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.
I taught my gen-z kid to read an analog clock because I knew no one else would. I know he learned it.
He’s 27 now, and living back at home. Recently, we were in the kitchen and the cat was asking to be fed. He said, “I don’t think it’s time yet…” and then went to his room to check the time on his phone. The same analog clock he learned to read is on the wall in the kitchen, where it’s been his entire life. Apparently, he didn’t practice at all after I taught him and tested him on it, and now can’t read it? I dunno, I didn’t ask, I didn’t want to make a whole thing out of it.
Well, I can convert it, but it takes time. I’ve been told that people who think in analog time rather view it as a kind of progress bar and only convert it to the exact minute number when they are asked for the time by somebody else.
Like a foreign language, use it or lose it.