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The video was published on May 29, 2019 to YouTube, it has not been revised. The video is for reading analog clocks. The source is Haley Wraight's Youtube channel. The title is not capitalized. The purpose of the video is to entertain and persuade the viewer.

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Why you should learn how to read an analog clock

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The videos was published on May 29, 2019 to Youtube, It has not been revised. The video agrees with my claim. The source is Jimmy Kimmel Live's YouTube channel. There are no spelling or grammar errors. The purpose of the video is to entertain the viewer.

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The picture was published on May 29, 2019 to YouTube, it has not been revised. The image agrees with my claim. The source is Jimmy Kimmel Live. There are no spelling or grammar errors, and the purpose of the picture is to inform people that the next generation cant read analog clocks.

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The picture was published in 2020, it has not been revised. The picture is for reading analog clocks. The source is Getty Images. There are no spelling or grammar errors. The purpose of the picture is to persuade the viewer that reading analog clocks is fun.

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The picture was published in 2020, it has not been revised. The picture is for reading analog clocks. The sources are Mixetto, iStock, and Getty Images Plus. There are no spelling or grammar errors, and the picture is informing the viewer that it is important to read analog clocks.

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The picture was published in 2020, it has not been revised. The picture is for reading analog clocks. The source is Shutterstock. There are no spelling or grammar errors. The purpose of the article is to inform the viewer that kids can read analog clocks.

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The article was published on May 8, 2018, at 8:00 p.m.The article has not been revised. The article is for reading analog clocks. The author is Herb Scribner, a writer and editor for desert.com. There are no spelling or grammar mistakes in the article. The purpose of the article is to inform people that analog clocks are needed in schools.

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Some students just can't handle analog clocks.

British schools will be removing analog clocks from their testing areas because teenagers at those schools can't tell the time, officials told The Telegraph.

Teachers have started installing digital clocks instead.

It hasn't become the standard for teachers to take down analog clocks, according to BBC News, though. It appears to be the exception and not the rule.

Rather, teachers have announced their decisions on social media, according to the BBC. Two examples of the tweets were no longer available, but you can see images of those tweets here and here.

The decision came after students complained they couldn't read the analog clocks during a recent round of exams, igniting anxiety that they wouldn't finish their tests on time.

Officials told The Telegraph that today's youths have become used to digital clocks.

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

A report in the Times Educational Supplement about a recent conference said young people need digital clocks because they can't read older ones.

Schools, however, want students to focus on the exams rather than the time constraints they might have, according to Fox News. Officials said they hope students will stop worrying about the clocks.

Sally Payne, a senior pediatric occupational therapist at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, said children also have struggled recently to hold pencils and pens because of technology, The Blaze reported.

"To be able to grip a pencil and move it, you need strong control of the fine muscles in your fingers," she told the Telegraph. "Children need lots of (opportunities) to develop those skills."

She added that it's "easier to give a child an iPad than encouraging them to do muscle-building play such as building blocks, cutting and sticking, or pulling toys and ropes. Because of this, they're not developing the underlying foundation skills they need to grip and hold a pencil."

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New report says kids can't read analog clocks anymore

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Some students just can't handle analog clocks. British schools will be removing analog clocks from their testing areas because teenagers at those schools can't tell the time, officials told The Telegraph. Teachers have started installing digital clocks instead. It hasn't become the standard for teachers to take down analog clocks, according to BBC News, though.

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The article was published on April 24, 2018, at 1:02 p.m. The article has not been revised. The article is for reading analog clocks. The author is Camilla Turner, an education editor for telegraph.co.uk. There are no grammar or spelling mistakes in the article. The purpose of the article is to persuade people that learning to tell time on an analog clock is a valuable skill.

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Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers ‘cannot tell the time’

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Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.

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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.

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Can your kids read an analog clock? You know, the round ones with hands. Like the Rocket Clock in Play School (as opposed to the digital watches that were soooo cool in Back to the Future).

