Clocks in classrooms have been on walls for as long as I can remember. They’re part of the décor, after all. I remember learning how to read time too. Filling out sheets that have different clock faces to fill in, or empty spaces to enter in the time. It’s all a part of basic learning that starts at a young age. A critical skill required to live life! Or is it?
As of 2018, apparently learning how to read an analog clock isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in the UK. They don’t need it anymore. According to The Telegraph UK; “Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.”
Considering all our devices have digital clocks, does it really come as a surprise? Like any skill, you must use it daily to make the most of it, otherwise, it becomes rusty, and fades. Especially for the much younger generation, the exposure to analog clocks simply just doesn’t exist like it once did.
Rather than kids putting up their hands to ask, “What time is it?” replacing clocks will be more straightforward and far simpler to deal with. Especially during exam time when students need to know how much time is left. The disconnect is even spilling over into speech – kids aren’t picking up on what “quarter past” or “half to” means. And as we go further and further down the rabbit hole, these terms might even become obsolete. It’s a sign of the times.
Click below to watch this revealing exposé about the trend that’s sure to be hitting this side of the pond in the very near future.
