Self-perfection And Education Of Growing Up In The Digital Era

The history of human civilization in essence is a history of self-perfection. However, problems of human self-perfection have not been well sloved since we walked into the era of industrialization, although Marx and Engels having first pointed out self-alienation of people, scholars of post-modernization having deeply exposed the bad situation of self-perfection of people in industrial society as well. The arriving of digital era, with the attributes of de-centralization, openness, connective, shattering, multi-facets, interaction and personality, describes a picture that people get liberated and achieve self-perfection through all sorts of digital technologies, which have been put forward in the book of Being Digital written by Negroponte. The optimism for digital technologies is so popular that we are inclined to ignore its negative effect. Nowadays, the biggest problem that secondary school students might face in the digital era is the risk of human being twisted to be the slave of digital technologies and products, as well as digital human beings. There are many examples which have told us the fact, such as cell-phones and computers have become the undividable part of their life, digital technologies have dealt with everything rather than we choose learning contents, styles and approaches, and so on. As for the phenomenon, many media also reported some cases, like some schools opened some subjects relative with the usage of digital products, while others forbidding students achievable of those technologies. However, what they have done has proved to be invalid. What we really require is to build up a digital educational system, and arouse experts’ and practitioners’concerns to pay much attention to the problem.The key point of this research is the problems of human self-perfection. Self-perfection refers to a continuous and active life condition, of which through creative practice, human beings sort out the relation between real world and fictional world and find out their meaning, which includes being human being and being yourself. The first one means human beings is different with animals and plants, while the second one express they are different with the other people. The proposition of self-perfection is the response of self-destruction, self-deviation, self-addiction and self-isolation. After the paper reviewing those researches, we find out that self-perfection people embrace some characters, like stable self-awareness, effective recognition for reality, full freedom, open mind, creative, open experienced structure and deep spiritual requirements.Based on the reflection on industrialization, some psychoanalysts and humanists proposed their own answers for ego, for example Maslow put forward "self-perfection human beings", Rogers advanced "fully functional human beings". Rollo·May and Bugental thought the main task of psychologists should focus on the sick mind, including loneliness, emptiness, anxiousness, know-nothing-about-myself and self-isolation. What they talked about still remains the values for the digital life, as well as plays an important role in solving those problems appeared in this era.The paper hold a opinion that whilst the digital era being a condition of de-centralization and external-controlled, human beings are supposed to lose themselves, in which the self-perfection have being the only way to get rid of it. It happens in the process of intercourse between individuals and the way they act on digital products and technologies. There are some new traits of self-perfection in the digital era:1) promoting self-liberation while increasing the risk of self-lost;2) accelerating the back of value while amplifying the difficulties;3) opening up freedom while adding up the cost of self-control;4) enriching individual experiences while lifting the difficulties of dealing with experience;5) optimizing the practical conditions while promoting the possibilities of practice. At present, there are no effective rules, as well as remain some disagreements, which put forward some challenges. At present, Chinese digital development being the start line, new rules have not being established and some characteristics of people are still contrary with self-perfection, all of which set up challenges for self-perfection. The logic of being a self-perfection human being incardinates four areas, including acquiring safety in living environment, picking up self-awareness from the practical activities, setting up axis in the broad world, and seeking to self-excelling in the continuous reflection.In the theoretical structure of self-perfection, this research conducts some investigations about the condition of what Chinese secondary students are in the digital era. The investigation covers eight aspects:the overall depiction of digital development, self-recognition, practical recognition, freedom, values, creativity, picking up experience, spiritual development. According to the eight areas, the research proposes six conclusions:being positive and negative; being incomplete; being lack of independence; being lack of self-management; being restrict of right of dominance; being lack of direction from positive elements.The problem of students’ self-perfection in the era of digital era has the direct relation with schooling education. First, industrial education causes the depression and refute of secondary students, which reflects on schooling education restricting self-awareness, schooling education’s negative influence on reality, schooling education twisting the ideology, schooling education being alienated in activities, and schooling education curbing the creative needs. Second, digital trend breaks down the rules in schools, resulting in students and teachers losing their destinations, which consists of collapse of story structure, information explosion, living without aims, and adding up the difficulties of students’ self-perfection. Finally, we walked into the wrong direction in the process of carrying out digital education. For example, the flooding of modern educational technologies, pan-technologies of teaching process, scientific technologies suppressing literature, and schooling education being like fast food, all of which are destructive of self-perfection in the environment of worshiping technological minds.Only cultivating people with the special education fitting to the digital world, we would work out the way of promoting secondary students to be self-perfection. At the same time, we need to fulfill the change from industrial education to digital education, otherwise out education would position in a false condition that teaching students in digital world with the industrial education. This change should begin with the ideology. We should train people how to be self-management, with digital era changing from machine to internet, make another transform happen from skilled education to cultural education as well. The ideal education will give expressions from six perspectives:the coming of4A education, individual educational form, possible educational mind, diverse educational content and participatory educational activity. At last, for fulfilling the dream of digital education, we should reform the current educational system:cultivating the automotive educational ecosystem, establishing open schooling education constitutions, carrying out de-centralized schooling management, building up the scaffolding curriculum, and initiating teacher-directed teaching.