Bandwidth Depletion and Recovery in COVID-19 Remote Learning

Join the NC State Office of Faculty Development for a webinar that will feature Cia Verschelden, author of Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization. For the webinar, Verschelden will discuss Bandwidth Depletion and Recovery in COVID-19 Remote Learning. The webinar will be offered twice.
Each of us has a finite amount of mental bandwidth — attentional resources — for all the tasks in our lives. The realities of this public health crisis distract all of us and threaten our ability to concentrate our cognitive resources on school and work. These are uncertain times and uncertainty is a huge bandwidth stealer.
To help students recover a bit of bandwidth for learning, we need to acknowledge that the regular learning challenges that were already unequal are now even more so. When students are fearful and uncertain, the bandwidth available for learning is severely limited. In this webinar, we will discuss several strategies that can be used in classrooms and by the university in support of students to increase certainty and help students recover bandwidth.