NYC teachers stunned to learn students can’t read old clocks amid phone ban
www.independent.co.uk
At least 31 states and the District of Columbia restrict cell phones in schools

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.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Says the guy who apparently can only sting together an insult.

      Stuff changes. Each generation does things differently. Stone Age people probably said the same thing when they stopped teaching their children to flintknap after everyone started using bronze tools.

      We abandon old technology when it becomes obsolete, and eventually the skills associated with them. And that’s normal.

      We don’t have enough hours in a lifetime to learn all the stuff we’ve abandoned, and analog clock faces are going that way. It’s okay. This is normal.