Emil Wojcik
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I have four kids, ages 19 to 30, and I recently realized the youngest two don't understand when I tell them the time is "quarter to eleven"
This seems profoundly confusing to them. When I tell them that means it's 10:45, they look at me like I'm speaking another language. Then I realized it's all because of how time is displayed on all their digital devices! As a digital display, they're so used to simply reading the time that way, any other way is just too confusing.
Wow.
Despite knowing a lot of Gen Z will never own analog watches it is still fascinating that some of those kids cannot intuitively read an analog dial! Cheers, Filip
*GASP*
so instead of teaching them to read clocks properly, we simply take them off the walls?
Yes, of course...that's the so-called educators' modus operandi these days...
Can't do math? No worry, we'll dumb down the curriculum. Can't read or write well? No problem. We'll hustle you through to graduation no matter. Oh, and we'll make you memorize oodles of minutiae but we won't deliver a critical thinking course. Stepping o...
With the influx of illiterates into some countries in Europe, there might be some truth in that, sadly. [nt]
Not my words, it was the former German Minister of Finance who said it.
Some clock faces are badly designed and harder to read the time...
There was a clock that didn't have minute hashes and the "11" was very large (all the even numbers were smaller and the odd numbers were larger). So at 10:55, I read the clock incorrectly as 11:55, but then I realized that wasn't possible since it was too...
I have four kids, ages 19 to 30, and I recently realized the youngest two don't understand when I tell them the time is "quarter to eleven"
This seems profoundly confusing to them. When I tell them that means it's 10:45, they look at me like I'm speaking another language. Then I realized it's all because of how time is displayed on all their digital devices! As a digital display, they're so u...
Well...
I cringe at the thought that the next generation would trade a heirloom Patek for the latest easier-to-read Apple watch
But there is app for analog clock on every smart phone ?!
Anyway. As a president of some well-known country would say in a tweet: “Sad!” ...
Pretty soon these post-Gen Z generations
will not be able to tell what time it is unless Alexa/Google Assistant/Siri verbally tells them.
Maybe, all babies get a timing chip inplanted at birth...
... in a few years. We're full steam (who will understand this phrase?) heading towards science fiction phantasies... and not the most optimistic ones. Marcus
As an educator, I am truly not surprised.
We have been instructed that if a student is caught cheating on any exam, it's an administrative issue. Not the classroom teacher. Therefore no penalty can be given. No zero on said exam. They must be allowed to retake the exam.
So sad!
A friend of mine just told me yesterday that in Italy they are not teaching kids anymore how to read the clock (he has a 7 year old daughter), so he has to teach her, such a shame
However, I recall this having been always the job of the parents ...
... at least over here. Generally, though, it is easy to notice how the homes are failing to supply the kids with even the most basic everyday knowledge, so the school has to spend the shorter time (less hours in school than before, no Saturdays, for exam...
Could be a case where there weren’t enough clocks in the room...
Some of those exam halls are converted sports arenas, after all. People will latch onto anything to excuse poor performance, especially when the ego is at risk. I wore a Seiko Kinetic quartz watch when I wrote exams all those years ago. Perhaps there’s an...
Luckily our public elementary school still teaches to tell time. My 7 y-o daughter just learnt to.
And she nicely reads the old way, like 10 to 8, instead of 7.50. Just wish she will remember in the future! Best, Max
Having been publisher of a US math curriculum, I can tell you that “teaching how to tell time” is the math teacher’s responsibility
But they also have to teach calendars and seasons and hours minutes seconds, etc in “addition” to arithmetic, geometry, algebra, etc. So analog time falls by the wayside. BTW in general curricula have also given up teaching Roman Numerals and what those s...