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BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 days agoFor my son, that has downsydrome, analogs clocks made sense for him because he could see the time passing or time remaining to the hour, but digital requires abstract number concepts he struggled with. 15 or 45 didn’t really mean anything to him sizewise, they are both 2 digit numbers. So he would struggle to grasp the time passing or time left… And making things worse we count 1-99 before the next unit but clocks are 1-59. How much time before 6 when it’s 5:47? Becomes a math equation, but a glance on the clock is readily apparent.
wischi@programming.dev 3 days ago
Exactly. And that’s also true for young children. Reading digital clocks is exactly that… reading. It doesn’t mean you understand what it means or how to interpret it. Analog clocks however are a great tool at actually get a feeling for time.
I think the biggest issue judging by the comment section is that most Americans (at least it seems that way) are almost never exposed to analog clocks.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Anecdotally, I have seen many Americans aren’t exposed to a lot. Like pointing out countries outside of North America is tricky for a lot of them. There is systematic degradation of their education system, but also this culture of “we are the best, we don’t need nothing”