It's Time.

[issatree]

Hi to you all,
This is not what you wood expect in an exam room at this time of the year.
Chap helping out in an examination room full of hopefuls. About to start the the exam, & hands shoot up all over the room.
Problem ???? most of the pupils cannot tell the time on an Analogue Clock, so they had to provide a Digital Clock, not only that, he had to write the time in quarter hours on the board, crossing off each quarter hour.
How could this be, are they just lazy or they just don't want to know.
What's with these so called Students, as I thought we were taught to tell the time in Grades 1 or 2.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but I wood have failed each one that were unable to tell the big hand & the little hand point to what time it was.
What say you, because I'm dumbfounded.

[Moti]

So what? How many analog clocks do you see around compared to digital clocks? Is the clock in the corner of your computer digital or analog? What's the advantage to being able to read an analog clock? (assuming they ALL couldn't read one - which I doubt)

Most exams I've sat in the past have had the quarter hours marked off - it's pretty standard.

It's not a good or a bad thing - times change.

[A Duke]

Hi,
Just a sign of the times.
What browns me off are digital clocks like my alarum clock that can not be set on 24 hour time, as that is the only advantage I can see in reading figures.
Regards
,

[rob streeper]

I had one during an exam ask me to show her how to use her calculator.

[artme]

I always taught my students both analogue and digital time telling skills.

A big advantage of analogue clocks is that you have a visual cue as to how much time is left, or conversely how much time has elapsed.

[Twisted Tenon]

My adult kids prefer the digital watches. They would be stuffed using a digital to find direction using the sun, but I guess they could guesstimate the dial if they could visualise it.

TT

[Bob38S]

My adult kids prefer the digital watches. They would be stuffed using a digital to find direction using the sun, but I guess they could guesstimate the dial if they could visualise it.

TT

They probably have some sort of compass app on their phone.

They appear to have almost everything else on them these days.

[Twisted Tenon]

They probably have some sort of compass app on their phone.

They appear to have almost everything else on them these days.

Of course, I totally forgot about that

TT

[rrich]

What you're talking about is not that unusual.

My son, now 43, didn't learn how to tell time on an analog clock until well into university. He had received some cash for his birthday and bought an analog watch. SWMBO remarked to me "How the eff is he gong to tell time with that watch?"

When teaching kids how to tell time, their biggest problem was with the before / after concept.

[RedShirtGuy]

You should try teaching university level students...in Teaching...who are in their last year...and can't spell worth a jot, nor apply basic primary school grammar and punctuation rules!!!! It really is incredible

Mah own kid dun gun be home skewld in that thar car'van...and thar aint gun be no time tellin' magic doohickey on ta wall neither

[Bob38S]

Yet the mind itself is a wonderful thing.

You should be able to read this - don't try to over think it just let your eyes and mind do the work.


I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

[Handyjack]

Yet the mind itself is a wonderful thing.

You should be able to read this - don't try to over think it just let your eyes and mind do the work.


I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

And I failed what was then HSC English.
Yet I can read and write the language, as well as communicate in English.
What is even more remarkable is that I have had articles published in magazines.
And I failed the language at school!

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

[derekcohen]

The ability to monitor time - as opposed to telling the time - is not only a critical component of organisational skills, but also for emotional self-regulation (i.e. frustration tolerance). To monitor the time requires a visual pattern, which is integral to analogue time. All digital does is tell you one moment in time.

20 years ago I gave talks to parents on ADHD. My standard joke (a serious one) was that I could tell them who had ADHD in 3 seconds - just by looking to see who wore a watch. Kids with ADHD tended not to wear a watch - they had no interest in time management. These days I cannot say this since few kids wear a watch - they carry around a mobile phone ... which is digital. Where would they learn about time management?

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Sturdee]

These days I cannot say this since few kids wear a watch - they carry around a mobile phone ... which is digital. Where would they learn about time management?

Regards from Perth

Derek

By putting an app for an analog clock on your phone of course.


Peter.

[Boringgeoff]

I had a similar problem transitioning from analogue to digital scales at the concrete batch plant.
When you're loading the hopper with raw materials using a front end loader you can watch your rate of climb of the needle with the analogue scales and anticipate when you have almost reached your target weight.
When the concrete plants were gradually computerised digital scales became the norm. No longer did the loader driver have the recipe written on a piece of paper in the cab with him, the computer put the ingredient up first then the target weight, eg 20mm aggregate size then 2400kg total weight. As you loaded it into the hopper the scale counted down until you reached zero, then after a short hesitation flashed up your next ingredient.
I always felt that I was a lot slower batching a load on the digital scales than the (good) old analogue scales.

Geoff.