记者 周幸子

3月29日晚7点，由Mr. Mitch Margolis主持的讲座在丽泽楼C107成功举行。本次讲座的主题是“Is the Internet Making Us Dumber”。

Mr. Mitch Margolis先是列举了网络给生活带来的一系列改变，并特别强调网络给人们带来的最大益处是能让人们随时获得他们想了解的任何信息或事物〽️，但这点也恰恰是它最大的弊端。太多不重要的信息在不知不觉中浪费了人们很多时间，同时也分散了他们的注意力。他举例说，以前他能用整个下午的时间专心埋首在一本书中，但现在，在网络各种各样的诱惑下，他甚至不能坚持10分钟✍️🏟。

另一方面，网络在人际交往中也发挥着很大的作用🎎。Mr. Mitch Margolis 现在在网上有100多个好友。他认为，网络能让人广泛交友🔐，但不能使他们学会如何使用身体语言等技能。网络给予人的仅仅是知识，如何把它活用到生活中则需要人们的智慧。随着网络的飞速发展☕️，人们的思维模式也在逐渐改变🆔🥑，有人提出网络会降低人的思考能力👩🏼‍💼，更有偏激的人说网络会毁了他们以往平和的生活☝🏼。但Mr. Margolis认为👩‍👦，网络本来就是把双刃剑，不能把一切消极的变化都归咎于它。毕竟网络是死的，真正能改变能影响人的，只有他们自己🙇🏿🧚🏽‍♂️。

为了配合这个和同学们息息相关的话题，Mr. Mitch Margolis在演讲时并不是站在讲台上，而是很随意地到处走动🦅，形式更趋向于聊天👨‍👨‍👦🚵。这使得在座同学都比较放松，教室里不时爆发出阵阵笑声。直至讲座结束，仍有不少同学围着他继续相关问题的探讨。

A Lecture: Is the Internet Making Us Dumber?

By Zhou Xingzi

At 7 p.m. on March 29th, Mr. Mitch Margolis, an overseas teacher from SFL, held a lecture named Is the Internet Making us Dumber? in Lize Building Room C107.

First of all, Mr. Mitch Margolis listed changes of daily life brought by the Internet. He pointed out that the biggest advantage of Internet was to provide any information anytime you want. However, it was also the biggest disadvantage, because too much unnecessary information could distract your attention from the important things and waste your time. He said that he used to read a book for a whole afternoon, but now tempted by the Internet he couldn’t concentrate for even 10 minutes.

The Internet also influenced our way of communication. Mr. Mitch Margolis has more than 100 friends on the Internet now. Through his life experience, he thought that Internet could help you make friends, but it couldn’t teach you some important communication skills, such as body language.

With the development of Internet, people''s thinking model has been changed as well. As a result, someone claimed that the Internet would harm our thinking ability, or even ruin our peaceful life. But Mr. Mitch Margolis thought that the network, a double-edged sword, was just a tool. People shouldn’t blame it for all the negative aspects, because it was people who decided their own changes.

During the lecture, Mr. Mitch Margolis walked around the classroom instead of just standing on the stage, which contributed to a relaxing atmosphere of communication between teachers and students. After the lecture, some students still discussed the related topics with him.