Schools Are Removing Analogue Clocks From Exam Halls As Teenagers Cannot Tell The Time

[Estro Felino]

Because it's pretty useless and there are children with fine motor skills disorders than will never learn. My cursive was always terrible and there was a point I reached where I gave up. It seems to me to be more of an artistic skill - some have that skill, some don't. I don't think it's fair to push it on everyone. IMO it's like telling someone off for not being able to draw very well. Add to this I have very small handwriting, cursive makes it downright illegible.

I remember my terrorist-teacher used to yell at me because I was supposed to write a perfect L in cursive.
Well...we Italians are supposed to write in Italics

 

[Mock Turtle]

Our English teacher, a very nice oldish woman, had us doing interrupted cursive, so we had some discretion as to where to do this.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

"Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.

Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.

Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said youngsters have become accustomed to using digital devices.

“The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations,” he told The Telegraph.

“They are used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone, on their computer. Nearly everything they’ve got is digital so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere.”
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This has got to be the head-shaker of the month.

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They can't use typewriters, either! Or hitch horses! What's with that??

 

[Glaurung]

I haven't had a digital watch for many decades - just annoying - much better to have a solar-powered, radio-timed analogue, like a Citizen Eco-Drive - a bit chunky though.

I got a really nice one not too long ago. Very close but not identical to this.
AW5005-12X | Citizen Watch Europe

 

[Revoltingest]

I wonder what'll happen if these students ever drive an
older car with analog speedometers, gas gauges, etc?

 

[Mock Turtle]

I got a really nice one not too long ago. Very close but not identical to this.
AW5005-12X | Citizen Watch Europe

I think mine is this:

CB0021-57E | Citizen Watch Europe

Quite like it, apart from the fiddly bit for changing Summer Time when I screwed up the automatic doing of so.

 

[Subduction Zone]

On a more serious note, we're getting old. The youth of today will have no idea how wonderful modems sounded like when connecting.

I remember when 30 character per second (300 baud) was "fast". At that time people that wanted to print out "porn" used characters to for different degrees of darkness and a very crude image of a centerfold took minutes to print.

 

[Jumi]

I remember when 30 character per second (300 baud) was "fast". At that time people that wanted to print out "porn" used characters to for different degrees of darkness and a very crude image of a centerfold took minutes to print.

I missed the glory days of the 300 bauds, but I did witness a... picture on a two color monitor, green on black background. It was really confusing so the guys showing it to me thought I was really into it.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Well, we were so poor ..... we used to dream of having 300 baud ...... we really had it tough .......

 

[Twilight Hue]

"Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.

Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.

Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said youngsters have become accustomed to using digital devices.

“The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations,” he told The Telegraph.

“They are used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone, on their computer. Nearly everything they’ve got is digital so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere.”
source

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This has got to be the head-shaker of the month.

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Well they're in a school aren't they?

Couldn't the teachers .....you know.... maybe...I dunno.......... teach them?

Yeah I admit, it's a mad idea.

I'm thinking teaching time is not covered in the union contract.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Because it's pretty useless and there are children with fine motor skills disorders who will never learn. My cursive was always terrible and there was a point I reached where I gave up. It seems to me to be more of an artistic skill - some have that skill, some don't. I don't think it's fair to push it on everyone. IMO it's like telling someone off for not being able to draw very well. Add to this I have small handwriting, cursive makes it downright illegible.

I think we should just drop it all and just teach cuneiform.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I understand how someone accustomed to digital time may have trouble with an analog clock.

But really, just get an analog watch and practice with it for a few days.

To kids these days, your the late Stephen Hawkings. They'll never get up to that level of genius telling time. It's just too haaarrrd!!!

 

[Twilight Hue]

Apparently a lot of schools are also dropping cursive.

I wonder how they're going to sign their legal name on documents and forms.

I'm guessing a big....

X

 

[Skwim]

Well they're in a school aren't they?

Couldn't the teachers .....you know.... maybe...I dunno.......... teach them?

Yeah I admit, it's a mad idea.

I'm thinking teaching time is not covered in the union contract.

I guess I feel learning to tell time is like learning to tie one's shoes, or understanding the order of the day and being able to use time words such as "morning" and "night." Children should come to school already knowing these things.

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[Kangaroo Feathers]

I guess I feel learning to tell time is like learning to tie one's shoes, or understanding the order of the day and being able to use time words such as "morning" and "night." Children should come to school already knowing these things.

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And what's with all these secretaries and reporters who don't even know shorthand??! Next thing you know, they won't even know how to knap spearheads from flint or light a fire with steel and tinder!

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

I guess I feel learning to tell time is like learning to tie one's shoes, or understanding the order of the day and being able to use time words such as "morning" and "night." Children should come to school already knowing these things.

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Being able to tell time and use words like morning and night is hardly dependent on familiarity with analogue clocks. I'm guessing you can't read hieroglyphics, that doesn't mean you're illiterate.

Whenever these "young people today are lazy and stupid because they can't do things we thought were normal when we were kids" articles comes out, to put it in perspective, ask yourself what your parents thought was a normal, every day activity that you couldn't do to save yourself? And maybe more importantly, what can these kids who don't know analogue time do that you can't?

 

[Father Heathen]

I wonder what'll happen if these students ever drive an
older car with analog speedometers, gas gauges, etc?

Will self-driving cars becoming a thing, we'll soon be complaining about kids not being able to drive.

 

[Revoltingest]

Will self-driving cars becoming a thing, we'll soon be complaining about kids not being able to drive.

That's already becoming true in cities like NYC.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Will self-driving cars becoming a thing, we'll soon be complaining about kids not being able to drive.

It's a culture of helplessness we are raising.

 

[Father Heathen]

It's a culture of helplessness we are raising.

I love technology and how its developing, but we shouldn't be dependent upon it, because you never know what could happen to local infrastructure, even if temporarily.