cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41056130
At least 31 states and the District of Columbia restrict cell phones in schools
New York City teachers say the state’s recently implemented cell phone ban in schools has showed that numerous students no longer know how to tell time on an old-fashioned clock.
“That’s a major skill that they’re not used to at all,” Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, told Gothamist of what she’s noticed after the ban, which went into effect in September.
Students in the city’s school system are meant to learn basic time-telling skills in the first and second grade, according to officials, though it appears children have fallen out of practice doing so in an increasingly digital world.
I remember when I was in 5th grade, back in the early '80s, a kid didn’t know how to tell time on a clock. The adults then blamed the popularity of digital wristwatches. On one hand it doesn’t really matter, on the other it’s a great introduction to visualizing alternate numbering systems.
We are the same age and I had my first analog wristwatch in 1st grade. When my niece was 4 in '86 or so I taught her to read a clock. Weird world, guess it’s not all about age.
I was in 5th grade back in 00’s and if you don"t knoe how to tell time on a clock, you get made fun of. It offers a different, a more intuitive, perception of progressing time. It’s more like a progress bar than just counting numbers
Same shit, different Gen. The sundialists hated mechanical clocks, too.