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Little research has focused on the use of digital storytelling in graduate education to foster reflective thinking. Digital storytelling has the potential to provide new media pathways of literacy, learning, creativity, and reflexivity. This chapter explains how the digital story allowed nurse practitioners constructing a new identity as they evolve from a Registered Nurse role, to share introductions, reflections, and personal information while deconstructing and reconstructing their own culture and identity as a part of a self-identity assessment. Sharing narratives about their own lived experiences helped to facilitate self-awareness and identity formation while they explored the question-“Who am I becoming?” The research revealed several generic themes: (1) Process and Development; (2) Listening, Learning, and Sharing; (3) Insight into Self and Others; however, the unexpected themes related to classroom safety, disclosure, and the importance of deeper reflection as it relates to nurse practitioner clinical education created the most promising implications for educators. It is a team-building tool that blends narrative pedagogies, creativity, and technology to help students develop self-reflection skills. It provides opportunities to listen to stories, create stories, and practice active narrative-based learning that can bridge age, gender, and cultural gaps in both higher educational and professional health care settings.
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1. Digital Story and Autobiographical (20 Points) (Prerequisite Assignment) Do This Before Class Begins
The overall purpose of this exercise is to start thinking about ourselves and the future impact that others have had in our lives. It is a critical thinking exercise to welcome diversity and understand everyone has a story to tell and so we will start this class by using these stories to introduce each other. Most of the decisions that we make as nurses and nurse practitioners are based in part on our philosophies of what we believe is the larger purpose of our philosophies of what we believe works best, and our philosophies of what we generally believe is the “right” thing to do. Rarely, however, do we take the time to reflect upon who we are as a person. Prepare an autobiographical presentation describing your personal, nursing/professional background. Reflect on your life and your schooling experiences and analyze the roles diverse socioeconomic, ethnic, or linguistic contexts have had on your life. Explore your identity(s) and your positionality and the impact your background has on the way that you view the world. You may also want to include a discussion of your family, including the origins of your ancestors, and the impact your family and experiences has had on your attitudes and beliefs toward diversity, multiculturalism, teaching, and learning. How have your experiences and beliefs translated into your practices? How have your experiences and beliefs impacted your expectations of others in the health care settings? How has your own schooling experiences impacted your practice as a nurse and your desire to work as a nurse practitioner?
For this assignment, you may digitally tell your story via PowerPoint, imovie, movie-maker, or some other program, but I would like for it to contain pictures (your own or “found” pictures or a mixture) and be timed so that it is no more than three minute long. You may wish to use your paper as a “script” to be read in front of the class as your video plays or you may read and record your narration onto your video. The choice is yours. Do not plan to do a presentation where you will need to click through a PowerPoint presentation.
Helpful hints on preparing a digital story for educators can be found at: www.techlearning.com/printablearticle/8030
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Rasmor, M. (2016). Digital Storytelling in Nurse Practitioner Education: A Beginning of Reflective Clinical Practice. In: Brown, H., Sawyer, R., Norris, J. (eds) Forms of Practitioner Reflexivity. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52712-7_3
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