New Media & New Literacies

  Full Code Medical Simulation: Acute Appendicitis             Full Code Medical Simulation is a digital platform designed to improve clinical decision-making for all healthcare professionals including registered nurses, emergency response crews, physicians and even pre-medical students. This digital tool incorporates gamification into various medical scenarios based on healthcare specialties and patient case-based simulations. Users have to move swiftly and make quick clinical decisions based on patient diagnoses and care situations. This game gives immediate feedback based on user performance and offers a comprehensive library that can be accessed by a subscription costing $12 a month for the full library. The platform has two free case-based scenarios within the inpatient specialty that are extremely common: acute appendicitis and a neurological situation. Full Code allows for nursing educators to blend classroom instructi...

  Online platforms and digital tools are changing K-12 education by shaping how students learn, how teachers instruct, and how families stay connected. Each year, individualized learning and content delivery is being transformed and integrated into curriculum. As both a community college educator and mother, digital technologies within K-12 education vastly impact my everyday life at home and work. Each digital tool and learning platform play a unique role in enhancing student accessibility, communication skills and learning outcomes within diverse populations. In this blog post, let’s dive into two commonly used digital technologies within K-12 education and special education: Google Classroom and Proloquo2Go. By analyzing their functions, impacts, and the necessary literacies required to navigate them, we can then better understand and apply their use.   Google Classroom Google Classroom is a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) that was launched in August of 2...

  Nursing Education with New Literacies through Gamification: Escape Room Implementation A topic that interests me as a nursing educator and what I am thinking about basing my final project on is the integration of escape rooms. This approach to active learning stands out to me because it fosters critical thinking, collaboration, and clinical decision-making in a dynamic and engaging format. Unlike traditional educational methods, escape rooms simulate realistic scenarios that require nursing students and practicing nurses to apply their knowledge and skills to reinforce essential content in a student-led, enjoyable way. At Alfred State College, escape rooms could be used in the nursing skills lab to evaluate skill performance and reinforce these key concepts in areas such as medication safety, patient prioritization, and emergency response protocols. For the medical-surgical nurses at Jones Memorial Hospital, these activities could be adapted for continuing education, competen...