BBC – Sean Coughlan
“Do young people really struggle with traditional analogue clocks with hands? That’s the claim in a debate between teachers – with suggestions that digital clocks are being installed in exam halls for teenagers. It follows a report in the Times Educational Supplement of a conference being told that pupils needed a digital clock to be able to tell the time. Malcolm Trobe, of the ASCL head teachers’ union, said young people were much more used to using digital clocks.” (more)