Don't fix the problem just change the parameters
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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.
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Every year I taught for the past 30 years I have heard this but I will say that every year I had to go over how to read a clock at the beginning of the year and every time a kid would ask me what time it is I would point at the clock and ask them what time they think it is? At least they left the class knowing how to read a clock even though they were shit at writing essays.
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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/
Thank you for posting that.
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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.
Long before you honey
Are you sure, sweetie.
it must've taken you a LOT of time and energy to master.
Around 10 minutes. Not that you would be able to read this from an analogue clock...
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Long before you honey
Are you sure, sweetie.
it must've taken you a LOT of time and energy to master.
Around 10 minutes. Not that you would be able to read this from an analogue clock...
wrote last edited by [email protected]Are you sure, sweetie.
More sure than your parents when you were born sweetie.
Around 10 minutes.
Highly doubt it. A lot of people know how to read analog clocks but not many defend it like their life depends on it. It must've taken you majority of your childhood to learn it, if you're so proud of that trivial skill.
Buuutt, since u don't even know how to read, that's not really a surprise.Not that you can read all this without text-to-speech xD
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The way they taught us cursive was the complete opposite of the intent of cursive. Rigidly proscribed characters with marks only for form, ignoring all function. It was agonizingly tedious and physically painful writing all of those nonsensical scrawls. I immediately switched back to my own chicken scratch after grade school because it was not only orders of magnitude faster, but at least didn't make my hand painfully seize up into a claw.
Decades later, as my handwriting evolved, a number of my own script letters began to resemble those wretched cursive runes, because I had apparently blindly stumbled upon the actual correct method for writing to flow from nib to parchment, as opposed to whatever those torturous rituals scarred me with as a child.
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Are you sure, sweetie.
More sure than your parents when you were born sweetie.
Around 10 minutes.
Highly doubt it. A lot of people know how to read analog clocks but not many defend it like their life depends on it. It must've taken you majority of your childhood to learn it, if you're so proud of that trivial skill.
Buuutt, since u don't even know how to read, that's not really a surprise.Not that you can read all this without text-to-speech xD
Highly doubt
That doesn't surprise me at all since you are still unable to learn such a simple thing after all these years, sweetie.
No wonder your bunch elected Trump for the second time. You don't learn.
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Highly doubt
That doesn't surprise me at all since you are still unable to learn such a simple thing after all these years, sweetie.
No wonder your bunch elected Trump for the second time. You don't learn.
Just give it up you're not winning this argument
Anyone sane would have realised this is a useless thing to fight over
Either that or you're a troll
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Highly doubt
That doesn't surprise me at all since you are still unable to learn such a simple thing after all these years, sweetie.
No wonder your bunch elected Trump for the second time. You don't learn.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Lol no one wants that orange clown. How tf did this get political even LMFAOAOAOAO. You're so run out of arguments, you had to bring in a politician into an argument about analog and digital clocks. You're the most unintentionally ridiculous guy I've bumped into on this platform
That doesn’t surprise me at all since you are still unable to learn such a simple thing after all these years, sweetie
Not me taking pride in a trivial thing I learnt. Just shows how hard it was for you. I learnt it and didn't make a big deal out of it, cuz Ik anyone could learn it if they wanted to.
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Are we being serious right now bro?!
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Teenagers not being able to tell the time from analogue clocks is CRAZY (saying this as a teenager myself)
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I just found out my 10yo has been lagging behind in spelling because he's been using speech-to-text on his school issued iPad for class work. He doesn't have to think about it or try sounding it out, so of course an unpracticed in-development skill is waning. It's going to be an interesting parent-teacher meeting coming up.
Is it a feature you can disable on the iPad? I never considered that kids would be doing that. My spelling was never great but I just always chalked it up to the way my brain worked. Even when I spent a couple years in college spending most of my free time reading books both to myself and our loud to my partner I still didn't remember how certain words were spelt because I often didn't write them. If I never wrote them as you are saying I imagine it would have been much worse.
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I am in the transition age range of people who have trouble reading analog clocks and I must admit I had trouble with it until I started wearing a watch as an accessory as a teenager. The issue isn't that it's hard, it's just something that you need practice at to do quickly and a lot of young people just don't look at analog clocks to tell time very often. It's not a matter of being stupid or not being taught how to do it, it's like mental "muscle memory" that just isn't built up in a world where digital clocks are everywhere, including in your pocket 24/7
Watches were pretty ubiquitous before the smart phone was popularized. Though, digital watches were common since the '80s, so I'm not sure how much that really figures in. There is some truth, though, in needing to regularly do it to keep the skill.
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I loved when a class would get quiet enough to hear the seconds hand click on the mechanical motor. I lived to see how close it was to the end of minute. One time in class I counted how black dots were on the ceiling. Wow I was bored
I counted the dots along the x axis, multiplied by the y axis count and took that as an estimate for the tile. Then did the same with the number of tiles across the ceiling. Then multiplied that by the number of classrooms... Same with the floor tiles. There was no end to it.
