And if it were like this in every school: Would students be “stupid” because of it?
Apparently analogue clocks are now being completely abolished in schools
At least at first glance, this is what an article about the inability of students to read analog clocks gives.
However, the article is from 2018, it was discussed and partially implemented in schools in Great Britain.
An article on the site “ apost ” states in a dateless article that children find it difficult to read analogue clocks, which is why schools are considering abolishing them and replacing them with digital clocks.
The article first takes a nostalgic look at the past, when people learned the alphabet at school, drew cartoon characters and learned how to read the clock correctly, whereas today's children face completely different challenges, namely to learn how to use computers and smartphones.
Later, there are reports, also correctly, of teachers in Great Britain who are replacing analogue clocks in their classrooms with digital clocks, because otherwise, they fear, students would spend too much time puzzling over what time it is during class tests.
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Great Britain 2018
The article on the “apost” site is not a fake, but two points ensure that inquiries about it end up with us:
The headline only reports on schools but does not mention a location, and the article has no date, so it always appears current.
However, the article itself correctly states that this is not a general idea for schools, but that several teachers from various schools in Great Britain reported in 2018 that their students, especially under the time pressure of class work, had difficulties that were more difficult for them to be able to read an unfamiliar analogue clock and therefore these were replaced.
And what's so bad about that?
It's amazing to see that in some discussions, for example, you can read clock illiterate people stare”.
OK Boomer . Children and young people also cannot do other old things: operate a rotary telephone, recognize the connection between a music cassette and a pencil, operate a record player or a video recorder.
The older generation often has difficulty using a computer mouse or swiping on a smartphone, let alone using Google search correctly. Welcome to the digital age!
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Conclusion
Analogue clocks are not generally being purchased in schools, but rather there was discussion about it in Great Britain in 2018 because some schools were implementing this.
This is by no means a sign of non-education, but simply the logical consequence in the digital age. Analogue clocks were used to display time for a long time, but are no longer very common in everyday life. It may not be a mistake to teach students to read analog clocks, but the slow extinction of this “art” is foreseeable.
Article image: Shutterstock / Vereshchagin Dmitry / szefei
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