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Young Can 'only Read Digital Clocks'
//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.//
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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?
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.//
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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?
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"given the scenario you describe above, said someone arrives at Liverpool Lime Street station (or any one of many others) to catch a train leaving at 11h09. here's a picture of the clock on the concourse:-
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without access to a digital clock (as you describe) how would "someone" know how long until their train leaves?"
They would know because 11h09 is 11:09am (its pm counterpart being 23h09). They should thus have arrived at the station expecting their train to leave at 11:09am.
When they looked up at the clock it would be either be daylight or dark. In Liverpool it is dark by 10:55pm whatever the time of year. As well as that they would probably have been awake for a little less time than had it been 10:55pm. They would therefore know whether they had fourteen minutes to wait or whether they needed to find a bed for the night. Anybody not knowing whether it is eleven in the morning or eleven at night should not really be out on their own.
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without access to a digital clock (as you describe) how would "someone" know how long until their train leaves?"
They would know because 11h09 is 11:09am (its pm counterpart being 23h09). They should thus have arrived at the station expecting their train to leave at 11:09am.
When they looked up at the clock it would be either be daylight or dark. In Liverpool it is dark by 10:55pm whatever the time of year. As well as that they would probably have been awake for a little less time than had it been 10:55pm. They would therefore know whether they had fourteen minutes to wait or whether they needed to find a bed for the night. Anybody not knowing whether it is eleven in the morning or eleven at night should not really be out on their own.
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I seriously only know a couple of people who can't tell the time on a analogue clock ( of any age),who can't under stand the 24 hour clock and who don't know that 5.40 is twenty to six. If people don't know that it's because they haven't been taught that, and should have been, because none of it is difficult, however apart form a couple of people whose knowledge in other area seems similarly lacking, I have not encountered this in young or old people.
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