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P: The principles of blended learning are
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4.1
largely in place now: a large part of the
I don’t know what I’d do without the software
I = Interviewer H = Hanya
material is still learned synchronously,
and that worries me a bit. And I do see
J = Jeffrey
through what we call ‘contact moments,’
the ethical issues people have with police
i.e. in class, while much of the preparation I: Welcome to the programme. Today
like me using facial recognition tools to
and processing happens asynchronously, our guests are the sociologists Hanya
identify suspects. But, at the end of the day,
essentially freeing up space for higher-
Richardson and Jeffery Walsh, who study
it’s just another tool. It might be less time
quality interaction during those contact
friendship. Hanya, friendships too easily fall
consuming to track people down, but the
moments. The exact ratio is dynamic,
by the wayside in adulthood, don’t they?
technology is susceptible to error and doesn’t
however. There are didactic factors to
replace traditional police work. It’s not as if H: They do indeed. In the research for our
consider but also practical ones like
book, we found that people make the most
computers are solving crimes in seconds all
available technology, the intensity of
friends between the ages of fifteen and
by themselves. People who think that have
the course, predetermined student
twenty-five, and then, try as we might to
watched too much TV. I will say, however, that
competencies and needs, and so on.
keep up with people, our friendship circles
police themselves have not been immune to
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this sort of wishful thinking, which is one of shrink as we move into adulthood. We
W: It’s not hard to see why the electronic become engrossed in our careers. We get
the reasons why we demanded access to the
spreadsheet has been such a hit. Imagine married, have kids. We might even end up
software and quickly embraced it.
relocating for one reason or another. In our
writing down individual numbers by hand
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daily lives, we’re still surrounded by people,
in rows and columns across the double
This year we took the plunge and installed of course, but they are in the same position
spread of an A2 ledger. The electronic
crop sensors around the farm. The goal
spreadsheet has made it infinitely easier to as ourselves – busy, short on energy and
is to decrease leaching and runoff into
manipulate data, in the process wiping out free time.
groundwater, but the technology should
millions of jobs for desk clerks and giving
J: We have fewer friends as adults, but not
create other knock-on effects. The sensors
birth to the world of modern finance. The
usually by choice. One study found that
can communicate information about the
problem is, though, that we have become the average adult won’t have made a new
level of moisture present at certain depths
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so enchanted with spreadsheets, they’ve friend in the last five years, even though
in the soil, which means I can save time
become a curse. about half would have liked to.
and money by making adjustments to my
For example, back at my first data analyst H: And so the question is, how can we fill
irrigation systems on the spot from a phone
gig, I was tasked with creating a tool to this friendship gap? It’s a bit of an uphill
or computer instead of driving to each field.
track and analyse the performance of my
battle, as we all know. It can take between
In theory, anyway. To be honest, the whole
company’s suppliers. A spreadsheet was
forty and sixty hours to develop a casual
system is still a bit temperamental, and the
the natural choice, but once the team
friendship. But of course it’s also possible
farm is seriously lacking when it comes to
started using the file in their daily workflow to spend hundreds and hundreds of hours
connectivity infrastructure, but I’m sure these
it quickly became bloated and burdensome with someone and think of them as just a
are just bumps in the road.
to use. Sound familiar? But that’s not all: workmate or an acquaintance.
as the operations got more complex, with
Speaker 5 I: So, what else can be done to turn these
formulas referencing other formulas –
everyday encounters into real friendships?
Like most of my patients, I was wary of virtual
sometimes incorrectly – it got harder to
visits at the outset. I saw it as yet another J: Most of us, we assume friends will just
trace back how some calculations were
sort of fall into our lives, and it’s not entirely
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unreasonable that we should make this
bottom line that would come at the expense
there are programming languages that
of patient care, which it undoubtedly was, assumption, because it fits with the way
allow for a more systematic manner of
but with time – what do you know? – I’ve many of the friendships developed when
performing analytics, making it much
come to embrace it. Talking to people on a we were younger. Back then, we were
easier to troubleshoot, and that data can
stuck in the same building with lots of
computer has obvious limitations, but if your
be stored more sustainably through SQL
ailment is minor, say a fever, cough or cold, potential friends, and it was as simple as
databases, where it can be queried in a
I can offer decent care from a distance. And going through shared experiences. As
centralised location.
adults, we have to put ourselves out there a
virtual visits are so much more convenient
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for underprivileged patients, who sometimes bit more.
don’t have access to transport or are unable M: Lobsters have developed a remarkable
H: And it can’t be a one-off thing. It’s not
way of seeing the world. Their eyes are
to leave their homes. Plus, I like how quickly I
enough to go to just the one networking
mounted on long stalks and each eyeball
can check in with my patients, just to see how meeting. Better to look for a professional
is made up of thousands of tapered square
they’re getting on. development group. Don’t go to a book
tubes. Unlike a human eye, which relies
lecture; look for a book club.
3.3
on ‘refraction’ or the bending of light, a
I: What about those of us who find it hard to
lobster’s eye reflects tiny amounts of light
I = Interviewer P = Professor relax and be ourselves around people who
from a wide viewing area and then focuses
we don’t know?
W = Woman M = Man
them into a single image. Outside of their
J: That’s very common, and it’s often due
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natural habitat, lobsters are effectively
to a cognitive bias known as the ‘liking
I: Professor Yavuz, what first attracted you to blind, but in the dark murky water at the
gap.’ This describes people’s tendency to
blended learning?
bottom of the sea they can spot predators
underestimate the degree to which they
P: Well, going back nearly 20 years, I was without so much as moving their heads.
are liked by strangers they interact with.
working as an associate lecturer, teaching
What does all this have to do with space,
H: Like it or not, to make new friends, we
on a module designed to inspire creative
you might be wondering? Well, scientists
simply have to get used to those small
entrepreneurship, and I had an unusual have copied the design of the crustacean’s
bouts of anxiety that come from engaging
group – or at least that’s what I thought eye to create a new type of telescope that
with new people. All too often we resort to
at the time. Attendance at lectures was
can monitor a wider section of the sky.
overt or covert avoidance strategies, like
dreadful but the students would turn in With this brilliantly innovative technology,
looking at our phone or playing with the
brilliant work and respond instantly to any
still in the works, scientists aim to detect
host’s pet. We ought not to let ourselves fall
email I sent. This was a real ‘aha moment’
X-rays emitted by marvellously rare events
into this common trap. By trying to protect
for me. These days, emerging talent has
in the cosmos – the sort of fleeting,
ourselves from rejection, by limiting our
different expectations, but we’re still trying hard-to-capture energy unleashed when
eagerness or enthusiasm, we only make
to lure students into traditionally structured neutron stars or black holes collide. These
the chances of rejection more likely. Other
courses because it’s more effective for
are hard to find because we don’t know
people, after all, are just as afraid of getting
our institutions. This experience made
their location in advance. But a lobster’s
the brush off as we are.
me think outside the box and consider
eye telescope, whose ‘eye’ is curved and
I: So let’s say you meet someone you really
what parts of the course might work better dotted with tiny tubes, could be able to
click with. What then?
online. pick up X-rays coming from a wide variety
H: Here also a bit of courage can pay
I: Is it hard to get the balance right? of angles. Who would have ever thought a
dividends. We sometimes get too caught
lobster would help us see into space?
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