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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.
I can confirm. You are not insane.
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
I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks,
Some of these comments are made by lazy idiots arguing that there is nothing wrong with being lazy idiot.
Throughout middle school and high school, my bedroom clock was one of these, just the mechanism, no face, no numbers, hanging off the edge of a shelf. I had no trouble reading it. I still can easily read an analog clock with no numbers or any face marks.
Congratulations! ⭐
To be fair if you are never exposed to it (and judging by the comments that seems to have happened in the US) you can't tell the time by "just looking at it". But analog clocks are objectively simpler to teach to children (let's say three to eight years old).
I don’t know, I’ve never particularly liked analogue clocks. I don’t think I ever thought of them as difficult to read, but it’s far superior to look at an exact number like digital usually features.
Disagree - it rarely matters to me if it's 13:24:56 or 13:25:05, but I do find the instant and intuitive gauging of time deltas super useful (as in, how long it's going to be to the full hour / to quarter past / ... ). Not saying you can't get that info from a digital clock as well, of course you can; but the physicality of analog clocks lends a good bit of intuition to this, I feel.
I get that, but I personally find that I often do care about the exact time, down to the minutes, and that's harder to track with an analogue clock. I don't have particular problems in reading them, I just often prefer digital clocks.
But I will agree that I feel analogue clocks give a better vibe of the time, since its basically a pie chart of how far you are in the day.
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.
I don't really get it. Snopes says "mostly false", but then confirms that the UK made a recommendation to replace analog clock for digital ones because "some students had trouble estimating the remaining time".
While OOP is a shortcut/overgeneralization, it doesn't sound "mostly false" to me.
It could be to deal with learning disabilities not the average kid which makes it mostly false.
Also a recommendation doesn’t mean it happened.
Imagine falling for this boomer rage bait when half the details are obviously and clearly censored.
I had to check the community to verify I accidentally opened c/fakeconservativememes.
It was a relief when I realized this wasn't c/Lemmy Shitpost.
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.
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.
Teenagers not being able to tell the time from analogue clocks is CRAZY (saying this as a teenager myself)
They can't use a slide rule either. What are they teaching in these schools??
If the yung-uns have no drive to turn back time and actually use and develop their brains, because my gen isn't going to rescue them and the boomers have also fallen into the internet trap. It's on them to save themselves, really.
If these trends keep going the way they are then idiocracy becomes reality.
Idiocracy won't happen.
The smart people aren't going to prepare a solution. And the planet will probably cook before then anyway.
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.
The less educated a populous is, the less likely they are to think critically, think for themselves, and ultimately the easier they are to control.
It's getting really bad. Some people even use "populous" when they mean "populace."
It's getting so bad that some people even put the period INSIDE the quotation mark at the end of a sentence!
Do the blackboards in the US also say "breathe in, breathe out, repeat" so that half the class doesn't just die?
No that's silly, there's no guarantee that they could read that.
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/
Next schools will start removing textbooks because students cannot read. They will replace with audio books.
Father, I cannot click the book!
Schools removing books as teenagers cannot read them.
