cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41056130
At least 31 states and the District of Columbia restrict cell phones in schools
New York City teachers say the state’s recently implemented cell phone ban in schools has showed that numerous students no longer know how to tell time on an old-fashioned clock.
“That’s a major skill that they’re not used to at all,” Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, told Gothamist of what she’s noticed after the ban, which went into effect in September.
Students in the city’s school system are meant to learn basic time-telling skills in the first and second grade, according to officials, though it appears children have fallen out of practice doing so in an increasingly digital world.
Pains me that the article calls them “old” clocks and not “analog” clocks.
I heard a story about a kid telling an adult that they couldn’t read “circle time.” That any better?
Only slightly! 😂
Behold, your analog clock.
🎵Then put your little hand in mine!🎵
Wow, arguably my favorite movie, but it took me way too long…
🎵Then put your little hand in mine!🎵
Because they are fucking old. Old clocks. Useless clocks. Not a skill worth teaching, except as an anachronism when explaining why Big Ben and similar building clocks work the way they do.
Increasingly? Brother, we’re already there. It’s all digital. Have you seen the internet yet?
Schools haven’t adapted solely out of spite, to propagate this self-fulfilling cycle of teaching how they work, so that their own students can read school clocks. As soon as they leave the school zone, that knowledge is practically useless to them.
Not sure what kind of sequestered live you lead but schools are definitely not the only place you encounter them. Analog wall clocks and watch faces are still reasonably common.
Nope, not really. You occasionally find them in some old government building, but only because it’s always existed that way, and they just don’t want to bother replacing it with a modern digital clock.
This line of thinking is the same as saying cursive writing is worth teaching.
Lol we bought one from IKEA recently.
Cursive is a font optimized for hand writing.
I don’t use analog clocks, but they are arguably easier to read with worse vision.
They are very rare in public spaces over here. Pretty much only elderly have them in their homes
I didn’t know 12 year olds were on lemmy
/c/summerlemmy