In recent years, shared study rooms have sprung up in various cities. In the "Beluga Whale Study Room" in Beijing, learners are immersed in self-study. Courtesy of respondents
Li Liang in the live self-study. Courtesy of respondents
Learners encourage and support each other in an atmosphere of shared self-study. The picture shows the wall of a study room, and everyone gives messages to themselves and each other. Courtesy of respondents
【Youth Focus and Shared Self-Study】
Probably since 2019, many cities in China have sprung up shared study rooms. According to industry report data, the main users of these shared study rooms are not students, but young people who have entered the workplace. After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, people's travel was restricted, so a more fashionable self-study "place" appeared - online study rooms. Some young people either set up "self-study rooms" on the Internet to learn, or live self-study on interactive platforms, encouraging each other, supervising each other, and helping each other.
"This new phenomenon is the product of the combination of the process of learning society formation and the new way of life of young people in the Internet age." Some scholars have given judgments.
Most of the shared study rooms are simply furnished, and online self-study looks boring and monotonous, but it is actually favored by young people. Why did the study room suddenly catch fire? Why do these places and methods of self-study attract so many young people? Recently, "Youth Talk" visited the "self-study masters" group and some psychology experts to find out.
Find a desk and a group of "alumni" in the hustle and bustle of the city
At 5:30 p.m., after work, Chen Yunfeng, a 29-year-old accountant, went straight into an office building in Kunming's Wuhua District to study in a shared study room. A few months later, he was going to take the CPA exam.
"Two hours of self-study a day, it's close to the company, very convenient." Chen Yunfeng told reporters that when he went to college, he had a self-study room and a library, and after participating in the work, he had to have a whole time and a suitable place to study professional books, which became "luxurious". Usually busy at work, the family children need to accompany, in order to be admitted to the CPA, he will merge the other affairs of the day, free up two hours, dedicated to preparation.
The private space of less than 2 square meters in the shared study room gave the young man a quiet world.
His booth is located in the "sun area" of the study room, by the window, and the thick glass blocks the noise of the city out of the window. The booth is simply furnished, with a beige table top with lamps, power sockets, green plants, and a bookcase next to the table. Nearly 40 learning seats around Chen Yunfeng sat more than 20 learners. They either bury their heads in reading, or take online classes or check information, and do not disturb each other.
"Mostly office workers." Wang Jing, the director of the study room, introduced that since its opening in 2019, more than 6,000 learners have visited the study room, and the main customers are young people who have studied for examinations, examinations and civil servants.
"In first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, there were paid shared study rooms a few years ago. Kunming has also increased in recent years. Wang Jing said that a shared study room run by his friend has just opened for more than 2 months and has more than 1,000 users.
According to ai media consulting data, the users of paid self-study rooms in China show a rapid growth trend, and it is expected that the user scale will exceed 5 million in 2021. The shared study room has become a new "punch card" place for young people.
"Taking exams and fighting for them is the result of rational decision-making, not instinct. Accomplishing a long-term task means that decision makers must work on the basis of self-control. Li Xiaoru, associate professor of the Department of Psychology at the School of Social Development and Public Policy of Fudan University, pointed out that from the perspective of evolutionary psychology, as a person with social attributes, it is often necessary to have a social reference, and to obtain a sense of security and identity by maintaining the same direction and synchronization with others.
The motivation of Zhang Shuo, a post-90s youth, to share a self-study room is different from That of Chen Yunfeng. She didn't have any exam preparation needs, just to get back to her focused learning.
"Life is full of short videos, online short articles, to calm down to do a deep reading, 'nibble' a good book, it is a little difficult for me." 」 Zhang Shuo said that nowadays, the knowledge acquired by everyone seems to be more and more fragmented, and the learning habits have become impetuous.
