Dialogue - Pol Andreu

Two teachers are discussing the rights and wrongs of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a school subject. Write down their conversation.

Teacher 1: Excuse me! We should talk about ICT classes.

Teacher 2: Tell me! I don’t have too much time…

Teacher 1: Last night I was surfing the Internet and I saw an article about modern technologies. It explains how damaging are these on young minds and how these effects on pupils’ development.

Teacher 2: It sounds curious! But by the way you have said it I suppose isn’t such a positive article. What does it say?

Teacher 1: You’re right! It exposes the big amount of time that young people spend using these technologies and how unhealthy is being exposed during a long period of time. Also, the article concludes that families and teachers should act on that with the objective of improving our pupils’ mental development.

Teacher 2: Really? I wasn’t expecting that… I had heard about it, but actually I wasn’t conscious about how damaging were these.

Teacher 1: So, I have a proposal… I’ve been thinking and I consider we might modify our subject. We could either change the way how we use electronic devices or we could remove it from the school.

Teacher 2: I agree your proposal, but we must keep the students’ education in mind. Nowadays, technologies are the power of the world and in a few years all the things that you can see right now will be working with some type of technology.

Teacher 1: Oh, that’s a good point I hadn’t considered! As I see it’s an interesting topic, I think that we should gather this afternoon to talk about it.

Pol Andreu