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The Internet is abuzz over an article that claims that U.K. schools are removing analog clocks from classrooms because students can't read them. But is telling time, much like writing cursive, really going extinct? Probably not.

"The current generation isn't as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations," Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), told The Telegraph, explaining that kids are more used to seeing things digitally.

However, what many people miss is what Trobe said next-that the real reason schools are considering replacing analog clocks with digital ones is to make exams less stressful for students.

"Schools will inevitably be doing their best to make young children feel as relaxed as they can be," he explained to the British newspaper. "There is actually a big advantage in using digital clocks in exam rooms because it is much less easy to mistake a time on a digital clock when you are working against time."

According to Trobe, students can more quickly estimate how many minutes they have left on a test when they're looking at a digital clock.

So far, the clock-replacing initiative is only being considered in U.K. schools. In the U.S., kids who attend public schools that follow the Common Core curriculum are still taught how to tell time. The specific curriculum standard states that in first grade, students must be able to "tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks."

It's a skill that Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, doesn't think will go away anytime soon in America. "There's a lot of very complex mathematical manipulations that are involved in being able to tell time with an analog clock," Burris told CBS. "It takes some of the math skills students are learning and gives them an important real-world context."

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Schools in Britain are throwing their hands up over kids who can't tell time on traditional clocks.

Some U.K. schools are ditching analog clocks from test rooms because a generation of kids raised on digital clocks can't read them and are getting stressed about time running out during tests, London's Telegraph reports.

"The current generation aren't as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations," Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the U.K.'s Association of School and College Leaders, told The Telegraph.

"They are used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone, on their computer. Nearly everything they've got is digital so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere."

Officials believed the clocks are causing undue stress because kids can't figure out how much time they have remaining to complete a test.

"You don't want them to put their hand up to ask how much time is left,'' Trobe said.

"Schools will inevitably be doing their best to make young children feel as relaxed as the can be. There is actually a big advantage in using digital clocks in exam rooms because it is much less easy to mistake a time on a digital clock when you are working against time."

It's not just British kids, either. American kids also have their struggles figuring out what those ticking hands on a clock mean.

An Arizona elementary school teacher wrote a blog post in 2014 about whether students should still be taught how to read analog clocks, arguing that they help visual learners but also noting that they are rapidly becoming a thing of the past.

Jimmy Kimmel had some fun with the issue on his late-night show Tuesday.

A group of kids on the street were each asked to tell the time by looking at an analog clock and the results weren't pretty. (Kudos to the one kid who got it right).

Move over, VCRs, rotary phones and answering machines. It might be time to make room for analog clocks.
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Schools in Britain are throwing their hands up over kids who can't tell time on traditional clocks. Some U.K. schools are ditching analog clocks from test rooms because a generation of kids raised on digital clocks can't read them and are getting stressed about time running out during tests, London's Telegraph reports.

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The times, they are a changin' ... literally.According to The Telegraph, some schools in Great Britain are throwing away old, analog clocks because they're worried students won't be able to properly keep time while taking high-level exams. They're replacing them with easier-to-read digital clocks.Former school headmaster and current Deputy General Secretary at the U.K.'s Association of School and College Leaders, Malcolm Trobe, told The Telegraph that he believes it's a move that meets kids and teens where they're most comfortable. "They are used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone, on their computer. Nearly everything they've got is digital, so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere," Trobe said.The controversial idea of removing analog timepieces has stirred up a lot of emotion from people online, and some are comparing it to the increasing loss of teaching cursive in schools. Others, however, think it's just a sign that technology is advancing, and as long as the fundamentals are being taught, it's not that big of a deal.It's worth noting, however, that the U.K. is experimenting with the idea of doing away with analog time only in the exam room, for now.Trobe told The Telegraph that he hopes learning to read a clock face will still be taught in elementary school, but that, by doing away with the extra stress in the test-taking environment, students will have more time to focus on the exams."You don't want them to put their hand up to ask how much time is left," he said."One hopes that we will be teaching youngsters to read clocks, however, we can see the benefit of digital clocks in exam rooms."Time will tell whether or not this new move sticks in classrooms across the U.K. and other parts of the world.

The times, they are a changin' ... literally.

According to The Telegraph, some schools in Great Britain are throwing away old, analog clocks because they're worried students won't be able to properly keep time while taking high-level exams. They're replacing them with easier-to-read digital clocks.

Former school headmaster and current Deputy General Secretary at the U.K.'s Association of School and College Leaders, Malcolm Trobe, told The Telegraph that he believes it's a move that meets kids and teens where they're most comfortable.

