Collaborative efforts are needed to enhance the online literacy of young people
2025-08-06
This summer, relying on the special collaborative mechanism for the protection of minors' networks, the Shanghai Cyberspace Administration, in conjunction with relevant departments, jointly launched a "menu style" summer care course library for minors' network literacy. Through case studies, short video animations, and other methods of education and entertainment, young people can easily grasp network knowledge and improve their network literacy. Nowadays, the number of young internet users is increasing, and their online behavior and values deeply influence the direction of the online ecosystem. Improving the online literacy of young people is a necessary condition for cultivating new talents and cultivating a civilized new style, and it is also an inevitable requirement for helping to build a strong online nation. According to the data of China Internet Network Information Center, as of December 2024, the number of netizens in China has reached 1.108 billion; The number of internet users aged 6 to 10 and 10 to 19 reached 185 million, accounting for 16.7%. As the "natives" of cyberspace, they have deeply integrated and coexisted with the internet, and their level of digital living is increasingly improving. At this year's two sessions of the National People's Congress, deputies to the National People's Congress proposed to carry out the "24-hour screen rest" action among minors. For some time now, the "growth troubles" caused by excessive dependence on electronic products, such as vision loss, sleep disorders, and rising obesity rates, have also attracted widespread attention. How to improve the online literacy of teenagers and cultivate a new generation of digital citizens? Building a collaborative education system with family as the foundation, school as the main line, and social level as the basic support, or a suitable path. As the first classroom for the growth and development of teenagers, the family has a subtle influence on their growth, and online literacy education should be based on the family. Parents need to balance the relationship between standardized guidance and children's self-management. The key to family education lies in changing our mindset. We need to recognize that online literacy education is not simply limited by technology, but rather cultivates children's self-management abilities through words and deeds. On the one hand, parents should play a role in education, demonstration, guidance, and supervision, actively improve their own online literacy, abandon the lazy thinking of "using mobile phones to take care of children", and jointly develop a family digital convention with their children to create a healthy and harmonious family digital ecology. On the other hand, parents should respect their children's subjectivity and provide moderate guidance in the use of digital devices, information screening, online socializing, and other aspects to help children form correct online behavior habits. Schools are the main battlefield for online literacy education and need to be systematically promoted in terms of educational content, teacher team building, and dynamic evaluation. Network literacy education needs to be included in the national curriculum education content, and educational and teaching content should be designed according to the cognitive characteristics of different age groups of adolescents. The construction of the teaching staff is a key link, which requires adapting to the situation and continuously improving teachers' network literacy, artificial intelligence application ability, etc. Schools should conduct dynamic assessments of students' online literacy and provide personalized guidance. It should be emphasized that online literacy education should not only focus on the technical level, but also pay attention to guiding students' values, cultivating their digital ethics awareness and social responsibility. In addition, the support system for online literacy education should be improved, and a three-dimensional protective net should be constructed with institutional norms, responsibilities of online platform entities, and social support. Improve the supporting rules of the Regulations on the Protection of Minors' Networks, clarify the specific types, judgment criteria, and disposal methods of information that affects the physical and mental health of minors, and improve the punishment mechanism for illegal activities such as online violence. Institutional construction should avoid a one size fits all approach and seek a balance between "blocking" and "loosening". While strengthening protection, more attention should be paid to highlighting the subject status and participation rights of young people. Implement the main responsibility of online platforms, establish a mechanism for protecting minors that covers the entire lifecycle of products, encourage online platforms to develop high-quality educational content, and continuously improve the online ecosystem. Social organizations, grassroots communities, and other organizations can collaborate with online platform enterprises to carry out participatory and experiential practical activities, integrating online literacy education into the content of normalized cultural construction. For example, the Education Working Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and the Beijing Internet Court jointly built the "Beijing Youth Network Literacy Education Practice Base", and gradually explored diversified online education resources such as micro classroom, micro video, script killing, and Internet court simulation, so that young people can improve their network literacy in actual experience. To achieve the "trinity" collaborative education of family, school, and society, it is necessary to balance the relationship between protection and development, division of labor, and cooperation, especially to stimulate the subjectivity of young people and promote their transformation from "network users" to "network civilization builders". From a deeper perspective, the education of young people's internet literacy is crucial to the foundation of building a strong internet nation. Especially in the context of rapid iteration of technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, network literacy has shifted from "additional skills" to "core literacy". We need to build a forward thinking education pattern that promotes collaboration among families, schools, and society, so that online literacy education can truly take root and enable young people to explore the "digital blue ocean" and become qualified digital citizens of the future. (New Society)
Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang xiao jing
Source:GMW.cn
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