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Brit Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers 'cannot tell the time'
| “They are used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone, on their computer. Nearly everything they’ve got is digital so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere.”
“You don’t want them to put their hand up to ask how much time is left,” he said.
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“Schools will inevitably be doing their best to make young children feel as relaxed as the can be. There is actually a big advantage in using digital clocks in exam rooms because it is much less easy to mistake a time on a digital clock when you are working against time.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/04/24/schools-removing-analogue-clocks-exam-halls-teenagers-unable/
| I am 21 years old and still can't tell time using analogue clock...
| Aren't you supposed to learn this when you're like 8
| I think you are xD
| Why the heck should the schools adapt to laziness and idiocy of pupils instead of pupils learning something as basic and trivial as reading the clock?
But this must be fake news. I don't believe such entire new level of stupidity exists.
| to be fair today the youth sees electronic clicks everywhere so I can understand why they don't learn it.
| About damn time, analogue clocks are harder to read than a sun dial. Who decided the bigger hand should measure the smaller units of time?
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| Analog clocks are kind of obsolete now anyways.
| Finally
| i'd hate to be this fuckin dumb
| I don't think the kids are dumb tbh. Teenagers have been dumb since the dawn of mankind. Things get outdated over time (heh), and analogue clocks are shaping up to be one of those things
| So say, for a clock/watch now it is unthinkable fo be without a cpu, a touchscreen and a battery, all of these producing toxic elements in manufacture process?
But this is less to the point about the inability to read analog clocks. I hope teenagers of today don't think 'keyboard' when they hear 'writing'. Handwriting is so obsolete. Who needs that when we have computers and printers? Why one must know the multiplication table by heart? These are all so obsolete.
A dumb generation.
| >tfw americans still can't into microwave time
| >tfw when a sofisticated cyberpunk aficionado of London can't tell the time by looking at Big Ben.
| >>258662
"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of
today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for
parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as
if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is
foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest
and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress." -Peter the Hermit, 1274 A.D.
| As someone who sat for GCSEs and A/Ls, analogue clocks are a real help when it comes to managing time, especially cause these test usually come in separate sections. For example, if I'm sitting a 2 hour test and the section I'm doing should take no more than 15 mins, it's always easier to manage your time with an analogue clock, if that makes sense. I had to do a test with a digital clock once and I was fucked when it came to managing time.
| the younger generation has been criticized since the fucking greek ages, mate. if they were getting dumber we'd all be cavemen by now.
>So say, for a clock/watch now it is unthinkable fo be without a cpu, a touchscreen and a battery, all of these producing toxic elements in manufacture process?
how are you accessing dangeru
| It's not a matter of being able or not being able to read a digital clock or analogue clock. It's just an analogue clock is a better representation of time. I dunno, that's just me.
| >>258732
Am accessing danger/u not through a digital clock that is for sure.
Does the strawman syndrome come natural to you or have you attended intensive topic change courses for the fallacy inclined?
| We learn that stuff in kindergarten. Are brits really that retarded?
| The only time I can't read an analog clock is when I'm sitting at a fucked up angle >_>
| the thing is I have dyscalculia so counting minutes takes me a long time, that's why I prefer digital... pls no bulli
| Isn't this an onion article?
| I feel like this was taken entirely out of context and what the students actually meant was "We can't see the goddamn hands from across the hall."
Might just be me being optimistic, though.
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Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.
Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said youngsters have become accustomed to using digital devices.
“The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations,” he told The Telegraph.