Don't fix the problem just change the parameters
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I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,...
Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?
Learning to read the clock was like... A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.
Yes.
I used to have some complex thinking I was slow at reading time in an analog watch, these days I feel much more confident.
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Being older (mid fifties) I was taught the analogue clock.
My eyes no longer work so well for reading, and an analogue clock face allows you to see the hands and know the time without having to work out where I've left my glasses.
On my phone's sleep screen I'm using large high contrast digits so I guess I'm using both styles.
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They are too loud, I had to insist to put the clock down and take the batteries out, since the ticking was too loud.
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Have you learned how to use the clock yet?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Long before you honey. But you still haven't learnt to read I see.
And judging by the way you're flexing that single useless skill, it must've taken you a LOT of time and energy to master.
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"Old technology" like, hammers, spoons and books
Let's get rid of the wheel. That crap was invented ages ago.Update: and if you can't read a sun dial - which by the way is just reading the number the freaking shadow points at - the US should seriously consider teaching stuff like that again.
...which by the way is just reading the number the freaking shadow points at...
And how do you read an analog clock? By looking at the number the arm points at. Learning how to read the clock is not just "what number is it on" but it's getting familiar with the clock face so you can read it quickly. It's like the difference between spelling and reading.
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Being "taught" cursive in school was torture, anyway.
I was taught block lettering in technical drafting class, 8th grade. Cursive is a lettering specifically created to be easy to handwrite. It flows on paper, as opposed to the repetitive short strokes of block lettering.
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This article is old enough to buy cigarettes now.
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What kind of boomer would believe this nonsense?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
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This article is old enough to buy cigarettes now.
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I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,...
Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?
Learning to read the clock was like... A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.
Learning to read the clock was like… A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.
Yes, this meme is pretty obviously fake.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
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To the title, that's always been the case.
"no child left behind" turned into "make it easier until everyone passes"
Shit isn't new. it's been going on for a long, long ass time.wrote last edited by [email protected]Shit isn't new and it hasn't always been the case.
It's fake.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
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What was scribbled out of this screenshot with black lines, and why was it scribbled out?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Maybe it was the link to Snopes explaining how this is fake?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
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I think removing everything that kids have a bit of a hard time trying to grasp just teaches kids to give up if anything isn't immediately apparent. Its not as much of a waste of time as cursive, and it's to be taught to think in another way.
I think that kids "learning how to learn" is really important, especially with how these AI models are stunting like a whole generation of people.
This is minor,
but I also think less things need electronic displays/components that are hard to recycle and increase dependency on exploiting X country for Y resource. Its also cool to just be able to build a physical mechanism which digital clocks have no real feasible option to doIt's extremely minor because it's extremely fake.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
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This has got to be AI written or cherry picked data. They’re pulling clocks to save a few $ if anything. Old schools used to have synchronized analog systems. I could easily see those things being removed.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes, it's very easy to debunk this nonsense. I'm kind of amazed that nobody but me has googled this.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
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Analogue clocks are a great example of kids having to understand a concept and apply it. And it's simple enough that anyone can learn it.
I often see examples where children are required to memorize a set solution, instead of showing understanding and reaching the solutions themselves.
These clocks are somewhat dated, but removing them just feels like another symptom of a failing educational system.
These clocks are somewhat dated, but removing them just feels like another symptom of a failing educational system.
Don't worry because it's a fake story.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
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First: Some UK teachers exchanged the analogue with digital clocks. This was only to reduce interruptions by some students (during a specific kind of UK exams), who had trouble determining the remaining time in the heat of the exam battle.
Secondly: The use of analogue clocks is taught at UK schools. What's missing is the practice that former generations of pupils had. No more wristwatches, public clocks all but gone, and (what I am nostalgically missing from my youth) no more peeking onto parked car's dashboards to read the analogue clock there. Times have changed, and this specific partially lost ability is not the schools' fault. (Not to say that other things aren't...)
Can we please bury that stupid old meme, as it has been based on some inaccurate buzz and largely giving a completely inaccurate impression of the topic from the start...
Support. First reasonable comment in here.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
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One part of me wants to feel disappointed that kids aren't learning to read analog clocks, but another part of me thinks there was a time when people grew disappointed that the younger generations stopped learning to use an abacus in favor of digital calculators. I certainly don't want some old geezer giving me shit because I don't want to learn to use an abacus. I also don't want to be that old geezer.
wrote last edited by [email protected]No need to feel disappointed about fake news.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
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Well who would ever disagree with a Snopes article
People who believe memes are real.
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Are people really this stupid now?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Just the people who believe this nonsense.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
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What kind of boomer would believe this nonsense?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
Some ppl who just badly want to be angry.
