Do kids know how to read an analog clock?

[khazlol]

Why wouldn't they? There are analog clocks everywhere.
Most watches are still analog, clock towers in cities are too, clocks at public transport stations etc.

And digital clocks have been around since the 1980's or something, right? Maybe even before that?

this, never met someone who can't read the time on any clock :P

[Attackrabbit]

Your niece and nephew aren't millennials.

I subscribe to the theory that they don't actually exist.

[Shiny212]

Even if some of them can't, it's not like they can't learn it, they just don't need it. Extraneous information stops being taught to the next generation all the time.

[Lochton]

Do millenials know how read a clock face? Do they even teach that now?

Yes, actual millenials should know that (because the 'millenial' term is a wide spread of ages). It is taught in most normal schools after all.

[shimerra]

That's a really stupid comparison actually. It's been shown that teaching young children with abacus really improves their math skills.

And yet the overwhelming majority of children, I'd argue over 99%, have no idea how to use it and do math just fine. And those who don't their failures certainly aren't tied or even remotely related to a lack of abacus. I somehow made it all the way up to calc II and graduate level statistics and the closest thing I ever got to was a children's toy I remember that vaguely resembled an abacus that was never used to do actual math.


You'd maybe have any kind of a point of the abacus was the singular or even an important part of teaching math. It's not. It hasn't been. And it probably wont ever be again. I'd love to see your study because I doubt even it claims that. Just like the analog clock isn't critical for telling time, or the candle isn't critical for lighting your home any more and any and all knowledge of the two aren't lynch pins to be a functioning adult since you could totally remove the analog clock and exact nothing except watch faces aka fashion would change.

There's positive gains to analog clocks with regards to math. Helps teach some basic multiplication and fractions. But take it away and people won't magically be unable to learn how to multiply by 5 or understand fractions like half and quarter.

Even if some of them can't, it's not like they can't learn it, they just don't need it. Extraneous information stops being taught to the next generation all the time.

Exactly. There's a reason why most of us have no knowledge of horses and how to take care of one. And yet magically it used to be the main mode of transportation beyond your own damn feet.

[Deleted]

Do millenials know how read a clock face? Do they even teach that now?

You're aware kids aren't milenials right?

[Scottyjscizzle]

Do millenials know how read a clock face? Do they even teach that now?

Millennial can be up to like 35 years old, hardly "kids". As a millennial yes I can read analog clocks.

[DaHomieG]

Even I was never taught how, I mean I'm not sure what the gap is to be considered a 'millenial'. I'm 23 but I learned how to use an analog clock on my own. As well with tying shoes. School never taught any of it.

This basically ^. they don't teach real life shit in schools anyway.

[Hilhen7]

Why are we asking if kids can use outdated technology?

May as well teach them how to use an abacus, or shoe a horse, or navigate by the position of the stars in the sky.


Kids only know what we teach them. If you want to spend time teaching them things that may not be necessary that's your business.

[Deleted]

Why are we asking if kids can use outdated technology?

May as well teach them how to use an abacus, or shoe a horse, or navigate by the position of the stars in the sky.


Kids only know what we teach them. If you want to spend time teaching them things that may not be necessary that's your business.

Outdated to whom?

[BuckSparkles]

Millennials are pretty fucking stupid, sooo......

As a Millennial, I can say our generation is trash.

Can't wait for the safe-space feeling generation starts having power in government.

Hopefully a meteor hits the planet before then.

[Shadee]

Who the hell doesn't know how to read a clock? You would have to be retarded to not know how.

[gushDH]

Well, at least half of the clocks I see on the streets have analog face, so I suppose it's still needed.

[Hilhen7]

Outdated to whom?

To anyone with a mobile device that displays the time..

I could ask people today if they can tell time by the position of the sun in the sky, but why bother if we have watches and phones. it's the same for analog clocks.

I could also ask if people nowadays know how to set a VCR, but why bother?

[Deleted]

To anyone with a mobile device that displays the time..

I could ask people today if they can tell time by the position of the sun in the sky, but why bother if we have watches and phones. it's the same for analog clocks.

I could also ask if people nowadays know how to set a VCR, but why bother?

Sounds more like laziness

[Katchii]

Yes, they still teach kids how to read clocks like this in school. At least they do in the district my kids go to.

[Hilhen7]

Sounds more like laziness

Maybe, but I tend to think of it as adapting to the current technology. I'm sure there is a ton of things that older generations know how to use that we don't, and we know things that they have not bothered to learn.

I mean how many times has an older person asked how to use a computer or even access / use a simple program?

[I Cannot Fap To That]

I meet adults that cannot read analog clocks. What is your point?

[Deleted]

Maybe, but I tend to think of it as adapting to the current technology. I'm sure there is a ton of things that older generations know how to use that we don't, and we know things that they have not bothered to learn.

But analog is still popular

[Hilhen7]

But analog is still popular

Yes for now, we are discussing the newer generation. And as others have stated most people can read an analog clock. But even if people can't in the future or even in someone can't do it currently, what is the big deal?

It just takes one generation for things to change, just like the switch from using VCRs.