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[–] loaExMachina 186 points 4 months ago (70 children)

I know someone said more or less the same thing when it was posted on Tumblr, but if the schools realize most of their students don't know a thing they should know... Shouldn't they teach it?

[–] [email protected] 91 points 4 months ago (1 children)

its not in their standardized tests and that's the only thing that determines funding. Its a nightmare ...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Apparently it’s literally in the standardised tests… that’s what’s causing the problems! 😉

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 4 months ago (15 children)

I know, it's just a meme, but... The article. It's about clocks during exams specifically, when students are under pressure and more likely to misread the time on an analogue clock.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for expounding upon that. It's shit like this that gets spread around and older gens pat themselves on the back while shaking their head at the younger gen for not knowing something, despite it being taken out of context or even straight up false.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (5 children)

To be honest, even if it were completely true... okay? If analogue clocks are on the way out then there's no particular need for anyone to be able to read them any more. I like them a lot visually and have a couple in my home, but there's nothing so special about them that people would be missing out by using digital clocks instead

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 4 months ago (8 children)

If only there was a building children could attend where they do things like teach how clocks work

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Sounds like divisive bullshit.

After all the millennial horseshit we had to hear in the 2010's and we're just gonna turn around and do the same shit, huh?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Yup, hating on the next generation is a tale as old as time. Idk why, but every generation seems to do it. Maybe it's being uncomfortable with them being different or afraid of their youthfulness. I don't get it.

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[–] akilou 73 points 4 months ago

Alternate title: Students cannot tell the time because schools are removing analog clocks from the classroom

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only reason you need to know analog clocks nowadays is to solve all the analog clock puzzles in video games.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The only reason you need to own analog clocks nowadays is to practice solving all the analog clock puzzles in video games.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Kids can't even read a sundial nowadays, smh

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (12 children)

My first thought was to be appalled at the lack of education on display.... But is there any real reason to keep analog clocks.. other than habit and nostalgia?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Other than the things already mentioned, you can read analog clocks easily from great distances, as long as the handles and the face have appropriate contrast (e.g. black on white). Even with impaired vision and large distance, being able to discern the rough position of black smudges on white background is enough to tell the time. This is not possible with a digital clock, because you can't distinguish between the digits as easily. Therefore, I'd certainly argue their much better for legibility in the back of a classroom or a lecture hall.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's probably someplace kids could go to learn about analog clocks...

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This has got to be rage bait like the litterbox thing right?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Feels more like we should teach kids better rather than remove the clocks.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No one knows how to read a sextant any more. The horror!!

Analog clocks are not really essential technology.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok but there are still many places with analog clocks, learning how they work shouldn't take more than 5 minutes.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I heard they’re gonna remove schools because kids show up to them not knowing anything.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I've worked in 2 different schools in the IT department and 4 others as a volunteer lecturer (I got a name tag that said Technology Evangelist) I found that putting an analog clock on the screen saver of computers in the classroom was more likely to result in the clock actually being on time.

Too many clocks in classrooms are very old or even battery powered but neglected.

I don't think kids are dumb just they aren't getting a world that is properly maintained by competent people that care about their work and are adequately resourced to do the whole job.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Always feels like these articles (and headlines in particular) are made to stir up division on social media.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I don't believe this for a second. You can literally just look at it and intuitively understand. Not to mention part of the standard elementary school curriculum is how to read a clock.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Shouldnt we blame the teachers for fsiling to teach kids how to read the clock?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (13 children)

Analog clocks are kind of annoying tbh. Sometimes you need that little extra energy you have to spend on wondering whether it is 11:37 or 11:38 already by carefully visually bisecting the circle section between 7 and 8.
Millimetres of white space keep you wondering about the nature of analogue vs digital, discrete vs continuous and measurement uncertainty while you have better things to do but cannot just give up on OCDing whether it is exactly 11:37:30 already or maybe it is 11:37:35? And boom in these seconds you were wondering it is already pointless because it is the past and now it is time to wonder if it is 11:38:15 or 11:38:30

Whereas for digital it is just:
oh it is 11:11 on 11.11.11, how cool, life’s good

Thus it is my opinion that analogue clocks are virgins whereas digital are chads

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

If only they still taught how to read a sundial, but those damn new fangled analog clocks...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a fake article

[–] openrain502r 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

bruh I can read analogue clocks and I'm gen z. it's probably rage bait though, so who cares :/

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Kids these days do absolutely still know how to read analog clocks.

Besides, they probably shouldn't put effort into that. Those things are close to useless nowadays. It's mostly a case of schools being conservative... but then, it's not that much of an effort, so there are more important things to care about.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Recommend we call Clockwise "cap" and Counterclockwise "no cap"

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So many edgelords in the comments shit talking younger generations for learning different things.
Y'all sound like old farts crying about how schools stopped using slide rules and how modern music just isn't as good.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I think keeping analog tech along side the digital equivalent is probably a good idea, just in case. Plus learning varied systems makes for more adaptable and smarter people.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wife, for years, thought the "second hand" on a clock was called that because it was the "2nd" hand on the clock...which confused her. Took her over 30 years to realize it's the "seconds" hand because it counts seconds.

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