Posted on 05/04/2018 7:35:01 AM PDT by caww
“It is amazing the number of students I am coming across in year 10, 11 and in sixth form who do not know how to tell the time,” she began. “We live in a world where everything is digital. We are moving towards a digital age and they do not necessarily have analogue watches anymore and they have mobile phones with the time on.”
Teachers in the U.K. wrote about the situation on social media, with a “Mrs Keenan” tweeting that digital clocks had been installed in an exam hall. Another, Nicola Towle, wrote in a tweet, according to the BBC: “Our school has replaced the analogue clock with a digital one in the hall for exams because pupils couldn’t use it to tell the time.”
The situation isn’t only present in the U.K., though.
A 2017 survey in Oklahoma City found that only 1-in-10 children in the city between the ages of 6-12 owned a watch. Of that number, only 1-in-5 knew how to read the analog watches, according to KFOR.
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My mother taught me to tell time on a clock with Roman numerals when I was 4 (IV). I could read the numbers but the frustrating thing for me was that there were 5 minutes passed when the long hand went from I to II or from II to III, not 1 minute. I now have an analog clock in my kitchen with Japanese numbers for my kids to enjoy.
My cellphone has a fancy steampunk clock background that tell the time.
But I’m old.
I guess it would be asking too much for teachers to teach kids how to tell time.
If they cannot tell time or any other sort of deficiency, the solution is for teachers to teach them - radical I know.
"...technologies..."
I wish I had a sextant. That would be so much fun. This weekend I am teaching my daughter to calculate her location’s latitude by measuring her shadow at solar noon.
My neighbors new rx350l has an analog clock on the dash.
IIRC, the Air Force’s Pilot Aptitude Test in the 70’s was heavily weighted towards reading analog gauges and choosing the correct reading. Now I think it went a little beyond just telling if a pilot candidate could read the amount of fuel remaining. Would the best explanation be judging critical thinking skills? One might think teaching students to read a clock would be an essential step in teaching students how to think. And heaven help our digital babies them when the EMP comes.
Give all kids a clock reading test. If they fail, stuff them all into one of those old aircraft carriers they sink to form artificial reefs. How are they not learning to read a clock, even at home?? If you are older than 7 years old and can’t read a clock, you are truly hopeless.
NO wonder the UK is now a slave state. Poor Alfie, May God personally care for you in heaven.
I was thinking that myself!! Thanks for todays best LOL!!!!
The big hand is on “dumb” and the little hand is on “ass”. So what time is it Johnny?
when I homeschooled I removed all digital clocks from the house.
They learned, it was like breathing. by age six all could tell time.
I suspect that analog clock reading requires a higher level of abstraction than some of their students can ever muster.
Shows how so many of today’s parents are leaving all teaching to the state. And ablets and TVs. Except in third world and muzzie countries, where parents more direct their kids and their thinking.
They have created an entire generation of tech-savvy embiciles. No wonder everything is so f’d up.
I’m more worried about engineers who can’t use slide rules, mechanics who can’t fix carburetors, and students who can’t use buggy whips.
Imbeciles. Aaaargh
Dumbing down children. This is a sin.
One thing I've learned in my time as a teacher is that it is nigh impossible to teach somebody something they have absolutely NO INTEREST in knowing.
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