"They are used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone, on their computer. Nearly everything they've got is digital, so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere," Trobe said.

The controversial idea of removing analog timepieces has stirred up a lot of emotion from people online, and some are comparing it to the increasing loss of teaching cursive in schools.

Others, however, think it's just a sign that technology is advancing, and as long as the fundamentals are being taught, it's not that big of a deal.

It's worth noting, however, that the U.K. is experimenting with the idea of doing away with analog time only in the exam room, for now.

Trobe told The Telegraph that he hopes learning to read a clock face will still be taught in elementary school, but that, by doing away with the extra stress in the test-taking environment, students will have more time to focus on the exams.

"You don't want them to put their hand up to ask how much time is left," he said.

"One hopes that we will be teaching youngsters to read clocks, however, we can see the benefit of digital clocks in exam rooms."

Time will tell whether or not this new move sticks in classrooms across the U.K. and other parts of the world.

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The times, they are a changin' ... literally.According to The Telegraph, some schools in Great Britain are throwing away old, analog clocks because they're worried students won't be able to properly keep time while taking high-level exams. They're replacing them with easier-to-read digital clocks.Former school headmaster and current Deputy General Secretary at the U.K.'s Association of School and College Leaders, Malcolm Trobe, told The Telegraph that he believes it's a move that meets kids and teens where they're most comfortable.

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In the age of smart phones and tablets, it's no wonder children are more familiar with using a digital clock to tell the time than an analogue one. But now schools are considering removing clocks from exam halls because teens are unable to tell how much time they have left. So is this becoming a problem?

A head teachers' union has said instead, schools will install digital devices so kids don't have to put their hand up to find out what the time is. "The current generation aren't as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations," Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders ( ASCL) told The Telegraph. "Nearly everything they've got is digital so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere."

He added that he hopes young children coming up into secondary school will be taught to read clocks. So should we be ensuring can tell the time from an early age?

"Telling the time is a basic life skill that children should learn," argued Siobhan Freegard, founder of parenting site ChannelMum.com. "As children grow up surrounded by devices using the digital clock it is definitely making it harder, but certainly not impossible."

Mum Charlie Beswick, a former primary school teacher and current secondary school teacher, says she's seen firsthand how kids are struggling with analogue clocks. "When I taught at primary school some children who struggled with basic number work were great at time," she said. "Now, some Year 9 pupils I teach can't tell the time." Despite this, she thinks it's really important, adding that she has taught her young son to tell the time: "It's so important."

And another mum, Laura Turner, agreed, adding: "My son is three and I will start to teach him before he goes to school - I think it's down to parents to make sure!"

Freegard said that being able to tell analogue time is essential for later life, especially if kids want to travel as it's used worldwide ‎and at a younger age it regularly features on exam questions.

How to teach your kids to tell the time:

One option is to sit down with a watch or clock - such as this great wooden one - to go through time-telling, you could also try to find online resources that make things a little easier.

:: Time Monsters is a good website using animations, which separates out teaching kids in three stages: 1) hands on the clock; 2) to and past; and 3) numbers on the clock

:: BBC Bitesize has an interactive site on how to tell the time, full of animations and videos appealing to kids.

:: Oxford Owl also has online resources for parents to help kids learn the time, such as a 'telling the time' activity sheet and 'create your own clock'. They also have tips online for parents, including drawing attention to time day-to-day (mention the time at different points in the day such as "It's 5 o'clock, time for tea") and also to make sure your child is confident with numbers and counting from 1-60.

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In late April 2018 rumors about schools' removing analog clocks because students couldn't read them began to pop up all across the Internet:

Analog clocks are kinda the worst. tbh. https://t.co/JwWYOtb8HM

- BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) May 3, 2018

Kids can't tell time anymore! Aren't they supposed to be taught in schools? What are they doing in schools? https://t.co/fYBnLY6gwL

- Bethann (@sewwutnow) May 4, 2018

Not unexpectedly, readers combined truncated headlines and conversations with what they already believed to be true: that students in 2018 are bereft of the most basic life skills, including knowing how to read the time from a standard clock face.

Richmond, Virginia, television station WWBT was among several regional news affiliates repeating a somewhat inaccurate version of the story:

Schools in Great Britain, which is home to Big Ben, are removing analog clocks from classrooms because the students can't read what time the clocks say, according to a report in The Telegraph.

Of course, another option would be to teach the students to read the clocks.

[An] official told The Telegraph he hopes that happens.

