Author(s)

YuLing Chen

Affiliation(s)

ZhiXin High School, Guangzhou 510000, Guangdong, China.

Corresponding Author

YuLing Chen

ABSTRACT

With the advent of the digital and intelligent era, more and more teenagers are exposed to the Internet prematurely. Due to the intermingled network content, adolescents are psychologically affected in a mixed state. Using questionnaires and interviews, this study investigated the use of electronic products among fifth-grade students in elementary schools in the townships of Qionghai City, Hainan, China. The data found that electronic products can provide more learning resources for primary school students, more convenient access to knowledge, self-guided learning, and broaden their horizons. However, electronic products have the risk of making pupils addicted, wasting learning time and limiting their independent thinking. At the same time, electronic products have rich entertainment functions, and primary school students are more willing to use electronic products for entertainment when their self-learning consciousness is not stimulated. Therefore, schools and parents should play a role in guiding and supervising them.

KEYWORDS

Online education; Elementary students; Psychology of minors; Chinese towns

CITE THIS PAPER

YuLing Chen. Research on the impact of online education on the psychology of pupils in townships. World Journal of Educational Studies. 2024, 2(3): 43-49. DOI: 10.61784/wjes3007.

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