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this was posted by a/battledoopart2 and was posted on reddit and is meant to entertain.

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this pictures purpose is to entertain and to give insight in to what its deeper meaning.

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this article by joe kissell teaches the reader that we as humans are still fascinated by digital clocks.this is also used as an excuse to talk about how stupid it is that we are getting ride of analog.

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Author Douglas Adams famously made fun of earthlings for being "so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." Shortly before he died, Adams gave a talk at the University of California, Santa Barbara (not far from his home), at the end of which there was a brief question-and-answer session. A woman stood up and asked Adams the question that had been bothering her for decades: what did he have against digital watches? The crowd probably expected him to toss off a witty one-liner in response. Instead, he gave a very thoughtful answer that, in true Douglas Adams fashion, made ordinary human behavior seem self-evidently absurd.

After admitting that his comment had originally been written in the days when digital watches were themselves fairly primitive (and, ironically, required two hands to operate), Adams couched his complaint-appropriately-using an analogy. In the early days of personal computers, he said, people got very excited that their spreadsheet programs could finally create pie charts. This was considered a revolutionary advance, because as everyone knows, a pie chart visually represents a part-whole relationship in a way that is immediately obvious-a way that, to be more specific, mere columns of numbers did not. Well, the hands of an analog timepiece form wedges that look very much like a pie chart, and like a pie chart, they represent a sort of part-whole relationship in a way that requires a bare minimum of mental effort to comprehend. Not so digital timepieces, which for all their precision say nothing about the relationship of one time of day to another.

Ticked Off

Although digital watches have their place and are in no danger of becoming extinct, analog models (and, more recently, analog faces on smartwatches) have enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent years, and I think that's just marvelous. Now, I've always liked digital watches, for both aesthetic and practical reasons. But when I stopped to think about it, I realized that it is far less useful to know that it's 10:13 than that it's quarter past ten, and that when I read the time in a digital format, I nearly always have to perform an additional mental calculation to figure out what time it "really" is-that is, what that string of numbers actually means in terms of how much of the day has gone by or how much longer I can sleep before getting up to go to work.

Studies have shown alarmingly that many children today-and even a fair number of adults-cannot tell time using an analog clock or watch because they have only ever been exposed to digital timepieces. Presumably, someone whose only experience of timekeeping has been digital would not expend any extra mental effort figuring out how much of an hour had elapsed at 7:52-but then, such a person may have to think harder on other occasions, being unable to visually judge the "distance" between two times. Be that as it may, one clearly must be able at least to identify numbers and count in order to tell time with a digital watch, whereas even without knowing any numbers, someone can tell roughly what time of day it is using an analog watch.

Second Opinion

Analog watch or clock faces-even the ones whose hands decisively click into well-defined positions rather than moving smoothly in a circle-convey a fuzzy or approximate sense of time at a casual glance. This is a good thing, not only for the sake of children's education but because time itself is continuous, not an infinite series of discrete steps (unless you believe in quantized time, but even if you do, you must admit that human perception of time is continuous). Units like seconds, minutes, and hours are just a convenient, arbitrary fiction, after all-they don't represent anything objectively real in the world. As linguist George Lakoff pointed out in his book Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, we like to talk about time as though it were money-a thing that can be spent, saved, earned, or wasted-but this is all merely a conceit of language. Thus, to the extent that analog timepieces distance us less from reality than digital ones do, I've got to believe they help to keep us ever-so-slightly more human.

Some people have argued that analog watches, for all their merits, are still too complicated because they artificially divide the day into two arbitrary cycles; there are, unsurprisingly, 24-hour clocks and watches of various designs intended to address this limitation. When an hour hand goes around a dial just once per day, it's easier to picture what it's an analog of: namely, the rotation of the Earth (more or less). A sundial, needless to say, gives a representation of time that's even closer cognitively to its source, but much less accurate (and inconveniently nonfunctional at night).

