Re: [cobalt-users] The end of an era - or - what a week to go on Holiday!!

[Jeff <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 07:19 am, Paul Shuttleworth wrote:

> Cobalt User List ..... Mostly Harmless!

And what about digital watches?  They're subtle danger is they teach 
time but not time relationships.

Young children (up until about age five) do not have a time "sense"; 
they have to compare it to something.  When a child is three and four, 
it's not bedtime until s/he's actually in bed; time is related to 
place.  If you have kids, you've probably seen this in action.

As the child get's older, an analog clock or watch teaches him/her to be 
more like Einstein <smile> and think of time as related to distance.  
That makes sense to us as we become adults; we get a "feeling" for how 
long it takes the hands to traverse the distance.

That serves us well in our adult life, as time does relate to distance 
for most of us.  We have a one mile trip to take, so we must leave five 
minutes early, for example.

Once we've learned that, we can use a digital timepieces and still stay 
"on time", but if we never use analog timepieces it's more likely we'll 
be chronically late in our lives.

(The above comes from my own, and definitely flawed, non-clinical, 
realworld research, but I stand by it <smile>.)

Jeff, M.Ed, Developmental Psychology
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 -- Zeffie, Wed, 5 May 2004 01:05:06 -0400
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