• marcos@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Kids these days do absolutely still know how to read analog clocks.

    Besides, they probably shouldn’t put effort into that. Those things are close to useless nowadays. It’s mostly a case of schools being conservative… but then, it’s not that much of an effort, so there are more important things to care about.

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      3 months ago

      Not sure about that. For high school math it is still quite important that students are familiar with circles and angles on circles. Analogue clocks are a gentle introduction to this.

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      3 months ago

      I do know how to read an analog clock, but I dont read it subconciously, because my brain works on digital time, so I will have to look at it and then figure out what that time is if it were on a digital clock.

      So if I see an analog clock I would rather look at my phone because that is just quicker than doing the conversion.

      If you want to know more, look at the video Technology Connections (2?) did about it.