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Post by mailartist on May 9, 2018 10:35:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 10:30:31 GMT
I cannot decide if it's sad or scary that kids cannot tell the time on a normal clock If this article is true then what on earth are teachers actually being paid to teach these days? I remember my teacher in First School having a big clock and teaching us how to tell the time. I know a lot of kids seem to have really bad handwriting now (going on some of the examples I see our paper delivery lads & lasses doing when they write the address on the top of the newspaper) as they must be doing everything on a computer.....whatever happened to teaching them the basics of writing? I don't know......just so glad I'm not going to school nowadays Yeah, it's good to know how to use technology and gadgets but we shouldn't be relying 100% on them.
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Post by Mia on May 10, 2018 12:49:57 GMT
A similar article was in the Daily Mail.
I asked my son as he is doing exams - the exam hall has a normal clock. He thinks it is easier to read the time on a clock with hands.
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Post by radellaf on May 11, 2018 1:39:31 GMT
He thinks it is easier to read the time on a clock with hands. I don't find it easier to tell the absolute time, but I do think analog dials make time intervals easier to track.
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Post by MKB on May 11, 2018 3:35:50 GMT
The writing is worse too. Last week I spoke with a teacher friend. He recently looked back at papers from only 10 years ago, and it was obvious there was a difference.
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Post by mailartist on May 11, 2018 12:54:25 GMT
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Post by mailartist on May 11, 2018 12:55:57 GMT
The writing is worse too. Last week I spoke with a teacher friend. He recently looked back at papers from only 10 years ago, and it was obvious there was a difference. By "worse . . . difference," did the teacher friend mean poor penmanship, or paucity of thought?
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Post by mailartist on May 11, 2018 13:08:50 GMT
He thinks it is easier to read the time on a clock with hands. I don't find it easier to tell the absolute time, but I do think analog dials make time intervals easier to track. I hadn't thought about this before, but there is a 2-d geometrical "overlay" to analog clocks (i.e., the ever-changing spread between the hands -- wide or narrow -- pointing different directions on the clock face -- up and over, down and around), that digital clocks, with their 1-d readout ("Number, number, number" and "Number, number, next number") can't capture. [Aside: About the only plus I can see for digital is that they are back-lit or illuminated, which makes them easier to see in the middle of the night. Clock, plus nightlight.] On that basis, it seems that reading analog clocks should be easier (and more fun), since it's more pictorial (as in, "time, illustrated" or "time, depicted in sculpture that moves, and often ticks"). But people have to be taught what the "picture" means. With all the talk about the importance of language-immersion for students, why not have dual-feature clocks, that show both analog and digital? If nothing else, give them something to study and compare one to the other (and perhaps teach themselves what the hands mean) when the history lecture drones long.
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Post by MKB on May 11, 2018 14:25:58 GMT
The writing is worse too. Last week I spoke with a teacher friend. He recently looked back at papers from only 10 years ago, and it was obvious there was a difference. By "worse . . . difference," did the teacher friend mean poor penmanship, or paucity of thought? Sorry, he was talking about the quality of what they had to say.
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Post by mailartist on May 11, 2018 17:37:35 GMT
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Post by rosesnbrambles on May 11, 2018 22:30:23 GMT
My youngest has dyslexia so analog clocks really stress her out. When she's reading a book the letters on the page move around sometimes or one line might appear large and bent up while the line above it is tiny and sweeps down so that they overlap. She has a hard time explaining what she sees but she also has dysgraphia and her handwriting gives me clues. Her handwriting sweeps up and down and the size of letters changes. If she's tired, stressed or in a hurry it's way worse. She has figured out her own coping strategies and those work for books and things that are nearby but most analog clocks are hung on walls at a distance. I gave her a watch for Christmas in 2016 because she was struggling so much with the analog clock on the wall in the "nest" at school and felt stressed out about getting to class on time. She attends an early college high school where she takes college courses and high school classes so that she can earn a 2 year associates degree at the same time she completes high school requirements. No other student in the school has her exact schedule. She also has a tendency to let her cellphone die or to leave it at home. She understands the details of the analog clock and would probably be okay with an analog watch but digital is less stressful (although she has read a 3 as a 5 and shown up for class 20 minutes early before).
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Post by mailartist on May 12, 2018 12:45:38 GMT
Thank you for sharing, rosesnbrambles. It's easy to forget the challenges (handicaps?) that others can have with easy things we take for granted, and your story here was a great reminder.
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Post by radellaf on May 12, 2018 16:13:36 GMT
Which reminds me, if the kids have so much trouble with the clocks in the exam hall, watches aren't hard to come by, even if they are less popular.
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Post by rosesnbrambles on May 12, 2018 19:11:04 GMT
Thank you for sharing, rosesnbrambles. It's easy to forget the challenges (handicaps?) that others can have with easy things we take for granted, and your story here was a great reminder. She was diagnosed 7 years ago and there are still times when I'm surprised by something she struggles with. Of course some days are better than others. Once in a while she'll come home from school and say "Today was a bad dyslexia day." Clocks aren't as bad as word searches. When she was younger, teachers gave out word search worksheets as review for spelling words, etc. Those things were torture...it's really hard to find words in "boiling alphabet soup."
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