New York's school smartphone ban is exposing a hidden cognitive problem among students, while Australia's social media ...

New York City schools report a surprising consequence of the smartphone ban: many students can't read traditional clocks.

As of a June 2025 EdWeek tracker, New York is one of 21 states, as well as Washington D.C., that have banned smartphones ...

And grandfather clocks, prized by some, but they tend to scare children, for many kid’s cartoons and stories seem to feature ...

As technology distracts, polarizes and automates, people are still finding refuge on analog islands in the digital sea.

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 ...

AT&T has started a slow but decisive countdown on the copper phone network that powered the original American landline, and ...

Anyone of a certain age knows that time, like some maniacal driver, accelerates as it passes,” writes columnist. “This year went by in a blink even though every ...

Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones revealed that many ...

They just forgot that skill because they never used it, because they always pulled out their phone,” said Cheyenne Francis, ...

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 ...

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 ...