"If you really want to learn, you can learn anywhere, so why do you have to find a place specifically?" Zhang Shuo has been questioned by relatives and friends. She replied: "Here, everyone is very serious, and the atmosphere of reading and learning is good, it is like going back to campus." ”
Zhang Shuo went to the study room with a "literature area", and she met several "people in the same way" who "also liked Xiao Hong and liked Tolstoy". They formed a reading group to exchange learning experiences with each other.
The message board at the door of the study room was plastered with large and small notes with the learners' "graduation reports" and words of encouragement to each other, and Zhang Shuo had to look at them every time he left the study room, because "these handwritten blessings are quite warm."
During the interview, the reporter also met several young people, who did not have too clear learning goals, but because their peers were studying, they fell into anxiety and were afraid of falling behind. "I don't know what to learn, it's a big deal to take a few certificates, in short, the skills are not pressurized!" A young man replied.
"We don't want to create anxiety about young people competing, and we don't want young people to learn because of anxiety." Some shared self-study room managers said that they would prefer that the study room provide a "diligent atmosphere" and a beautiful experience, and that young people from xi jinping are learning because they love learning.
Develop self-discipline in a way that is noticed
There is no eye-catching technology, no sound other than the sound of writing, the sound of keyboard tapping, and there is only a table, a lamp, and a person who is learning on the screen. Such a monotonous webcast can actually catch fire.
In February 2020, during the winter vacation when it was inconvenient to go out due to the epidemic, a live broadcast room called "Chemistry Hall Self-study Room" at Station B (online platform Bilibili) was "crowded with people". Li Liang, an undergraduate student majoring in applied chemistry at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of East China University of Science and Technology, broadcasts his own learning process live. During the four hours of live broadcasting on February 8, the peak popularity exceeded 6,000.
Young people's ingenious attempts have allowed interactive network platforms, a gathering place for chats, games, and commercial activities, to slowly derive a cyberspace such as a "self-study room". Even in some video conferencing software, there are many young people who study collectively.
Li Liang was one of the first young people to try online live streaming for self-study. 6 years ago, Li Liang entered high school, the course is difficult, the pace of learning is tense, "completely different from junior high school." He had been uncomfortable with his high school studies.
"At that time, live broadcasting was just emerging." Li Liang recalled, "Seeing that many people live broadcast games and live streams with goods, I wondered if I could do homework live? On the one hand, someone watching the live broadcast can supervise me, and on the other hand, it can motivate the people who watch the live broadcast. ”
"Let's develop the habit of self-discipline in a way that is noticed!" With such an original intention, Li Liang began to broadcast self-study live, and he hoped to overcome his lack of concentration and laziness under the supervision of the camera.
Li Liang quickly entered the state of learning, sat one night, and received a good learning effect. He hardly interacts with fans, does not participate in the discussion of problems in the live broadcast room, and focuses on learning, but unexpectedly, the number of fans has soared, exceeding 150,000.
More and more people poured in to study with the quiet boy. Offline, they are in all corners of the world and do not know each other.
At that time, even without the supervision of teachers and parents, Li Liang still developed the habit of learning on time and completing tasks on time. Because once he went to study a few minutes late, fans would jokingly criticize him.
"In those hard and boring days and nights of sprinting for the college entrance examination, everyone encouraged each other and made progress together." Li Liang misses the live broadcast life at that time, and also cherishes the friendship that exists in the virtual world.
The reporter entered the B station at 22:00 at night, entered the "self-study room" search, and the self-study live broadcast of all kinds of up masters was dizzying, and there were still many people studying by themselves. The "study room" with more visits has more than 2 million people. "My math can't live up to it" "Beiwai is waiting for me"... Against the backdrop of relaxed music, the barrage of bullets is constantly shuttling.
"When I was in college, many students chose to study in the study room, and although it was difficult to find a place in the exam season, they still worked tirelessly. By connecting with others, everyone confirms their own position, clarifies their role, motivates themselves to work hard, and harvests different emotional experiences. Li Xiaoru explained that in the Internet era, people have more resources and opportunities to improve themselves, and they have richer forms and practices that meet people's inner needs.
