[adfm]

I’ve noticed some of these kids can’t tell time on analog clocks nor read cursive handwriting.

[brightball]

Analog clocks are interesting in that they exercise your brain when you read them. You have to do calculation (what is the number system for each hand), spatial reasoning (where is each hand) and categorization (what is each hand).

There’s a program called Arrowsmith that has a summer program called the Cognitive Intensive Program. It’s basically 3-4 hours a day of speed reading analog clock for 7 weeks. You start out at 2 handed and work up to 8 handed.

Changed my son’s life. He was a completely different student afterwards, for the better.

[msteffen]

This one? https://www.arrowsmith.ca/cip-arrowsmith-school

[komali2]

What information does an 8 handed clock convey?

[1718627440]

> Analog clocks are interesting in that they exercise your brain when you read them. You have to do calculation

Interesting, for me it is the opposite. With a digital clock I need to do a division/comparison to know how much part of the day/hour has already passed. With an analog clock I can read a proportion directly.

[CGamesPlay]

Hours, minutes, seconds, degrees, arcminutes, arcseconds... I could try to read 6, but honestly I doubt I'd even be able to see the arcseconds hand, it would be moving so quickly.

[refibrillator]

This is hilarious, I don’t even want to know if it’s legit.

[Telaneo]

I can read analogue clocks only because I was taught in school, and prefer digital ones for all use cases I have myself (other than maybe decorative?), and even when I do read an analogue clock face, I convert that to digital time in my head before I can properly parse it, so I have a hard time blaming them. There aren't many analogue clock faces I need to read in my life, and there are probably even less in theirs. The last time I strictly needed to be able to read one was, funnily enough, teaching kids how to read one.

[inimino]

> I convert that to digital time in my head

What? They are the same thing.

[kevmo314]

Aside from signatures, which don't need to be read, I don't remember the last time I've seen cursive outside of an elementary school.

[brightball]

Something really cool about reading the Declaration of Independence.

[lucyjojo]

you don't write. people don't write in cursive around you?

[macintux]

~25 years ago I decided to take the LSAT. At the time, there was an essay component that was required to be conducted in cursive.

I basically had to teach myself all over again. Not much fun.

[ls612]

I never stopped writing in cursive but then again I don’t write much by hand anymore.

[squigz]

These aren't really comparable. Cursive handwriting varies considerably between people. One person's might be very clear, another might be impossible to discern.

[bigyabai]

The way things are headed, you'll just point your phone at it and have it translated to plaintext in 3-5 years anyhow.

[amitav1]

This sort of thing is some of the weirdest pseudointellectualism I've seen. Most adults and seniors also can't tell where they are by the position of the stars, or write with a fountain pen, or use a sliderule, or read a sundial. Because now we have Google Maps, ballpoint pens, calculators, and analog clocks.

[1718627440]

> Most adults and seniors also can't tell where they are by the position of the stars, or write with a fountain pen, or use a sliderule, or read a sundial.

I maybe give you the stars, but all the others demand a "Citation needed".

[tssva]

What? Next you are going to tell me they can’t use an abacus or properly impress cuneiform into clay tablets.

[lm28469]

You should talk to teachers, lot of kids can't answer test questions because they don't even understand the words in the question... A growing proportion of kids are close to non functional, with multiple years of delay compared to previous generations.