phone in the shaking car. I seemed to see that twenty years later, this was another unemployed young man who was gang-in-arms and stumbled on the street. The young man was stealing and the older one was sent to jail. If he was better, he might be a truck driver. Digital media is here, the opium of childhood.
Other children showed a strong desire for knowledge under the guidance of their parents in their early years. My doctoral biology neighbor and friend's son Max, who just returned from Costa Rica at the age of 14, took me to see the jungle flower pictures taken on his journey on facebook , and introduced the Latin scientific names and characteristics of flowers with a gaze. At the age of 15, he had won the gold medal in the city's mathematics Olympics, organized the United Nations youth activities, and was proficient in English, Spanish and Chinese. At the age of 16, he had completed the half-year exchange student in Shanghai and the one-year exchange student in Malta ; this year he had successfully obtained the navigation certificate and won medals in the youth group of many international competitions. Digital media is a huge wing of these "super elites" who fully know what they like, what they want, and what they should do with .
"It is difficult for poor families to produce noble children", which is the concern of many sociologists at present, but this is what is happening in every corner of the world - even in Germany with 0 costs and 0 gate bars - The real gate bar comes from family education itself .
"I am afraid that the world in the future will be a terrible polarized world. A small group of super elites with developed limbs, complex minds, wealthy family backgrounds, and origins from famous schools, like fat pigs in the pen, rule a large group of lazy, obese, weak limbs, and numb otaku who spend their spare time in the virtual world. As long as the elites are happy, they will turn everyone into cannon fodder at any time."
Reprinted from: Yinghualan DrBing
