A Study on the Current Situation of Higher Education Students' Learning Power in the Information Age

Abstract

World history tells us that science and technology are the fundamental driving force behind the progress of human civilization. According to Alvin Toffler, today  human society is experiencing the third wave after agricultural and industrial civilization, which means that human civilization has entered a modern stage. This means that human civilization has entered a new stage, namely the era of knowledge economy and information age, which is characterized by the rapid development of the Internet, rapid improvement of science and technology, and continuous upgrading of economic and industrial structures. What accompany with the information age are speed, changeability and crisis, which will undoubtedly bring us more opportunities and challenges. It can be said that the 21st century information age is the age of learning, and the core of human development is also learning. This calls for us to continuously improve our learning ability, to learn faster and faster to better adapt to the needs of social change and development and our own growth. The learning power is the core and key to thinking power and creativity. For higher vocational students, in the information age of rapid development and knowledge multiplication, technology is constantly developing and progressing, and jobs are constantly changing. The only way to get core competitiveness is to keep pace with the times and update their learning methods and concepts, and improve their learning power.