Learning to tell the time on an analog clock is HARD and, pardon the pun, it is a skill that takes time to master.

Some people think that kids are increasingly unable to read analog clocks. I haven't been able to find hard evidence to support this claim but, from anecdotal evidence, it is certainly true that some kids are reach their teenage years without developing this skill, despite digital and analog time telling featuring equally on our school curriculums.

It is unsurprising - digital clocks are far more common, especially for "i-Gen" kids brought up with screens. Yet there are still enough analog clocks around - in people's homes, on town halls and on people's wrists - to make it an important skill to learn.

So how does a kid learn to read a clock with hands?

Sonja Walker is a teacher with 30 years' experience. She points out that the most important thing is to have regular exposure. "I suggest having analog clocks around your house, and buying your primary schooler an analog watch," she says.

She also suggests consciously using the lingo associated with time. "Use a timer when you are encouraging your kids to take turns, or say things like: 'We need to pick up Sarah from soccer at 5pm so let's look at the clock to see what time it is now.'"

Play School has the right idea by starting with hour and half-hour times, something that is echoed in the early years of our school curriculums. "After that, you need to know patterns of five," says Walker.

This is where analog clocks get super confusing. Roger Shackleton, who realised just how confusing when he tried to teach his daughter, sums it up beautifully: "When the minute hand points to one, we need to say five; when it points to five we need to say 25; when it points to seven we also need to say 25; when it points to 10 we do actually say 10."

Shackleton realised that there must be an easier way. He hand-crafted a clock that contained more information than regular analog clocks. "It was made of cardboard and had Mickey Mouse hands," he says.

He added numbers to correspond to the minutes and lengthened the minute hand so that it pointed right to the numbers. He then added the words PAST to one half, TO to the other, and a bit of colour coding for good measure.

"Now all the information needed was on the clock," he concludes.

From there, it becomes a simple three step process to tell the time. "All a child has to do is read the number the long hand is pointing to, say whether it is on the 'past' or 'to' side of the clock, then read the number that the short hand is pointing to," Shackleton says.

The idea was so successful that, after his daughters had totally mastered telling the time, Shackleton created a commercial version of his cardboard clock. I used one with my kids so totally agree with Shackleton when he says: "Telling the time had gone from being inexplicable, to three simple steps that can be learned in just a few minutes."

Of course, there is a bit more to it than that. There is learning the concepts of quarter past, quarter to, and knowing that half past four is the same things as four 30. Then there is working out how much time is left before something happens by subtracting using 60 as the base number rather than 100. And, for extra degrees of difficulty, there are roman numerals and the 24-hour clock to master.

But, once the fundamentals are in place, these more complex elements are easier.

Like all skills, learning to read a clock will come more naturally to some kids than others. Walker, who now runs a multidisciplinary service for kids facing challenges with their learning, says: "For some kids, the whole concept of time is hard, it is abstract and some kids will likely always have gaps in their skills."

Like all skills, reading an analog clock will be developed more quickly and fully when they are learned both at school and at home.

If you need some add some humour into the equation, hit YouTube for these hilarious takes on the topic.

An analog clock-reading Vox Pop by Jimmy Kimmel:

An oldie-but-a-goodie - veteran comic Dave Allen routine on the challenges of teaching your child how to tell the time:

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Do kids really need to know how to read an analog clock?

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Can your kids read an analog clock? You know, the round ones with hands. Like the Rocket Clock in Play School (as opposed to the digital watches that were soooo cool in Back to the Future). Learning to tell the time on an analog clock is HARD and, pardon the pun, it is a skill that takes time to master.

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The article was published on May 4, 2018 at 1:26 p.m. The article was revised on May 4, 2018 at 2:26 p.m. The article is meant for showing the pros of kids reading analog clocks. The article is from the newspaper "USA Today", and is written by Brett Molina. There are no spelling or grammar errors, and the article is meant to persuade the reader.

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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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Some students don't know how to read analog clocks. Is it the end of an era?

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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?