Research On Innovation Of College Students' Ideological And Political Education In New Media Environment

Since the beginning of the Ideological and Political education forcollege students several decades ago, we have witnessed its developmentthat the teaching method has been changed from indoctrination to mutualinteraction with students and regard the students as the major role in class;that multimedia technology has been widely applied in teaching, etc.Especially, new media plays an essential and irreplaceable role in thisprocess, which bring breakthrough for the traditional teaching andincrease its diversity and efficiency. With respect to the educationalreform and innovation, the past experience indicates it is necessary toadopt advanced new media technology into the Ideological and Politicaleducation.As the rapid development of information technology, new mediadiversifies the ways of imparting knowledge for students. The moderntechnology provides students with so much fast and plentiful informationthat they can acquire great number of information world-widely viainternet. Therefore, their study won’t be restrained by the time and space,which greatly affects their living habits, ways of thinking andpsychological consciousness. However, due to lack of social experience,they are not fully mature, and may easily suffer from confusion and frustration when facing various social phenomenon and problems,especially those negative events. So educators are responsible foranalyzing the impact of new media on college students ‘life,andexploring new ways to conduct ideological and political education.This paper introduced some basic concepts of new media,investigated the current status of the new media’s development, andanalyzed the relationship between new media and Ideological andPolitical education. The relationship between new media and collegestudents’ thought and behavior is also researched in this paper and theopportunities and challenges brought by new media are further discussed.Based on that, in order to broaden teaching field and build a goodeducational environment, some feasible strategies are proposed to benefitthe innovation of Ideological and Political education under the new mediaenvironment.