Moving students fluidly between digital and physical dimensions: the impact of tutor intervention.

The session will present the ‘My Suitcase’ Garment Research Resource the resources intention is to engage students and move them beyond the ‘attentional’ gate of surface learning to guide students to greater depth of investigation, research and analysis of objects. The resource is intended to be an innovative link between the digital based investigation and physical object investigation. It is intended to make a richly layered resource bringing together product representation with other information, signposting and pinpointing key product related items that can be interacted with intuitively.
Research findings will be discussed focusing on understanding the impact of tutor intervention points and introduces the learning pendulum (Evans,C., Allen,C. 2012).

‘ We should not be afraid of the students’ digital wisdom but if we co-work with them as their preference is for collaboration and co-working, then we can guide and develop their enquiring mind as they can digitally educate us the tutor.’ (Evans,C., Allen,C. 2012)