The one that I find more amusing is that they have a hard time understanding time when it’s spoken using analog terms. If you say something like “half past one” “quarter of two” or “ten to three” you are very likely to create confusion with them since they grew up just reading the numbers on digital clocks.
Atheizm on
This is already known.
Opposite_Community11 on
They also can’t make change.
Vertigobee on
There’s a bunch of people here with a snarky tone implying this is not big deal – I bet you’d turn around and rail against Trump’s anti-intellectualism, too.
It’s doesn’t matter if clocks are outdated. Analog clocks are still around and it’s a basic spatial skill that people should know.
And yes, teachers already knew this before the ban.
bluezinharp on
Where’s the “No shit” button for this one?
I retired in June after teaching 8th grade civics for 20 years and I used to have to have my students complete third grade worksheets to try to teach them how to read an analog clock and fully one quarter of them still had no idea how to understand it.
unusual_flats on
People comparing being able to read a clock to some useless outdated skill is just so embarrassing.
It’s a fucking clock. You should be able to tell the time without a phone in the same way that you should be able to do basic arithmetic without a calculator.
heisenbergerwcheese on
You don’t have to say clocks… they can’t read anything
PatchyWhiskers on
My kid’s Brooklyn elementary school was pretty intense on teaching clock reading
Natural-Bus-174 on
No shit… finally someone noticed. Teachers have been saying it for more than 15years.
rotobot on
Can’t blame children for not knowing something. It’s a failure on their parents, school administration, and state curriculum (not blaming the teachers because they’re obligated to teach what’s set by the school district and state)
HMouse65 on
At least 75% of my (general education) middle schoolers can’t tell time using an analog clock. Fun fact: About 99% can’t read cursive.
Techno_Core on
I recognize that needing to read an analog clock is not really a necessary skill nowadays, but I put an analog clock on my son’s wall when he was little because I could see that if I didn’t make a deliberate attempt to teach it, he’d never learn it. As his parent, it’s ultimately my responsibility.
AvailableDirt9837 on
I think most of the commenters don’t have kids so they wouldn’t understand. My daughter is a top student, very bright kid. They covered analog clocks in elementary school, she passed all the sections. After that they never see an analog clock in real life again, or if they do, a digital one is right there and closer. I would be shocked if she remembers, I’ll ask her later and check though lol.
gorillafightsurvivor on
I’m friends with a few teachers and I’ve been hearing similar stories for a while now. Unable to read clocks, can’t do very basic mental math, illiteracy, you name it.
Sometimes it’s tragic, but sometimes I’m just baffled.
Octoplath_Traveler on
Buddy, anyone working a school in the past 7 years could’ve told you that
whatiftheyrewrong on
That’s been true for many years.
DMmepicsofyourdog on
Gen Z suffers from Shittok brain rot
NTC-Santa on
You dont say
HtownClassic on
It took me a long time to figure out clocks. And to figure out math… a long time. Eventually it worked out.
neuralsnafu on
Color me shocked /s
artistontheprairie on
I distinctly remember a unit in grade school in the 80s where I learned how to read a clock and make change. Priorities must have changed.
Westonhaus on
To be fair, the students are currently in a place that can… teach them?
gnarley_haterson on
Do parents not teach their kids basic skills anymore?
mythboy99 on
Breaking news study finds failure of the previous generation to raise the next leads to generations that can’t do things.
donjose22 on
Wait till they find out most high school kids don’t know how loans work but can borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars in the US.
big-papito on
They also don’t know what a “file” is.
storeshadow on
Thats not phones fault, 100% schools and teachers fault. The erosion of education has been planned for decades now.
21Shells on
I’m gonna be honest, I couldn’t read a clock well, until I was about 11. Even today it takes me a second to go “the hour hands point to… minute hand…” especially if i’m looking at it from a distance, or something small like a watch. Its something I have to consciously think about because I only see an analogue clock maybe a couple times a week, and quite a lot of the time they’re basically just decorative (like the ones on top of a Tescos) and don’t tell the time.
Digital clocks have just been straight up better for the past 50 years or so. Analogue clocks don’t have any inherent advantages that mean they need to stick around. Their design is a consequence of the mechanisms they operate on, rather than a result of user testing, studies etc.
Stop comparing it to learning how to count or being anti-intellectual. No one is citing any research papers as to why people need to learn how to read analogue clocks. I really wouldn’t give a shit if the next generation could only count in hexadecimal.
jayhawkeye2 on
Let’s place blame on parents not the freakin’ kids!
Houdinii1984 on
Did we teach them or did they just get a worksheet that time and call it a day?
We stopped widely teaching and using cursive and suddenly kids can’t use cursive. Analog clocks are the same. If no one uses them often (the adults) and the teachers aren’t engraining the knowledge in some manner, we’re just expecting kids to take it upon themselves to be interested in clocks?