In that report at least one frequently-overlooked detail was present: that the information pertained to schools in the United Kingdom, not the United States. Like nearly all local versions of this story, WWBT referenced an April 2018 article from The Telegraph but omitted some key details present in the original report.

According to the story's most notable early appearance, the topic of analog clocks in schools came up only in the context of a specific type of examination. A representative of an educators' association explained that for exams which were not unlike the United States' Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), teachers had grown weary of disruptions from students unsure about how much time remained in the testing session.

Although the report began by saying that schools were "removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time," it explained that teachers (not students) ushered in the change due in part to disruptions:

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.

Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said youngsters have become accustomed to using digital devices ... Mr Trobe, a former headmaster, said that teachers want their students to feel as relaxed as possible during exams. Having a traditional clock in the room could be a cause of unnecessary stress, he added.

"You don't want them to put their hand up to ask how much time is left," he said.

"Schools will inevitably be doing their best to make young children feel as relaxed as they can be. There is actually a big advantage in using digital clocks in exam rooms because it is much less easy to mistake a time on a digital clock when you are working against time."

Trobe did say that some students struggled to interpret time from standard clocks, but the observation was made entirely in the context of students' trying to estimate the time remaining (not necessarily trying to tell time in general) during high-stakes standardized examinations (not during ordinary classroom exams, tests, or quizzes). But social media users quickly abbreviated the claim made by one educator to suggest that multiple schools were filling dumpsters with analog clocks because modern students found them unreadable, while the more specific story was misrepresented in both local news reports and social media conversations.

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In late April 2018 rumors about schools' removing analog clocks because students couldn't read them began to pop up all across the Internet: Analog clocks are kinda the worst. tbh. https://t.co/JwWYOtb8HM - BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) May 3, 2018 Kids can't tell time anymore! Aren't they supposed to be taught in schools?

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What has two hands and a face but no arms and legs? A clock, of course! Some kids won't understand that joke because the only clocks they know how to use have digital numbers.

A teachers union in the U.K. says not only are teenagers more used to digital clocks these days, some don't even know how to read analog clocks, The Telegraph reports.

"The current generation aren't as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations," Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders, told the newspaper.

As high-school-age students in the U.K. prepare for their major standardized tests, the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and A-level exams, schools are working to make the process easier for them. Exam rooms used to have analog clocks, but as test day draws near, those will be replaced with digital clocks so students can keep track of their time.

"Nearly everything they've got is digital so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere," Trobe told The Telegraph. Teachers want their students to feel as relaxed as possible during exams and having an analog clock in the room could be a cause of unnecessary stress, he said.

In the United States, schools using the Common Core curriculum standards for math must teach kids how to read analog as well as clocks in the first grade.

In 2014, an Arizona teacher made headlines for questioning whether it was time to retire the analog clock in an age of smartphones and smartwatches where everything is digital. The teacher cited a colleague who wanted to teach his seventh grade class because they couldn't read the analog clock on the wall.

However, analog clocks continue to be used in U.S. schools and it seems their time won't expire any time soon.

Carol Burris, executive director of the advocacy Network for Public Education and former educator with more than 25 years experience, explained why learning how to read analog clocks holds value. "The skills that you need to read an analog clock are skills that kids when they're young begin to learn," she told USA Today, citing concepts such as counting by fives and fractions.

It's an issue that echoes the debate over teaching cursive writing, which some schools started phasing out as computer keyboards came to dominate. The backlash to that decision prompted a number of states to bring back cursive in recent years.

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Teachers began to notice that it was taking longer than normal to teach junior pupils how to tell the time, either because they were not being taught at home or were not receiving "regular reinforcement" from looking at their watches.

However, it quickly became clear the problem was not limited to the younger pupils.

Mrs MacGinty told The Telegraph: "Our head of maths, Mrs Stephanie Speed, mentioned to me that she was also becoming increasingly concerned as more and more senior girls who were joining the school lacked this basic skill.

"Additionally there are maths applications that need this skill. It's a fundamental numeracy life skill. We are encouraging parents and guardians to buy wristwatches for girls from aged five."

It's certainly not a matter of lack of intelligence.

These are pupils, after all, who have happily mastered complex calculus and equations that would stump the majority of adults.

But just as, following the introduction of domestic electricity, there must have been a generation of children who had no idea how to light the gas lamps their parents had grown up with, the paradigm shift from analogue to digital technology has created a divide in everyday knowledge.

Mrs MacGinty insists however that there are some skills that should transcend the generations.

"Society is changing and the curriculum should change to reflect this," she said. "But some skills are too important to ignore.

