Young Can 'only Read Digital Clocks'

[naomi24]

//That's the claim in a debate between teachers - with suggestions that digital clocks are being installed in exam halls for teenagers.
It follows a report in the Times Educational Supplement of a conference being told that pupils needed a digital clock to be able to tell the time.//

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43882847

These are GCSE and A-level students so not so very young. Fine, they’ll be able to tell the time in exam halls – but what about in the rest of the world? Rather than simply install clocks they can read, I wonder if anyone has ever considered an option that would be far more useful to them - teaching them to tell the time?

[-Talbot-]

Young can 'only read digital clocks'


Typical daily wai....oh wait.

Absolute botox.

[Jackdaw33]

Digital clocks did not exist when I was small. I was taught to read a clock face at a very young age.

[pixie374]

It is botox. We should be teaching adults not to make daft, sweeping statements.

[dannyk13]

Talbot, not all youngsters can read analogue clocks has been reported on several previous reports.Not botox.

[ummmm]

I taught my 3 to tell the time.

[pixie374]

The link actually only says they are more familiar with digital, which is true. I guess digital is better for their maths. Why not use both?

[dannyk13]

http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/25/teachers-say-children-cant-tell-time-on-analogue-clocks-any-more-7497307/

[-Talbot-]

danny, the headline is

Young Can 'only Read Digital Clocks'

not

some of the Young Can 'only Read Digital Clocks'


it is botox,

all my kids can read the time on a traditional clock.

[Islay]

Of the 10 children I see on a regular basis ages 2 to 14, 9 can tell the time on an analog face. The last one is only 2 and I’m sure will learn shortly.

[dannyk13]

// Telling time by looking at an old-fashioned analog clock. Surprisingly, though, 80 percent of kids these days cannot perform that very basic skill. At least, that's the conclusion of surveys conducted by the Discount Watch Store. When quizzed on their ability to tell time by looking at the clock's hands, only 20 percent of students ages 6 to 12 can nail it. This seems to hold true nation-wide//

[Jackdaw33]

My parents, for some reason, had all the clocks set to run 20 minutes fast. I would be told to, "Go and see what the time is on the clock". They would then mentally subtract 20 minutes. There used to be a thing called Sandringham time, invented by Edward VII, where the clocks were set 30 minutes fast. This was because Queen Alexandra was notoriously late for appointments.

[dannyk13]

Talbot, it should have been obvious that the article did not mean all youngsters.

[Islay]

My father and mother ran the house on the 24 hour clock!! I still use this the majority of the time!

[pixie374]

I don't know any children over 5 who can't read a standard clock. It's easier, anyway, as you can tell at a glance. If your exam finishes at 12 and it is now 10:37, that takes more thinking to how much time you have left. It's more about wide usage than inability.

[douglas9401]

It takes time and patience to teach the little horrors basic stuff like telling the time. Not every busy mum or dad has the time these days what with constant grooming, me time and general 'not my job mate' ness.

The time before 'let's meet for lattes' seemed more productive. Less stylish for sure but slightly better trained offspring.

[1ozzy]

I feel sorry for kids growing up in the UK if that's the case.

Oh the shame the shame.

[pixie374]

Danny, it says the opposite- "only" read digital clocks. We all know they are lying from the start.

[Cloverjo]

When I read that Joey Essex, the very dim young man from TOWIE, couldn't tell the time I wondered how on earth someone could be so thick. Now we're seeing that loads of teenagers can't do it. What on earth? Don't parents teach their kids these basic things? Like tieing their own shoelaces. Or do they need teachers to do that for them now as well?

[dannyk13]

Pixie, what is your proof that they are lying?

[naomi24]

//I don't know any children over 5 who can't read a standard clock.//

I know several.