Teacher gave me visual aids but they didn't help.
Anyway, I failed the mission. He just could not grasp it.
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When I was in college I decided to get a phone in my dorm room, which was a rarity (there were two pay phones on the floor and house phones). The phone rep said plug in according to colors vs wrapping wires-it sounded like it was a new thing.
When I was growing up, all the school clocks were analog and since students were always looking at what time school ended (or lunch), reading analog was no problem. Even when I was teaching 20 years back, we only had analog clocks.neonzx wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 12:16 am When I was in 4th grade (1976ish) my teacher tasked me to help a fellow student on how to read an analog clock. We did a few sessions. Alan was kinda slow in the head (held back) and twice my size being older. But he was nice.
Teacher gave me visual aids but they didn't help.
Anyway, I failed the mission. He just could not grasp it.
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I'm glad your teacher was into each-one-teach-one (even if Alan didn't become proficient). While being able to tell time is important, learning how to share information is more important.neonzx wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 12:16 am When I was in 4th grade (1976ish) my teacher tasked me to help a fellow student on how to read an analog clock. We did a few sessions. Alan was kinda slow in the head (held back) and twice my size being older. But he was nice.
Teacher gave me visual aids but they didn't help.
Anyway, I failed the mission. He just could not grasp it.
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Quarter to four, half to nine and other similar times are not uncommon in foreign languages.Reddog wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 12:05 pm It seems to me that calling out time verbally is different when looking at digital versus analog. As an example if I am looking at a digital clock reading 3:43, for example, I will say “three forty three”, if I am looking at an analog clock, I will say “ a quarter to four”.
Probably just me, but it’s kinda annoying to be precise to the minute most of the time. I would find a sundial precision close enough. Accuracy has its place, but not all the time. I think exact time was one of the consequences of the railroad.
Another observation, perhaps only me again, is that analog devices are observable from greater distances. For example I wonder how large the digits would need to be to be readable, from the same distance, in Big Ben.
It is not just you.Reddog wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 12:05 pm It seems to me that calling out time verbally is different when looking at digital versus analog. As an example if I am looking at a digital clock reading 3:43, for example, I will say “three forty three”, if I am looking at an analog clock, I will say “ a quarter to four”.
Probably just me, but it’s kinda annoying to be precise to the minute most of the time. I would find a sundial precision close enough. Accuracy has its place, but not all the time. I think exact time was one of the consequences of the railroad.
No likely not. Don't know what happened with him. He was not at school in the next year. Moved with family or something.
I recall doing that also.MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 2:51 pm I remember learning how to read an analog clock in Kindergarten or 1st grade. I distinctly remember making a clock face from a paper plate.
With the Mickey Mouse / Minnie Mouse face on an Apple watch, you just have to tap the screen.northland10 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 6:10 pm I still look at my watch even though all I have to do is ask, "Hey Google, what time is it?"
One of my girlfriends claimed she couldn't read a clock because she was "absent from school that day".AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 12:00 am About fifty years ago, my husband and I had to teach his little sister, who was born in 1961, how to read an analog clock. Their mom was an early adopter of digital clocks, and that was all that she had in the house. We were living in Michigan at the time, so I'd say she was about six or seven years old at the time.
My grandkids, now 14 and 10, we taught it when they about the same ages, maybe a little sooner.
We bought a lamp that was made from a real candlestick phone (the kind without a dial). We took the lamp parts off of it and wired it so we could plug it into an RJ45 jack. Visitors would come and pick up the earpiece, and hurriedly replace it when they heard a dial tone.
I'm glad I went to school when they had analog clocks. Imagine the torture of watching a digital clock changing time only once every minute.MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 7:15 pm I haven't been in a school building in years. Do they no longer have analog clocks in the hallways or classrooms? They've all been replaced with digital clocks?
... and that feeling on really dull days that the big hand might be moving backwardszekeb wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 7:58 pmI'm glad I went to school when they had analog clocks. Imagine the torture of watching a digital clock changing time only once every minute.MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 7:15 pm I haven't been in a school building in years. Do they no longer have analog clocks in the hallways or classrooms? They've all been replaced with digital clocks?