"For example, we are still teaching pupils to read rail and bus timetables, even though it is no longer in the senior school maths syllabus, because it is important that pupils understand how to read these."

She added: "Having the ability to understand the movement of the minute hand and the hour hand around the face of a clock gives young people a tangible understanding of the passing of time, not just numbers changing on a digital screen."

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- There is a debate about whether schools should continue to teach kids how to tell time.

In the United Kingdom, schools are now getting rid of analog clocks because kids just don't know how to read them. Some are now pushing for U.S. schools to follow suit.

RELATED: NC Lawmakers Launch Cursive Writing Investigation

"Everything is so digital today; it's not necessarily a good thing," said Bob Piotrowski, a clockmaker and horologist at Time After Time in Indian Land. "Why are we losing our contact to our past? Why should we do that when we should preserve that?"

However, some say kids just can't read good ol' clocks anymore. NBC Charlotte set out to discover if that's really true. We quizzed several kids on their analog clock skills. It wasn't a shining success.

The truth is the analog clock might be gathering dust in 2018. Yet there are still people like Bob who aren't giving up just yet.

"I don't want this to die," he said. "Time's not up. It's not over, it's not over 'til the bell strikes."
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Can you use a slide rule? Can you edit a video? These were two of the questions that came to me when I heard news of anxious debate over the fact that some schools were switching to digital clocks in exam halls because "teenagers cannot tell the time".

The story came about after comments from a former headteacher, Malcolm Trobe, now deputy general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, who said "the current generation aren't as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations". To help minimise stress in important exams, he has suggested switching to digital clocks.

As a maths teacher and a parent, I know that one of the requirements in the key stage 1 curriculum is for children to be taught how to read a traditional clock face. On questioning friends, teachers and students, I found few don't achieve this. That older students might be finding calculating the time they have left in exams difficult is thus more likely about practice. For most pupils - and adults too - digital displays are simply more common, whether on train platforms, computer screens or mobile phones.

Trobe's comments don't appear to be backed up by any large-scale study, so I will offer the results of my own, rather unscientific, survey: although a couple got the time wrong before correcting themselves, all the teenagers I spoke to were able to read an analogue clock perfectly well. However, for many this wasn't an embedded reflex - doing so required a level of thought akin to performing a calculation. They get there, but they have to think about it.

Outrage at the apparent stupidity of millennials and the generations following them has become a trope for the press

It therefore seems sensible for Trobe to suggest that, when students are meant to be focusing all their thinking on answering exam questions, they are shown the time in the way they are most familiar with.

However, this still leaves us with the deeper question as to why this change in timekeeping technology has caused such a furore. Nobody is suggesting that children have no idea what time is; the sense of outrage seems to be because the devices children are using aren't the ones in common use 40 years ago.

I experienced the same exasperation when I was at school and my maths teacher discovered that none of us could use a slide rule. I remember the sneering dismissal of us as hopelessly stupid, the sigh that worried what the world was coming to.

In fact, when taught, we picked up the method quickly enough and enjoyed the nostalgic feel of using an "old" tool. But did we deem it a necessary skill to master and put to daily use? No.

This is what gave rise to my questions. How many of those now huffing about pupils so dim they can't read a clock face could themselves still calculate in pre-decimal currency, use an abacus, or calculate their longitude using a sextant? All these once-essential skills have fallen into disuse not because we have become more stupid, but because our tools have become more sophisticated.

I also wonder if those complaining would be able to throw together a film with fades, dissolves and subtitles. All my students are fluent with such tools, which leave many of their parents looking rather dull in comparison.

Outrage at the apparent stupidity of millennials and the generations following them has become a trope for certain sections of the press, one that is crass and offensive. As GCSE season arrives I can't help but think that this storm over clock faces is an early shot in the annual "exams are getting easier" vein.

We have been here before. Indignation over such technological change is a generational shibboleth, a means of testing membership of the "proper" world as certain privileged adults have labelled it.

Rather than perpetuating a tired struggle about which technologies signify this proper intelligence in those coming after us, what we should celebrate instead is the extraordinary proficiency that our young people are developing with suites of tools so sophisticated they make telling the time seem like child's play.

* Kester Brewin is a maths teacher based in south-east London
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Despite smartphones and other technological advances, one object has withstood the test of time: the analog clock.

Many of us remember learning about them in schools, between the "big hand, little hand" and converting those numbers to multiples of 5.

But is the analog clock's life in schools slowly ticking away?

According to London's Telegraph, some schools in the U.K. are ditching analog clocks for digital ones because students are struggling to read them.

