Instructor: Michelle Garcia Winner
Q&A Moderator: Dr. Pamela Crooke
This course explores:
Factors that have increasingly impacted concentration and focus in over the past decades
Strategies found and defined in the acronym: F.O.C.U.S
The relationship between focus and executive functioning
1.5 hours toward CE credit, available for select professionals.
For any special accommodations please email us.
Concentration & Focus Disruption in the Digital Age & What to Do About It
How Digital Technology Impacts Our Focus and Concentration and What We Can Do About It
The way most of us concentrate and focus our attention on things that matter has undergone a dramatic disruption in the past two decades. While what we need to do can be enhanced by technology, there are potentially even more digital factors that get in the way of meeting one’s academic, employment, and/or social goals. In this course, we will use a developmental lens as we introduce strategies to help students problem solve and self-evaluate how they set goals, make plans, and stay on task to foster executive functioning, while simultaneously and constantly being distracted by digital tools such as screens, phones, and watches. We’ll also take a deeper look at the latest research related to concentration and focus.