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New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play (www.independent.co.uk)

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At least 31 states and the District of Columbia restrict cell phones in schools

New York City teachers say the state’s recently implemented cell phone ban in schools has showed that numerous students no longer know how to tell time on an old-fashioned clock.

“That's a major skill that they're not used to at all,” Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, told Gothamist of what she’s noticed after the ban, which went into effect in September.

Students in the city’s school system are meant to learn basic time-telling skills in the first and second grade, according to officials, though it appears children have fallen out of practice doing so in an increasingly digital world.

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[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Tbh I think teaching 6502 assembly would be a great idea. You can learn the basics of how computers work without having to deal with all the complexity of a computer from 2026.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It's better to use an AVR for that. 6502 was a ridiculous kludge for the sake of slightly improved code density.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

What is AVR?

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 1 points 1 hour ago

Is there a such thing as an intentionally simplified assembly language, perhaps one that targets a VM, for ease of development and learning purposes? Like the assembly equivalent of Lua, I guess.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

8 bit MCU series popularized by the Arduino a decade or two ago. Kind of obsolete now but still has some uses and attractions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_microcontrollers

[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah anything not too complex will work. We had to implement a PIC simulator in university, I thought that was a great exercise too.

Although 6502 actually was my first assembly language.