Academician Li Guojie: Only the protection of the Internet is not enough. Young people must be a promoter of digital civilization

Text ｜ Li Guojie (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and researcher of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)

※ Minors in the network need more than only "protection".

※ The Internet was created by us, but it was not our "design". It is constantly evolving like this today. Our relationship with the Internet is similar to the relationship between humans and biological ecosystems, that is, interdependence and cannot be fully controlled.

※ We use the software created by the Internet to change our minds, and our minds in turn change the software for development. Rather than saying that we are the designers of technology, we mighty say that we are intermediaries in the process of technology evolution.

※ The cause of the evolution of civilization in the adolescent group must cultivate teenagers into advanceders of digital civilization.

※ Human understanding ability is stronger than robots, but now the shortcomings of middle school students are reading comprehension ability. I hope that primary and secondary schools will attach great importance to "language" education.

Human beings are entering a new era of digital civilization marked by Internet and artificial intelligence. Whether the training of adolescents meets the requirements of the times depends on our judgment on the evolution of human civilization. We need to look at the issue of youth from a more macro and more comprehensive perspective, and avoid the limitations of "seeing trees and not seeing the forest".

Minors in the network need not only "protection".

According to Xinhua News Agency, a survey of primary and secondary school students in China in 2021 found that the psychological problems of children's "four -nothing" psychological problems have increased significantly, that is, learning has no motivation and does not like to read; there is no interest in the real world. Media; social incompetence; there is no feeling for life value.

Many problems in the network are the refraction and embodiment of social problems in the network, but it is more widely spread by the network. To create a clear network environment, we must first create a good social environment.

Youth education affects the future of the country. "Protecting" minors from the "harm" of the Internet is just creating a good growth environment for young people. And nowadays are the founders of digital civilization. Whether they can take on this heavy responsibility is the most concerned issue in the society.

The mainstream of the current adolescents is good, but many primary and secondary school students lack a sense of responsibility, honesty and challenge. How to guide and educate young people may be more important than "protection".

The root of bad style is consciousness, and the problem of consciousness depends on education. Education is not only to teach knowledge, but also to cultivate emotions and cultivate a kind heart.

As the Internet enters all aspects of society, virtual society has emerged, among which a lot of rumors and false information have been filled, which can easily cause young people to have confusion, distorted values, and negative life attitudes.

Questions and criticism are the essence of scientific spirit. It is necessary to focus on cultivating and improving the ability of minors to obtain, analyze, judge, choose, and use information to allow them to gradually develop the ability to judge the authenticity of information and good and bad. Essence The advanced content filtering technology can not replace the cultivation of the ability to distinguish between "fragrant flowers" and "poisonous grass".

At present, the methods of network content filtering and game software classification are generally used abroad to block the harmful network information. At the same time, it is necessary to provide students with abundant extra -curricular activities, such as sports, extracurricular practice and art activities to enrich their inner world, and avoid excessive energy into the online world.

In fact, so far, our efforts to control the negative influence of technology are not successful, highlighting that our understanding of this issue is still not in place, and it is unrealistic to expect everyone to be regular.

According to the perspective of human development, the unreasonable results come from the immoral behavior of individuals, such as blindly gaining blindness regardless of social influence. From the perspective of collaborative evolution, the purpose of supervision is to promote the healthy development of technology. The unsuccessful result is also the product of technological reproduction. Our intervention is to promote the reproduction of technologies that meet human conscience. The inventors and users of technology play a role in this process. Should we formulate policies to allow users to play a greater role in technological evolution?

Youth education is not to close them in the cage that is completely purified, nor is it to increase their opportunities to find a good job, but to guide them to understand the society correctly, distinguish between right and wrong, and enhance immunity. This is the value of adolescent education.

The inventor of the Internet, Bernas Lee, pointed out that practice has proved that the Internet does not serve humans as expected, but instead suffers from humans in many ways. Now that we say that the Internet enters the second half, it is actually a new declaration. The Internet will turn from the blind pursuit of efficiency in the first half to the pursuit of promoting social fairness and justice, benign development. This is the inevitable era.

The power to determine our development is largely beyond our control, but these forces themselves are also a feedback system for its own adjustment mechanism. If we can understand their principles, we can promote them in the right direction.

The Internet was created by us, but it was not "design". It is constantly evolving like this today. Our relationship with the Internet is similar to the relationship between humans and biological ecosystems, that is, interdependence and cannot be fully controlled.

We use the software created by the Internet to change our minds, and our minds in turn change the software for development. Rather than saying that we are the designers of technology, we mighty say that we are intermediaries in the process of technology evolution.

Evolutionary biologist Kevin Raide pointed out in "Unthined Evolution" that human evolution can be divided into three periods, during the period of gene evolution, gene -cultural collaboration, and cultural evolutionary period. Culture has not stopped biological evolution, but it has become the main driving force for human evolution. The cause of the evolution of civilization in the adolescent group must cultivate teenagers into advanceders of digital civilization.

To cultivate adolescents into digital civilization advanceders, focusing on understanding the important role of humanism. Scientists can study how the world works, but does not tell us what humans should do. We cannot rely on scientific theory as decisions, and we need to judge with values ​​or ideology.

In addition, to attach great importance to humanistic education, it is to teach students to think and teach them how to think about society and life. Human understanding ability is stronger than robots, but now the shortcomings of middle school students are reading comprehension ability. I hope that primary and secondary schools will attach great importance to "language" education.

In the 1980s, when I was a Ph.D. at Purdue University in the United States, the Department of Computer Department of the university had done a "survey of the achievement of computer scholars and the basic education of primary and secondary schools." The results of the tracking and traceability survey show that the size of the computer department's graduates is not much related to his early contact with the computer (that is, the students caught by the computer have no obvious advantages), and the language and mathematics results of the middle school are stronger. Correlation.

It is easy for people to understand that computers are related to mathematics, but they often do not understand why they are strongly related to "Chinese". This is because improving "understanding ability" mainly depends on Chinese teaching. Reading broaden the horizons and inspires thinking; writing makes people logical and profound; communication emphasizes the rationality and efficiency of transmitting thoughts. Reading understanding is not only important to computer scholars, but also important for all teenagers.

("Chinese Newspaper" reporter Han Yangmei sorted out)

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