More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/educati...-analogue-clocks-exam-halls-teenagers-unable/
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Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers 'cannot tell the time'
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So what do we call the generation after millennials? Can we start a trend where we accuse them of killing stuff and put "telling the time" as their first offense?
I'm all for making exams more comfortable, but if you're doing your GCSE and A-Level exams and are still having trouble working out the time on an analogue clock, I'd be a little worried.
I'm In my third year of university and find this shocking. Never heard complaints (and it was only a couple of years ago). University uses analog.. It doesn't seem like a big deal to use one or the other but the reason here is what is amazing.
Seriously embarrassing.
Seriously embarrassing.
Guys
You realize there are people that reacted like you are when sundials were phased out, right?
Do ya'll really wanna be known as the sundial generation
I sure as hell dont know how to use a sundial and
You realize there are people that reacted like you are when sundials were phased out, right?
Do ya'll really wanna be known as the sundial generation
I sure as hell dont know how to use a sundial and
KInd of sad but oh well.
As long as people can tell digital time what is the problem?
How could you possibly be angry with people telling time in a different way to you.
As long as people can tell digital time what is the problem?
How could you possibly be angry with people telling time in a different way to you.
I mean if there aren't numeric markers on the things I can maybe get it. Same way not a lot of people could read a sundial I'd assume.
But yeah that's uh.
That's disconcerting.
But yeah that's uh.
That's disconcerting.
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Makes sense, we aren't living in an analogue age anymore. I think that headmaster has the right attitude towards this, in a world as digital as ours do kids even really need to be able to read an analogue clock anymore?
Seems to me like kids not being able to read a clock is the perfect reason to leave them up.
When we had the thread about how kids can't write anymore, half the replies were people who thought holding a fucking pen was a useless skill so good riddance. Which way will this go?
When we had the thread about how kids can't write anymore, half the replies were people who thought holding a fucking pen was a useless skill so good riddance. Which way will this go?
Like, they are doing the absolute opposite instead of what they should do.
Leave them there.
Funny and fucking sad.
Leave them there.
Funny and fucking sad.
I mean, if we reach a future where we can dictate language onto a paper with our mind
Are you really gonna weep for the death of penmanship
And ya'll better have sundials or else Im gonna start questioning your intelligence on lacking usage of sundials
The issue isn't with people telling time in a different way, but being unable to tell it in a very basic way that used to be common knowledge for kids. Sure you can argue it like people do with cursive, "it's a thing of the past, let's forget it", but for many people being unable to read "analog" time or write by hand is a sign of a lacking education.
sundials are rare nowadays, but most people should be able to read them. It's not exactly rocket science.
Fine by me, the only reason I use an analogue clock in the real world is to have a nice looking watch.
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Smartphones and iPads are now old enough that pupils have used it for most of their life
I know this is meant to be joke, but if anyone knows someone who paints such clock they should see doctor.Did my best:
How dare people dont have sundials posted everywhere and dont know how to use them
Shame on you all! I bet you dont even know how to use a sundial when its cloudy. Kids these days.
The "Back to the Future" remaster will be something to behold. :P
This was done in the 90s at my school. Get with the times. Reading analogue clicks is a relic of the past that serves no practical purpose. It is as worthless as cursive.
Did you perhaps glance at the domain of the URL for the article? Or even skim the blurb quoted in the OP?
Seriously if someone told me he can't read a sundial, I'd call him intellectually challenged. There's one shadow and one line for each hour, how hard can it be ?
And yeah I learnt to build a sundial in primary school, even if they had been out of fashion for centuries.
Live in the UK. Literally never heard of cursive before googling after this post. Does that mean I'm 'lacking education'?
Its not that they don't know how to tell time, schools and parents are too fucking lazy to teach them how an analogue clock works.
Don't blame this on kids, blame it on lazy people who can't take the 10 minutes it takes to tell them how it works
Don't blame this on kids, blame it on lazy people who can't take the 10 minutes it takes to tell them how it works
It's not a failing, analogue clocks are pointless these days.
And fuck cursive most useless skill that tortured me growing up as a lefty.
Sorry... but I will question someone intelligence if when they look at a sundial they don't grasp how to use it.