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?

[elliemay1]

I would expect them to learn it at school. I always taught it in Year 3. (age 6/7)

[Spicerack]

Do you honestly think we need excuses, Jim? ;)

[jim360]

Well, I'm sure you've gotta distract yourselves from your utter ineptitude with modern tech somehow :)

[Islay]

Sorry Spath I forgot you were employed by the ed!!
I was responding to another person - is that not what AB is about?

[Spicerack]

True that. Bought a new(second hand) puter last week. I swear 'Mark' from Delhi jumped out of his office window.

[vulcan42]

Teachers should continue to teach children to tell the time with an analogue clock. The inability to tell the time this way is an indication of possible acalculia.

[naomi24]

Jim, //it's really just another excuse to belittle the younger generation.//

In your perpetual quest to seek offence you’re suffering yet another logic fail. If the younger generation aren’t taught, whose fault is it that they don’t learn? I’ll give you a clue. It isn’t theirs.

[jim360]

Not really seeking offence, I'm not really a part of the younger generation any more :)

[andres]

We have six analogue but only one digital clock. The digital being by the bedside because you can't hear it ticking. Having said that there is nothing nicer than sitting in front of the fire in a rocking chair listening to our Grandfather clock ticking away in the corner of the room.
I think children should be able to tell both analogue and digital. Although analogue clocks have withstood the tests of time I don't think digital clocks and watches will hold the same fascination in 100 years .

[jim360]

On a more serious note, please stop mistaking my disagreement with you as taking offence. The two are very, very different.

[Bertrum]

Not sure this will help much

[naomi24]

Jim, I know you're not part of the younger generation any more but that doesn't negate your logic failure here.

[jim360]

Regardless of what you may have meant, I don't buy it. Like I say, I've heard plenty of rants like this, and they are never directed at anyone other than the children. Maybe they should be, but they aren't. So no, I'm not convinced that I'm suffering "yet another" logic fail. And I'd be impressed if you could objectively justify the use of "yet another".

[woofgang]

vulcan, I think you might mean dyscalculia and its not the only symptom or even the clearest one.

[woofgang]

https://thepowerofdyslexia.com/dyscalculia/

[jambutty]

'Analogue clocks are becoming rarer and rarer' That's news to me!!

[naomi24]

Jim, ..Regardless of what you may have meant, I don't buy it. Like I say, I've heard plenty of rants like this, and they are never directed at anyone other than the children//

That’s nonsense. How is //If the younger generation aren’t taught, whose fault is it that they don’t learn? I’ll give you a clue. It isn’t theirs.// a ‘rant’; - and moreover how is it directed at the children?

//And I'd be impressed if you could objectively justify the use of "yet another".//

I don’t keep records of your deliberations and I’ve no interest in impressing you.

[Mamyalynne]

Or the odd bag of compost.

Get youngsters to make simple clocks, they love it - you can make both.

Lots of kits about.