Nowadays, it's possible to make analog timepieces every bit as accurate as digital models, and for those who dislike a ticking sound or prefer the no-moving-parts aesthetic, the aforementioned "analog" smartwatch faces (and similar designs on larger timepieces) should do the trick. In short, the analog clock is having its revenge by providing all the benefits of digital timepieces in a human-brain-friendly package. None of this is news; I could have written essentially the same thing decaedes ago. But it is exciting that we earthlings are somehow able to come to our senses and overcome these collective blips of faulty judgment. Let's all keep up the good work.
Note: This is an updated version of an article that originally appeared on Interesting Thing of the Day on September 4, 2004.

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Author Douglas Adams famously made fun of earthlings for being "so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." Shortly before he died, Adams gave a talk at the University of California, Santa Barbara (not far from his home), at the end of which there was a brief question-and-answer session.

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This is a video to entertain and shows that kids cant tell time on analog clocks

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this was made to entertain,and to inform.It is by Jimmy kimmel for his late night show and it shows that not only young kids cant tell time on an analog clock.

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This article is by viven pearson,and was posted on may 25 2018 it lists reasons why we should use analog clocks for school curriculum. It is grammatically correct its meaning is to teach students the importance of analog.

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Updated May 26, 2018 06:42:19

Alarm bells rang following reports from the UK that digital clocks are replacing their analog counterparts in high school exam rooms. Is it true that children are increasingly incapable of reading analog clocks and, more importantly, does it matter?

There is anecdotal evidence that analogue clocks are increasingly met with blank faces, with teachers chiming into the debate and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel conducting vox pop research.

Finding strong evidence is harder. Analog clock reading skill isn't a question being posed by researchers, and information from NAPLAN or other school-based assessment is not available.

Analog clock reading still ticks away on our school curriculum, ranging from reading half-hours in early primary school to 24-hour time systems being covered in later primary years. Pre-schoolers continue to be introduced to analog time by ABC TV's Play School, just as they have for over 50 years.

There is no doubt that learning to tell analog time is hard. Consider the numeral 9, which can stand for nine, 45, 15, one quarter, three quarters, or even 21.

(For a comic take on these complexities, watch Dave Allen's classic stand-up routine.)

Our children are digital natives

For a more scientific take, I asked Dr Micah Goldwater, senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at The University of Sydney.

"While the hour is somewhat sensible, with an arrow directly pointing at the number, you then need to do some proportional reasoning with, for example, three-twelfths being equivalent to fifteen-sixtieths," he says.

Digital time seems instinctively easier but still involves unique numerical concepts. "Counting [within time] is hierarchically embedded," says Dr Goldwater. "Not only do we count from, say, seven to 12 after waking up, and then back to one before two, we further count within each hour from one to 60."

In most realms of life, digital clock interfaces now vastly outnumber analog. "Our children are digital natives and, within a generation, their teachers will be also," says Sonja Walker, an experienced teacher and director of a multidisciplinary service for supporting children.

Yet analog clocks persist, and not only in historical settings. Computers and phones include analog time display options, and even research that looks at children's time telling through touch-screen technology includes both digital and analog clock faces.

And then there is fashion. "High fashion watches for teenagers are moving back to analog," says Ms Walker.

Clocks reduce students' cognitive load

Many experts see function as the predominant need.

"Analog time telling still has relevance as analog clocks are still prominent," says Ms Walker.

They have no concern about digital clocks being added to high-stress locations, such as exam rooms.

"Calculating how much time is left is easier for many people using a digital clock," says Ms Walker. "Using a digital clock in an exam room is one way of reducing the cognitive load on students. It allows them to feel less stressed and focus on the content of their exam."

"Draw a clock" is a clinical test commonly used in conditions like dementia and stroke. Drawing an analog clock with hands set to a specified time offers great insight into visuospatial ability and reasoning.

