We learned how to read analog clocks in Kindergarten. I wear an analog wristwatch and people my age ask me how I can read it. Worrisome
Phew before that took them ages to remove sundials
Really? Wow. I guess it's just natural to me to read analogue clocks since I've been teached that when I was little, too. Shows how times are changing.
This must be an American problem. I've never seen or heard of anyone here in Australia like that.
You wear a late rating on your wrist? What good does that do?
Well, the article is about the UK, so it's at least a problem in both the US and UK.
Shit, you're right.
Yo...how about instead of removing them, you teach them?
I don't get it. What is there to not understand about reading analogue clocks?
Can see how this happens, even if it feels totally foreign to me. I find this part of the article more worrisome.
Earlier this year, a senior paediatric doctor warned that children are
increasingly finding it hard to hold pens and pencils because of an
excessive use of technology. Sally Payne, the head paediatric
occupational therapist at the Heart of England foundation NHS Trust,
said that when children are given a pencil at school, they are
increasingly unable to hold it.
“To be able to grip a pencil and move it, you need strong control of
the fine muscles in your fingers. Children need lots of opportunity to
develop those skills," she said.
"It’s easier to give a child an iPad than encouraging them to do
muscle-building play such as building blocks, cutting and sticking, or
pulling toys and ropes. Because of this, they’re not developing the
underlying foundation skills they need to grip and gold a pencil."
A digital clock definitely help with telling the exact time more quickly while under stress, but that is such a sad excuse for not wanting to learn how to read an analogue clock.
If you've never been taught how, you won't know how. We aren't born with this knowledge. Do you know how to use a sextant?
If it's not on the standardized tests, it won't be taught.
I'll admit im pretty terrible at telling the time analog, i often mix myself up between quarter to and past. I can easily convert it to digital but some people give me strange looks at times because of this.
On the bright side, at least peoples hand wlriting is going to make mine look decent in comparison. I feel like if i was born at this time period i wouldn't be surprised if i didn't use a pen or pencil at all because of ny hands.
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If things are like this now, can you imagine what it will be like when we are controlling GUI's with headsets and contact lenses for screens?
Jeepers.
Clocks aren't sextants or abacuses. You should be able to read a clock at five years old. Analog clocks aren't going anywhere, nor should they.
wait what the hell? is this for real? obviously digital is easier but ive been able to read an analog clock pretty much instantly without any effort since i was about 9
its not a tough concept...it takes maybe an hour to learn it
Honest question: Why shouldn't analog clocks retire?
how worrisome is it really, tho? it's easy to frame this as the dumbing down of a generation, but let's face it, it's becoming a less and less useful skill.
mind you, it's not like that's gonna stop me from fucking with younger people who don't know how to tell the time. millions will be awed by my ability to decipher these ancient mechanisms
Digital watches are not /fa/ unless you're a combat soldier wearing a G-shock. Youth of today got shit tastes smh fam
Aesthetics, seriously they look better in certain situations.
And not really surprised by this, still have issues telling the time with an analog compared to a digital mostly because I've gotta stop and look at it to figure out what its saying, with digital its just right there in numerical form.
The fine motor skills being under developed and hindering holding pens and stuff is concerning though.
"It’s easier to give a child an iPad than encouraging them to do muscle-building play such as building blocks, cutting and sticking, or pulling toys and ropes. Because of this, they’re not developing the underlying foundation skills they need to grip and gold [SIC] a pencil."
To me this is just showing a predominant shift in parenting and its not good, kids should at least be doing active things to help their development.
thats more of an issue with schools tbh. When i was a kid, I hated writing because it cramped my hands half the time. In pre-K to 5th grade they had us writing constantly. In fact after school was done, i rarely write anything at all because everything is digital.
You're right parenting pretty much is the issue.
Working in hospitality you see too many parents giving their kids ipads with cartoons or whatever on them at dinner tables just to keep them quiet.
And then the adults are all there in silence sitting on their own respective phones.
I just don't see what there is to get? They aren't complicated devices. Presumably the teenagers in question still have a concept of AM and PM time, yes?
I'm really not trying to have a go, I genuinely don't understand how people could have trouble reading them at the age of a teenager.
Context.
Digital clocks are much easier to read at a glance, especially when subtracting the current time from the exam end time to find the leftover time.
Analog clocks are fine if you are not pressed for time.
They have one major advantage over aesthetics, and that's that you can make analog clocks that don't require electricity to operate. You should always know how to read one, even if you prefer digital, for that alone.
This is great, I look forward to working with today's high schoolers in 5-10 years time and having to teach them basic skills they should've learned at the age of 5 because their parents couldn't be arsed.
They're not complicated but they're not very intuitive either.
Some of the things that made it hard for me were multiplying by 5 to get the minutes, if it was 3:59 the hour hand would look like it was on 4 so I would read 4:59 instead, the hour hand being shorter than the minutes hand confused me for a while.
I can read them now but it still takes me a few seconds versus a digital.
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