A user named "I Can Still Learn" placed a message note in a prominent position on his live page: "Persistence is a kind of character." At the bottom of the page is his day's study schedule. According to his plan, he would also have to learn 23 hours and strive to put the law professional book "to the last page".
The quality of learning is more important than the form of learning
Many respondents said that when learning is boring and when they feel lonely when they struggle alone, live broadcasting is a good choice, which allows people to quickly find like-minded "alumni" and share the time of seeking knowledge together.
"But not everyone is suitable to participate in the online study room." Zhang Xiaohe, a post-90s young man with more than a year of live broadcast self-study experience, admitted that in fact, the broadcaster who has not enough concentration is difficult to overcome the curiosity about the content of the bullet screen and the number of fans, look at the screen more, reply to a few more questions from fans, and the learning status is interrupted.
"And sometimes there are some negative voices that affect you." Zhang Xiaohe has encountered verbal attacks from "onlookers", such as "What is the point of doing this?" "People here are boring!" Some of them are also very intense.
"If the concentration is not enough, it is easy to be interfered with by the network, it is better to turn off the live broadcast and learn by yourself." Zhang Xiaohe said, "After all, learning is the only purpose. ”
"Live streaming does have a distraction." Li Liang said, "I can get a good learning state in the process of live self-study, the first point is not to participate in the interaction, otherwise self-study becomes a chat, and the original intention of learning cannot be reached." ”
"Of course, live broadcasting also depends on the occasion." After going to college, Li Liang was worried that it would bring inconvenience to the dormitory students and stopped the live broadcast. The university library provided him and his classmates with a high-quality place for self-study, and now he spends every day in the library to prepare for graduate school. The focus that was once cultivated in the live self-study, and the learning quality of today's events, today's self-study room is used in the physical self-study room.
"Whether it is an online or offline study room, it is the most important thing to make reasonable use of it and let yourself develop good study habits." As a "student broadcast" Internet celebrity, Zhang Xiaohe does not place any items in the screen screen that may affect the attention of participants during live broadcasting, and does not shout empty and useless slogans. He also discourages discussions on learning in the comments section of the online study room. "Discussion should go to the classroom, not the study room." Zhang Xiaohe put the slogan "Self-study places do not make small talk" in the most eye-catching position on the screen.
"As a food documentary says, 'People's pursuit of five tastes is like life, there are experiences beyond survival, there is meaning and connection', and the same is true for young people who are keen on collective self-study." Li Xiaoru expressed to reporters her understanding of the phenomenon of shared self-study, shared self-study is a way for young people to pursue rich life experience and seek to establish a connection with society under the joint action of learning society and Internet life.
In September this year, after participating in the study in the interactive platform "Self-study Room" for one year, Lu Wei, a post-80s young man who worked in the Road and Bridge Design Company, achieved good results in the senior engineer title examination as desired. She compiled and edited the video of the live broadcast of the exam into a short video, "There are too many good shots, and I am reluctant to delete them." The live broadcast recorded the scene of her insisting on studying when she was sick, and her family dressed her late at night, which she had not paid attention to before, and when editing the video, she was moved to tears several times.
"This is a testimony that as a mother, I continue to struggle!" Lu Wei said, "If the child does not study well when she grows up, I will give her a good look." ”
(Reporter Peng Jinghui)
■Data
Paid study room users are showing a rapid growth trend. It is estimated that in 2021, the number of users in the country will exceed 5 million, an increase of 74.4%.
Nearly 7 paid study room users became non-student users. Among them, the proportion of ordinary employees in society was 35.2%.
From the perspective of the purpose of consumption in the paid study room, 48.6% of users went to the paid study room to prepare for job hunting, 45.1% for daily study or work, and 42.2% for online classes or writing papers.
(Source: Ai Media Consulting)