TECHNOLOGY DISCUSSION. TECHNOLOGY DISCUSSION

TECHNOLOGY DISCUSSION

STUDENT AХs QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

1)	What springs to mind when you hear the word ФtechnologyХ?
2)	Is technology a good or a bad thing?
3)	What new technology could you not live without?
4)	Do you like reading about technology?
5)	Do you like using technology to learn?
6)	What do you think very old people think of modern technology?
7)	How has technology changed society?
8)	Has technology made us more impatient?
9)	Max Frisch said: " Technology is the knack of arranging the world so that we don't have to experience it. " Do you agree with him?
10)	Mark Kennedy said: " All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - say little about his intelligence, but speak volumes about his laziness. " Do you agree?

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TECHNOLOGY DISCUSSION

STUDENT BХs QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

1)	What do you think of todayХs technology?
2)	What do you think of tomorrowХs technology?
3)	Do you think weХve become obsessed with technology?
4)	Do you always trust technology?
5)	Does technology ever let you down?
6)	What things would you never let technology replace?
7)	Has technology made our lives better than our grandparentsХ lives?
8)	What technology is dangerous?
9)	Frank Lloyd Wright said: " If it [technology] keeps up, man will waste away all his limbs but the push-button finger. " What does this mean? Do you like this quote?
10)	Alan M. Eddison said: " Modern technology... Owes ecology... An apology. " What does this mean? Do you agree?