It took a phone ban for some teachers to realize kids don’t know how to read a clock.

Just like writing cursive, it seems that reading an old-school analog clock is the sort of skill that has fallen by the wayside in our smartphone age. That lapse was revealed when NYC public schools ...

NYC teachers discover teens can’t read clocks after school cellphone ban

They just forgot that skill because they never used it, because they always pulled out their phone,” said Cheyenne Francis, ...
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NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks

Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones revealed that many ...
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New York City Students Struggle With Reading Analog Clocks Amid Cellphone Ban in Schools

NYC's cellphone ban in schools has led to the unexpected issue of students struggling to read analog clocks, as they rely heavily on digital timekeeping. Despite attempts to curb device use, students ...
IEEE

Have Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) Really Learned to Tell the Time on Analog Clocks?

Multimodal Large Language Models which can answer complex questions on an image struggle to tell the time on analog clocks. Reading the time on an analog clock requires identifying the hands, their ...