Kids Can't Tell Time

[HarryMonkey]

Apparently kids can't tell the time now with a standard clock so schools are looking to replace them with digital ones as the poor little lambs get all stressed in their exams. :censored: .

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/04/24/schools-removing-analogue-clocks-exam-halls-teenagers-unable/

 

 

Here's a radical idea ... teach them how to tell the time !!!

[3s-gtech]

That's for the primaries to do. Unfortunately, they're so busy doing absolute basics such as getting them to stop soiling themselves in nursery that they miss much of the foundation work there, then they spend the rest of their time over the next years being prepared for constant literacy and numeracy testing. We've long been having kids that can't use a computer, who can't point to the UK on a map, and have never written with a pen, coming to us. Telling the time may just be another thing we have to either make allowances for or find time in secondary SoW to do!

[HarryMonkey]

Here's another radical idea ... Parents , teach your kids to tell the time properly. Parents expect schools to do far too much for them these days. Jeez, when I started school I could already read, write and tell the time.

[LeMarchand]

Schools will inevitably be doing their best to make young children feel as relaxed as the can be.

 

What next? Pre-exam massages?

[David44]

I think this is a lot of fuss over nothing. Of course it's going to be easier to have a digital clock that says 1:21 to tell you that you have 1 hour and 21 minutes left rather than an analogue clock showing 32 minutes past 2, knowing that the exam started at 3 minutes past 2 and finishes at 22 minutes past 3 and working it out from there. In an exam, you just want to glance up and see how much time you have left, whatever your age. You don't particularly want to know what the time is, you just want to know the amount of time left for the exam.

[unixman_again]

Here's another radical idea ... Parents , teach your kids to tell the time properly. Parents expect schools to do far too much for them these days. Jeez, when I started school I could already read, write and tell the time.

I could tie my shoes too - my ex girlfriend (50 something) couldn't and thought velco trainers a great idea.

[LeMarchand]

I think this is a lot of fuss over nothing. Of course it's going to be easier to have a digital clock that says 1:21 to tell you that you have 1 hour and 21 minutes left rather than an analogue clock showing 32 minutes past 2, knowing that the exam started at 3 minutes past 2 and finishes at 22 minutes past 3 and working it out from there. In an exam, you just want to glance up and see how much time you have left, whatever your age. You don't particularly want to know what the time is, you just want to know the amount of time left for the exam.

 

I got the impression that the clocks were just "current time" rather than "countdown clocks" (which I would concede would make sense).

[Mewdewgooboofoo]

i can remember being taught how to read a clock in year 4. thinking about it i thought think that's a bit late( this was 12 years ago)

my mum taught me how to read 12 hour clocks before i started school i think

 

But still to this day i struggle with reading a 24 hour clock takes me a good 10 seconds when i look at a clock it being 17:23 i have to in my head -12 from 17 to realize its 5:23. don't know why i have just never been able to remember it.

 

don't know if its something to do with my dyslexia or what. but every digital clock i have access to is set to only show 12 hour

[HarryMonkey]

I could tie my shoes too.

 

Me too.

[sted]

its not just kids i use analogue clocks so infrequently it takes me far longer than it should to work out the time im so used to digital clocks. Even my analogue watch has a digital time on it as well so i tend to read that even though its smaller and harder to read its easier to process for me

[hardtailstar]

Being a dyslexic it took me years to be able to read an analogue clock properly.

 

Now I struggle with it sometimes but using a digital 24 hour clock has been much easier to read.

[unixman_again]

I have a Bradley watch which people struggle with - it's an analogue watch with no hands. It's one of the original ones too, which were crowd sourced. Useful when you want to tell teh time without looking, although I'm not very good at that. Edited April 25, 2018 by unixman_again

[bossman]

I could tie my shoelaces....read and write....cook and clean.....wash my clothes....

 

 

and........wipe my own ars*.....

