Maybe I am wrong, but I don’t really think it’s a big deal. How many of you would need a sextant to drive across the country? There are some technologies that will eventually fade away, and even though I LOVE my analog watches, there are bigger fish to fry than to fret over kids that can’t read analog clocks.
"...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.
True. We don’t learn how to use and abacus, an adding machine and we don’t learn shorthand anymore.
Well I just will say that “digital anything’ is NOT reliable...it’s like everything else in technology..they race to get it out there and then spend years fixing what happens soon after, or don’t bother at all because the next generation is already on the table.
I have a ‘back up’ push button phone that has come in very handy when there’s an electricity black out. Thus I am still able to communicate even if all else is off. Also because I have internet through the phone company rather than cable I never have a creep along download etc.
or read and write cursive. Or think. They are just fads...