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Introduction To Bandwidth Recovery
Due to social phenomena like poverty, racism, classism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia, and other 'differentisms', many students arrive at college with depleted cognitive capacity for learning. Teachers can use strategies in our classrooms to help them recover.
This course has been developed with Cia Verschelden from the American Association of Colleges and Universities, USA, and it includes short videos, activities, and discussion prompts. It is part of a series on Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources. When completed you will:
- Understand the concept of bandwidth – cognitive capacity – and the ways in which it is depleted by poverty, racism, classism, ableism, homophobia, and other ‘differentisms.’
- Understand that the social realities of students in certain groups can result in their arriving to college/university with limited bandwidth for learning.
- Realise that there are classroom strategies that can help students recover and learn about a few of them.
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