 

I had to.... as my parents showed me how and then beat the crap out of me if I didn't do these things......

 

We have become such a nanny state and because some parents are getting so damn lazy nowadays they cannot or will not teach their children the basics......as they themselves cannot even cook a meal...its off to McDonalds or take-aways from the "Just Eat" apps....or a packet of crisps with chocolate bars to finish off with....

 

I despair sometimes but then its gone too far now to turn it around I feel....

[LeMarchand]

I have a Bradley watch which people struggle with - it's an analogue watch with no hands. It's one of the original ones too, which were crowd sourced. Useful when you want to tell teh time without looking, although I'm not very good at that.

 

I own one of these that I struggle with; have to put on the reading glasses to work out the time (so rarely wear it).

 

 

Normally have an analogue on my wrist and, if I'm wearing a waistcoat, a pocket watch on a chain.

 

Also have one of these but it's too huge to actually wear.

 

[bossman]

Quite proud of my analogue timepiece.....

 

Always draws attention wherever I go.....

 

[LeMarchand]

Quite proud of my analogue timepiece.....

 

Always draws attention wherever I go.....

 

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Is that a watch in your pocket?

[Rob_D]

I can quite easily immagine a house with no analogue clocks. Most household gadgets have a digital time readout these days. If they're not around then there's no imperative to learn how to use them.

 

We're moving toward using digital clocks in our exams. Although still clocks rather than countdown timers, which seems like a great idea until you try to work out how to handle extra time. Maybe count-up timers?

[Katy]

Don't think I bothered looking at the clock in exams, besides A level computing when I was finishing 90 minute papers in 20 minutes, "How long left to sit here in silence doing nothing? 70 minutes..."

Always used to just rely on the teachers going "15 minutes left" etc.

[Mistert89]

You’ve all missed the point....

Shouldn’t all kids have a Mickey/Minnie mouse clock? Used to be standard issue....

[stevejp]

That's for the primaries to do. Unfortunately, they're so busy doing absolute basics such as getting them to stop soiling themselves in nursery that they miss much of the foundation work there, then they spend the rest of their time over the next years being prepared for constant literacy and numeracy testing. We've long been having kids that can't use a computer, who can't point to the UK on a map, and have never written with a pen, coming to us. Telling the time may just be another thing we have to either make allowances for or find time in secondary SoW to do!

 

Sorry, but don't believe that this is true. I've taught primary for 32 years, and have never taught in a school where telling the time wasn't a major part of the maths curriculum around Y2/3/4.

Suspect that this particular issue may have more to do with the little darlings finding one more excuse why they shouldn't be parted from their beloved mobiles for a couple of hours...

[3s-gtech]

Absolutely it's part of the curriculum - but are they getting the chance to actually learn it, or is it whipped through? Not the fault of the teachers, but of the pressures put on them to deliver so much.

[unixman_again]

I can quite easily immagine a house with no analogue clocks. Most household gadgets have a digital time readout these days.

I'm not sure that is the case. A few months ago I purchased a DVD recorder and last week a PVR and neither has a digital display. The PVR doesn't display anything except a red light which goes blue when it's on.

[witch]

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I had to.... as my parents showed me how and then beat the crap out of me if I didn't do these things.......

 

I am sure you are not advocating that parents use this method to teach their children!

[Oaktech]

I struggle to tell the time on an analogue clock and I'm nearly 40...

 

 

It's just one of my foibles. Along with an inability to do mental arithmetic.

[sparkeh]

1) Sounds like bunkem to me. Reading clocks is still part of the primary curriculum and all our school clocks are analogue and the kids seem to cope.

 

2) Why the ire? I fail to understand why reading that teenagers struggle with clocks prompts people to run to a keyboard to bash out and expletive strewn, doom laded post about how the world is going to Hell in a handcart and we'll soon be fighting each other for resources in a Max Max style post Apocalypse dystopia. I mean, its just clocks