Though at least one Neurologist, Professor Simon Lewis of The University of Sydney's Brain & Mind Centre, does not anticipate a time when the clock-face test will not be able to be used, there is a real possibility that within decades at least some older people will not have the base level of skill in analog time telling required for this test to be valid.

We tell time in a linear way

The clock-face test's utility suggests that analog time telling is different at a neurological and cognitive level than its digital counterpart.

So is it a skill worth retaining for reasons other than tradition and function?

"Perhaps the circular representation of time on a clock can help encourage an understanding of the cyclical nature of days, but I haven't seen evidence for that exactly," says Dr Goldwater, who has degrees in linguistics as well as psychology.

"It is clear from both linguistic analysis and from cross-cultural experimental research that we use space to help us reason about time.

"But actually, we tend to do this in linear ways - for example, the future is ahead of us, the past is behind us and not the circular way a clock suggests."

He concludes: "Benefits, while I would never completely rule them out, are certainly not obvious."

Does analog alter how we think about time?

This leads to a more philosophical question: does only being able to read time in a digital format fundamentally alter the way we think about time?

Professor Alex Holcombe, of The University of Sydney's Centre for Time, thinks not.

"I tend to think that the shift from analog sweeps, as in a clock's hands, to digital will not undermine our experience of time being driven, despite the lack of visible movement," he says.

"I suspect it may occur but not because of the digital aspect, but rather because of the precision of digital clocks. Moreover, much more can happen now in a few minutes, thanks to technology, so that may give us a feeling we also have to be fast to keep up."

Professor Holcombe introduces mind- and time-bending concepts informed by quantum physics, mediated by psychology and philosophy.

"The experience that time flows seems to be a psychological one, because our best theories in physics say that time does not flow," he says, speaking of ideas discussed in a recent ABC Radio National broadcast titled More or less everything you know about time is wrong.

The last great shift in time telling was from sundials to mechanical timepieces. The benefits were huge, not least the ability to tell time regardless of the light.

Yet, the move away from sundials surely contributed to the loss of our sense of the direct connection between the time of day and the position of the sun in the sky.

The current move from analog to digital bring benefits of accuracy as well as ease of reading and calculating time. Other than high fashion, tradition and a useful diagnostic test, what might we lose if analog clocks go the way of the sundial?

Perhaps nothing, or perhaps we will only know once they are gone.
Vivienne Pearson is a freelance writer.
Topics: internet-technology, science-and-technology, community-and-society, united-kingdom, australia

First posted May 26, 2018 06:31:51

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In most realms of life, digital time displays now vastly outnumber analog, yet we still teach children to read clock faces and use them to test for conditions such as dementia and stroke. Perhaps we'll only know what we've lost once analog timepieces are gone, writes Vivienne Pearson.

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This article was posted on may 07 2018. This is a con article.rachel hampton is the author of this article. there are no spelling errors. this article is meant to persuade the reader to end the use of analog and use digital.

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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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This article was posted on June 28,2018. This relates to both sides of the argument. The author of this article is  eva szillery. This article   does not have any spelling nor grammatical errors. The meaning is to inform about how this is becoming a new issue.

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Peter and Maria 3, who don't yet understand the concept of numerals, are told that "When the big hand is on this line, it will be story time."Sam, 7-years-old, is putting a half-eaten sandwich in his lunch bag and asks, "I am done with my lunch, may I go out and play?" The school has a clock on the wall showing the start of lunchtime and beginning of playtime on its face. It would appear that the school designated 30 minutes for lunch before peers can play.
We cannot see it, get rid of it, contain it, or manipulate it. Time - present in our children's lives long before they begin reading letters or numerals, helps challenge all of us to become more organized and prioritize.