It’s only common sense to those that were taught what clocks were and I don’t think we should just be assuming it’s being taught well universally across the states. It’s not a fault of the phone, but a fault of the adults that stopped teaching kids how to read time.
tokinaznjew on
I remember when math worksheets had analog clocks on them to teach us how to read a clock
Narrow-Fortune-7905 on
oh the webs we weave
Modernthought on
Analogue clocks are a physical representation of time. (15 min is 1/4 of an hour for example)
If these kids don’t have a concept of time, they don’t have a concept on reality.
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The one that I find more amusing is that they have a hard time understanding time when it’s spoken using analog terms. If you say something like “half past one” “quarter of two” or “ten to three” you are very likely to create confusion with them since they grew up just reading the numbers on digital clocks.
This is already known.
They also can’t make change.
There’s a bunch of people here with a snarky tone implying this is not big deal – I bet you’d turn around and rail against Trump’s anti-intellectualism, too.
It’s doesn’t matter if clocks are outdated. Analog clocks are still around and it’s a basic spatial skill that people should know.
And yes, teachers already knew this before the ban.
Where’s the “No shit” button for this one?
I retired in June after teaching 8th grade civics for 20 years and I used to have to have my students complete third grade worksheets to try to teach them how to read an analog clock and fully one quarter of them still had no idea how to understand it.
People comparing being able to read a clock to some useless outdated skill is just so embarrassing.
It’s a fucking clock. You should be able to tell the time without a phone in the same way that you should be able to do basic arithmetic without a calculator.
You don’t have to say clocks… they can’t read anything
My kid’s Brooklyn elementary school was pretty intense on teaching clock reading
No shit… finally someone noticed. Teachers have been saying it for more than 15years.
Can’t blame children for not knowing something. It’s a failure on their parents, school administration, and state curriculum (not blaming the teachers because they’re obligated to teach what’s set by the school district and state)
At least 75% of my (general education) middle schoolers can’t tell time using an analog clock. Fun fact: About 99% can’t read cursive.
I recognize that needing to read an analog clock is not really a necessary skill nowadays, but I put an analog clock on my son’s wall when he was little because I could see that if I didn’t make a deliberate attempt to teach it, he’d never learn it. As his parent, it’s ultimately my responsibility.
I think most of the commenters don’t have kids so they wouldn’t understand. My daughter is a top student, very bright kid. They covered analog clocks in elementary school, she passed all the sections. After that they never see an analog clock in real life again, or if they do, a digital one is right there and closer. I would be shocked if she remembers, I’ll ask her later and check though lol.
I’m friends with a few teachers and I’ve been hearing similar stories for a while now. Unable to read clocks, can’t do very basic mental math, illiteracy, you name it.
Sometimes it’s tragic, but sometimes I’m just baffled.
Buddy, anyone working a school in the past 7 years could’ve told you that
That’s been true for many years.
Gen Z suffers from Shittok brain rot
You dont say
It took me a long time to figure out clocks. And to figure out math… a long time. Eventually it worked out.
Color me shocked /s
I distinctly remember a unit in grade school in the 80s where I learned how to read a clock and make change. Priorities must have changed.
To be fair, the students are currently in a place that can… teach them?
Do parents not teach their kids basic skills anymore?
Breaking news study finds failure of the previous generation to raise the next leads to generations that can’t do things.
Wait till they find out most high school kids don’t know how loans work but can borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars in the US.
They also don’t know what a “file” is.
Thats not phones fault, 100% schools and teachers fault. The erosion of education has been planned for decades now.
I’m gonna be honest, I couldn’t read a clock well, until I was about 11. Even today it takes me a second to go “the hour hands point to… minute hand…” especially if i’m looking at it from a distance, or something small like a watch. Its something I have to consciously think about because I only see an analogue clock maybe a couple times a week, and quite a lot of the time they’re basically just decorative (like the ones on top of a Tescos) and don’t tell the time.
Digital clocks have just been straight up better for the past 50 years or so. Analogue clocks don’t have any inherent advantages that mean they need to stick around. Their design is a consequence of the mechanisms they operate on, rather than a result of user testing, studies etc.
Stop comparing it to learning how to count or being anti-intellectual. No one is citing any research papers as to why people need to learn how to read analogue clocks. I really wouldn’t give a shit if the next generation could only count in hexadecimal.
Let’s place blame on parents not the freakin’ kids!
Did we teach them or did they just get a worksheet that time and call it a day?
We stopped widely teaching and using cursive and suddenly kids can’t use cursive. Analog clocks are the same. If no one uses them often (the adults) and the teachers aren’t engraining the knowledge in some manner, we’re just expecting kids to take it upon themselves to be interested in clocks?
It’s only common sense to those that were taught what clocks were and I don’t think we should just be assuming it’s being taught well universally across the states. It’s not a fault of the phone, but a fault of the adults that stopped teaching kids how to read time.
I remember when math worksheets had analog clocks on them to teach us how to read a clock
oh the webs we weave
Analogue clocks are a physical representation of time. (15 min is 1/4 of an hour for example)
If these kids don’t have a concept of time, they don’t have a concept on reality.