Moving Beyond The COVID Classroom: A Study of How Mobile Technology is Used for Field Data Gathering and a Changing Pedagogical Framework

Abstract

The COVID lockdown period is fast becoming a distant memory, but while we were experiencing how to cope with teaching outside the physical classroom and indeed furthering our own research did present a way of adapting and discovering new processes. These new processes led to working remotely within our own individual bubbles and discovering how to cope with this new world. Using a research project of documenting the phenomenon of beach cusps this paper will consider how mobile technology is used in the field for gathering data and how the findings can be incorporated into the teaching curriculum which can lead to new artistic artworks created from these findings. The artistic pieces created from the field data using mobile technology can be expressed within the artistic community by giving credibility to the technology and can give further dialogue to the connection of place and the changing methods within the tertiary education sector.