One of the questions I am often asked is, "Why do you teach children about analog clocks?" As our societies become more technologically advanced and implement digital clocks, we become conditioned towards mental linearity, which lacks scope and depth. Education Writer for the Washington Post, Valerie Strauss, addressed this topic last month in her article, British schools are replacing analog clocks with digital ones to help clueless students. So, the question remains, why should we continue teaching students to read analog clocks in a digital world? Here is a quick list in support of keeping analog clocks in schools:

Analog Clock Concepts Help Children Understand Time

Hearing the following phrases, "We are eating breakfast in the morning," "Going to bed at night," "It's time to go to softball practice," or, "There is no more time for one more game," gives early understanding of the time present in our lives. After a few months students turn into observant clock watchers.

Digital clocks do not capture this passage of time as well as analog clocks do. Watching the numbers change on the face of the digital clock does not give us the sense or passage of time, when 60 minutes turn to 1 hour. The visual experience of looking at an analog clock and processing the concept of coordinated movement of big and little hands are not shown on a digital clock.

Telling Time on an Analog Clock Develops Skills We Use Later

Specific hand positions on an analog clock equate to a particular time of day. Children learn to match numbers and hours to various times in the day, helping to identify what elapsed time is. This opens the door for several other skills as well as visualization.

The numbers on the face of analog clocks represent two different numbers simultaneously (for example, the number 12 represents itself and represents 60 minutes) - imaginative and roleplaying elements can be applied here to make learning fun: each number have a secret identify: the number 4 is 20, the number 7 is 35, and that identity is only revealed when the big hand is on the number - a game children will later remember when learning algebra. Each algebraic variable is a double agent in an "overcoat," the real identity comes out when you solve the equation. Creating a double layer paper plate clock and the two hands and plates put together with a paper fastener are creative projects we have been to show this concept.

Analog clocks also open the door to learning quarters, halves, days, weeks, etc. Converting the concept of a quarter, to a half hour, to 30 minutes is mental exercise that digital numbers may not provide to young learners.

As stated by The Guardian, "Reading an analog clock is a cognitive workout, requiring attribution of different values to the same 12 symbols, interpreted on three parallel planes - seconds, minutes, hours. Only with practice does this awesome mental feat come to feel easy."

Analog Clocks Can Help Us Think Musically

The ticking of an analog clock not only represents the passage of time, but also sets the speed for the passage of music, which is referred to as the tempo. Students who understand the tempo (or beats per minute), can then learn complex rhythm. Music combined with movement leads to dancing, encouraging the synchronization of moves with the tempos as they change from song to song.

Time is Related to Earth's Position in Space

The clockwise -counter clockwise movement brings up the question, "Why do clocks move left to right, the clockwise direction?" The explanation comes from the motion of the Earth relative to the Sun. Before mechanical clocks, it was observed that the Sun was highest in the sky at noon. Mechanical clocks used on the Northern Hemisphere were designed to follow the Sun's motion from left to right, the clockwise direction. All simple machines manuals reference this "clockwise rotation," and the motion is also used in subjects that include trigonometry and electricity.

While digital technology is practical and present, analog clocks provide us with a lot more than just what time it is. By continuing to educate children on how to read these clocks, they will develop valuable life skills as well as better understand our place in the universe.

Eva Szillery is a mathematician, received her Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary, she taught college courses in mathematics for engineering students. In 1998, Szillery began working with Professor Seymour Papert, a 40-year MIT Professor and Special Adviser for the Governor's Maine Technology Initiative. Szillery was hired to design the problem-solving component of the Maine Technology Initiative and with this "develop a generation of thinkers through problem-solving." In 2002, stemming from a suggestion made by Papert, she founded the MMSETS Program, a correspondence problem-solving program, and various outreach enrichment programs which include: modular origami, teacher in-service programs, and even programs for very young children and their parents. The program has been running successfully since 2002.

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The New "Cursive Debate," Should Children Still Learn to Read Analog Clocks?

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Peter and Maria 3, who don't yet understand the concept of numerals, are told that "When the big hand is on this line, it will be story time." Sam, 7-years-old, is putting a half-eaten sandwich in his lunch bag and asks, "I am done with my lunch, may I go out and play?"