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This framing aggravates me. Of course they /can/ read clocks. You just haven't _taught_ them how to do it yet, and up until now, they've had no reason to do
by themafia 10mo ago
This framing aggravates me.
Of course they /can/ read clocks. You just haven't _taught_ them how to do it yet, and up until now, they've had no reason to do it.
It's divisive and weird.
- sieabahlpark 10mo ago[dead]
- ekjhgkejhgk 10mo agoBullshit. Information is everywhere, if they WANTED to learn how to read them they could go on wikipedia or youtube. That excuse could've worked when I was a teenager, where to learn something you have to either learn it from a person or from a book, but not nowadays.
- jackvalentine 10mo agoChildren need instruction, they’re not born with an inbuilt list of things they should probably learn and the desire to go and learn them without guidance.
- ekjhgkejhgk 10mo agoIf we were talking about 6 year olds I wouldn't made this comment. Plenty of teenagers are curious about the world around them. The ones that can't read a clock, aren't. By the time people get to their teens there's already a huge huge range of interests and yes, IQ too.
- jackvalentine 10mo agoRelying on ‘plenty of children are curious enough to be motivated to go figure it out’ as a teaching strategy is pretty wild.
- ekjhgkejhgk 10mo agoTeenagers.
- jackvalentine 10mo agoThey’re still children and regardless of your definition, my statement still applies.
- ekjhgkejhgk 10mo agoNot necessarily. You're trying to play with words to make it sound like what I'm saying is crazy, but you're doing it incorrectly. Not all teenagers are children, no.
- amitav1 10mo agoIs learning how to read an analogue clock really an effective use of one's time? I myself was taught how an am able to read an analogue clock, but I doubt that I would be much worse off without that abulity.
- ekjhgkejhgk 10mo agoWhy learn anything, just ask chatgpt gang, amirite.
- amitav1 10mo agoDo you know how to use a fountain pen? Do you know how to tell your position by the stars? Do you know how to start a fire with sticks and stones? Life's too short to spend it hoarding trivia.
- ekjhgkejhgk 10mo agoRight, just ask chatgpt gang amirite yolo
- lucyjojo 10mo agowell... unironically yeah...
- Nextgrid 10mo agoFor knowledge you only use occasionally and always in a context where reference (conventional or AI) is available, why not? That frees up memory/resources to learn more important stuff, the stuff where consulting reference might be too slow or not available.
- amitav1 10mo agoNo pun intended
- senordevnyc 10mo agoOK, so they don't want to. So what?
- twelvedogs 10mo agoI've worked in schools, we only have analogue clocks, phones are banned and I'm still constantly asked the time as they don't want to read them. Teaching them to do it is tough because it's incredibly uninteresting to them and someone will have a watch or something
- spankibalt 10mo agoWe got taught in first and second grade, reading maps and navigating by them included. Was neccessity for Schnitzeljagd and other scavenger hunt-type games. But, to be fair, most kids already knew how to read timepieces.
- tzs 10mo agoAccording to the article they have been taught how to do it, in the first and second grades (ages 6-7 in US schools). They just haven't used that skill for a long time and have lost that skill.