very few continue to use an abacus. analog clocks will still be around for decades
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DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
One part of me wants to feel disappointed that kids aren’t learning to read analog clocks, but another part of me thinks there was a time when people grew disappointed that the younger generations stopped learning to use an abacus in favor of digital calculators. I certainly don’t want some old geezer giving me shit because I don’t want to learn to use an abacus. I also don’t want to be that old geezer.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 14 hours ago
No doubt. I wasn’t trying to imply that either one is useless, but things change and new technology takes over. Another person replied to me comparing cursive and typing on a computer. I catch myself thinking that new generations are at a disadvantage because they don’t learn the same things I did. But it may not always be necessary that they do. I am of the computer typing generation. I didn’t learn to write beautiful cursive, but my life hasn’t been negatively impacted even though many people have expressed sympathy for my awful education. I was just trying to say I think it’s a rather normal thing for old systems to get phased out of a classroom from time to time. It’s not really a good reason to believe that younger generations are doomed. But like I said I fall into that line of thinking myself from time to time.
juliebean@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
*sigh* everyone always forgets about slide rules.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Beat me to it. If only my dad had saves his
nickiwest@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Teacher here.
I’m pretty certain that the only place where my students ever encounter an analog clock is at school. But teaching how to read analog clocks is required in our math education standards, so I have one and I use it, even though I think there are other, more relevant places to put our academic focus.
I’m 45 years old. I’m pretty sure we only ever had one analog clock in our house when I was growing up in the '80s, and that was my grandpa’s alarm clock. The only places I’ve been where only analog clocks were available have been schools. Even our local bank in my small town changed to a digital clock on its sign outside.
Unfortunately, education systems are dictated by legislators, who are often old and out-of-touch. So I doubt we’ll see a change in the education requirements any time soon. But, just like how keyboarding has replaced cursive in the classrooms, it will eventually come.
wischi@programming.dev 17 hours ago
Are you from the US? I’m completely amazed that there are counties we you are almost never exposed to analog clocks. I’m from Europe and analog clocks are everywhere. Every train station, public buildings, churches, clock towers, homes, wrist watches. Heck we even have tons of (but more because of esthetics instead of serious time keeping) sun dials on walls (which the analog clock and the clock wise direction is based on - for the north hemisphere). Many appliances/devices have digital clocks but that’s not because the are more modern/better but because they are way cheaper to produce and have less moving parts.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Europe has a lot more cultural attachment to their buildings as they have histories that go back a lot longer.
Murica, doesn’t and its part of why they have such awful car centricity.
The car lobbyists were basically allowed to design American cities.
Snowcano@startrek.website 14 hours ago
Seriously! I’m absolutely baffled by the comments here talking about how analog clocks are somehow this bizarre anarchism from the distant past that is just sooooooo difficult to understand. Wtf has been going on over there??
nickiwest@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I’m from the US, but I’m currently a teacher in South America. Kids here are even worse at reading analog clocks than my students in the US were.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Mind you, they are the people who measure area in “stadiums” and the distance in “football fields” because they are too stupid to comprehend the metric system.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Dpes no one in Europe ever use object for a reference. Like it’s as tall the efifle tower, or that like running 3 laps around a football feild.
Of I were to say that America east to west would stretch from the straights of jerblarter to paar Istanbul. Does break their mind because they only understand km.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah the for a long timw the cheapest watches were digital ones. And omce led even old red ones you cloid make digital clocks very very cheap.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
What the actual fuck? Are you not using wrist watches at all? Because most of these are analogue.
nickiwest@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Not currently teaching in a “US hole.” I’ve been teaching in South America for 5 years and I have never noticed an analog clock in a public place here.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Unless it change in last few years the cheapest wrist watched arw digital
Baizey@feddit.dk 13 hours ago
Why would you use a wristwatch tho?
And I’m saying this as a European
frank@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Surely this comes from the American, not European point of view, yeah?
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
I’m 32, I wear an analog clock on my arm every day