Once a teacher, always a father, I am grateful to all the professors and mentors who have trained me. It is also my mission to spread the knowledge of psychology so that more people can benefit from psychology. In fact, the impact of this drive for games in the Internet era on ed

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Once a teacher, a lifelong father, I am grateful to all the professors and mentors who have trained me, spread the knowledge of psychology, let more people benefit from psychology, and it is me a mission.

01 Terrifying data

The total time spent by gamers around the world playing , Warcraft, and has exceeded the length of time that humans have entered the civilized era - this is a very "terrible" data.

In fact, the impact of this game drive in the Internet era on education and the resulting changes have already begun.

For example, a foreign university professor made a change to the way he teaches classes :

He stipulated a task. After completing this task, students can upgrade; after upgrading, they will give a second task.

is like playing a game, upgrading and fighting monsters, using this mode to attract college students to invest more in learning.

He found that after using this teaching model, students were more willing to take the initiative to learn.

The reason is as we mentioned earlier, this generation of children grew up playing games, and their way of thinking is a gamified way of thinking.

Coincidentally, Finland education methods are undergoing earth-shaking changes.

Some people think that Finland may be the first country in the world to do away with traditional education methods. They changed education into a thematic education.

02 What is thematic education?

For example, we work in a coffee shop, which is called a panoramic education project.

The knowledge required to work in a coffee shop includes the comprehensive cultivation of English, economic knowledge, interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence. This is called thematic education.

For another example, if we want to rehearse a musical, then we need to supplement relevant knowledge around this musical.

History knowledge, geography knowledge, music knowledge, emotional intelligence knowledge, interpersonal communication knowledge, etc.

These are thematic education. They use this kind of education to replace the current single traditional education such as history classes, geography classes, language classes, and art classes.

means that a topic task is set, students complete the task, and at the same time upgrade the knowledge necessary to complete the task.

In fact, not only Finland is doing this, the UK is also trying thematic education. The purpose of this huge change is to rekindle children's interest in school life.

Therefore, the problems existing in education are not problems that exist in a single country at all. They are problems that occur in the education of all countries around the world in the context of responding to the impact of the Internet.

03 The Internet causes physiological damage to children's brains

There is also a major impact here - the impact of the Internet era on children's brain structure.

American education experts have found that by observing the brain structure scans of the new generation of children, they found that the physiology of their brain structure is completely different from those born in the 70s, 80s and 60s in the past.

The biggest feature of this brain structure is that the way attention works is no longer willing to focus on single event learning. When they study, they like to focus on more than two or three things at the same time.

Because of changes in attention patterns, attention time is also changing. The time we can maintain our attention has also changed from ten minutes to five minutes.

This major change has made traditional education, which requires children to sit in the classroom and concentrate on learning, become increasingly inefficient.

Because children’s brains are no longer adapted to the traditional teaching model.

This is the strongest challenge that China’s education has encountered, and it is also a trouble that education in all countries around the world will encounter.

This is the issue that everyone really needs to pay attention to.

So, don’t be led astray by the outdated views of some psychological Internet celebrities. What they are really good at is not psychology or education.

What they are good at is just throwing out a hot topic that attracts attention, and then put your ideas into perspective. Taken in a wrong direction.

04 Characteristics of thematic education

The development of thematic education may be a direction that can be considered. If you are a parent with children, you can also make preparations in this regard in advance.

Characteristics of thematic education:

• First, children are required to adopt a cooperative learning model , which enhances children's interpersonal motivation and driving force;

• Secondly, every learning is interdisciplinary, increasing their ability to The ability to connect and construct knowledge in different fields;

• Third, it can promote children's driving force so that they can actively learn instead of passively learning like in the past.

The main thing that thematic education wants to change is the decline in social drive, drive transfer and game drive caused by the impact of the Internet on children,

and the problems of concentration, memory decline, etc. brought about by the game Internet era.

Therefore, this kind of thematic education can help improve many problems derived from the Internet era.

This kind of education method will also improve the current situation of children retreating from school and social life.

However, thematic education also has its drawbacks, that is, the testing and assessment of thematic education is very difficult.

In the test and assessment of thematic education, we cannot be as fair as a paper. It is not as fair as exam-oriented education.

Thematic education will bring about a bigger problem, which is the unfairness of the assessment process.

It is precisely because of this that the key is to find a balance between fairness and children's interests.

Therefore, don’t be led by others to take your thinking patterns to extremes.

05 Education faces the future

The purpose of our study of psychology is to use a scientific perspective and a non-extreme way of thinking to explore the essence of the problem.

Any education method has its advantages and disadvantages.

may be suitable for some people, but it may be unfair to others.

Finally, I would like to summarize: There are indeed many problems in education, but solving education problems cannot be based on single thinking.

To solve the problem of education, we need to work together in at least three aspects:

• First, in terms of the education system, we need the best people to be teachers , so we must improve the treatment of teachers and schools.

• Secondly, as for parents, parents should have more time and learn knowledge about education and psychology so that they can meet the needs of their children in the future.

• Third, the joint efforts of society can enable us to better adapt to the requirements of human education in the Internet era..

Therefore, as a psychologist and a psychology popularizer,

must not be like some psychological Internet celebrities who mislead the public into extreme thinking in order to attract attention.

But the most important point is that all psychological educators and parents should pay attention to the fact that the goal of

education is to cultivate talents who will meet the needs of society in the next 20 years, and we must always look forward.

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