"The current generation aren't as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations," said Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders.

Telling time is a key part of elementary school curriculum in the U.S., as many kids read the hands on a clock and write out the correct time.

In 2014, a teacher in Arizona discussed whether it was time to retire the analog clock in an age of smartphones and smartwatches where everything is digital, citing a colleague who wanted to teach his seventh grade class because they couldn't read the analog clock on the wall.

Carol Burris, executive director of the advocacy Network for Public Education and former educator with more than 25 years experience, said teaching analog time still holds value.

"The skills that you need to read an analog clock are skills that kids when they're young begin to learn," she said, citing concepts such as counting by fives and fractions.

Meanwhile, schools using Common Core standards for math require educators to teach kids in earlier grades such as first or second.

While schools in the U.K. have chosen to pull analog clocks, it appears the devices' time in U.S. schools won't expire any time soon.

"There's a lot of very complex mathematical manipulations that are involved in being able to tell time with an analog clock," Burris said. "It takes some of the math skills students are learning and gives them an important real world context."
Follow Brett Molina on Twitter: @brettmolina23.

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It looks like the analog clock's days may be numbered. According to a recent article in the Telegraph, some U.K. schools are removing them from exam halls after discovering teenagers have a hard time reading traditional clock faces. Apparently the move is an attempt to reduce testing anxiety in a generation raised on digital devices. "The current generation aren't as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations," said Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders, in an interview with the newspaper. "They are used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone, on their computer. Nearly everything they've got is digital so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere."

The news was met with as much hand wringing as I'm sure met the phasing out of such necessary skills as reading a sun dial or spooling a type writer. "I would be the teacher who would say tough - but apparently that's not how kids are raised," wrote one Twitter denizen. He went on to lament that these same kids probably couldn't read Roman numerals-where exactly those two things connect, I'm still not sure. Another American analog acolyte who didn't apparently read that the clock phase out was taking place in the U.K. asked, "Are we getting out [sic] money's worth from government education? We know students cannot write in script. Or are they just being taught anti-social behavior, multi-gender personalities and anti-American hatred for our Founding?" A significant number of commentators responded to the news with something along the lines of, "Teach them to read it then?" To which I would answer, "Why?"

The fact that analog clocks have managed to stand the test of time in an increasingly digitized world is a bit of a wonder. While there may be nothing quite as charming as the quiet tick of a watch, the fact that teachers are adapting to the fact that a fair number of teenagers can't read an analog clock isn't another sign of corruption in The Youth. It means, as Nobel Prize Winner Bob Dylan once wrote, that times are a-changing. It doesn't make sense for a teacher to waste precious class time to teach teenagers how to read an analog clock just so they can tell time during an exam. And if students can't read traditional clock faces with relative ease by the time they're sitting for exams, it means one of two things: Somewhere down the line their teacher prioritized other knowledge over doing countless worksheets on telling time, or they've just forgotten something they learned in elementary school once they tested out of that grade.

Kids in America who learn under Common Core standards are required to be taught how to read an analog clock in first or second grade; if kids in the U.K. are taught around the same time than it wouldn't be entirely surprising to learn that they forgot how to do so by the time they're teenagers. With the sheer amount of stuff kids are expected to know once state exams roll around, it's understandable that they'd get a bit rusty on something they're not using every day.

Plenty of naysayers will crow about the practical use of knowing how to read an analog clock once the electricity goes out, but since when is school about teaching practical skills? I don't remember learning how to file an insurance claim or write a check or pay taxes in school, all skills that are objectively more practical in the long run than reading an analog clock. That's not to say that the skill needs to go the way of cursive: Telling time on a traditional clock face is a real world application of complex mathematical skills and teachers seem to agree that it gives children a different relation to time than reading a digital clock does. "Analog clocks are great for teaching time management [and] concepts including the passage of time," answered one Arizonan teacher when asked why she still felt the skill was important to teach. "Even our little kids who don't yet have the concept of numerals can understand that when the big hand is on this red line it's time to line up."

By all means, I'm sure small children will continue to be taught multiples of five through the use of an analog clock. But it's entirely fair for that skill to fade by the time those kids reach puberty and for teachers to adapt to the fact that the days of analog ubiquity are slowly ticking away.

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Some U.K. Schools Are Phasing Out the Analog Clock. It's About Time.

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It looks like the analog clock's days may be numbered. According to a recent article in the Telegraph, some U.K. schools are removing them from exam halls after discovering teenagers have a hard time reading traditional clock faces. Apparently the move is an attempt to reduce testing anxiety in a generation raised on digital devices.