Reflections

Reflection by Merlyn Reyes 

During the realization of the project there were many important aspects involved, aspects that it is impossible to leave aside. I will begin by mentioning what I manage to rescue from the project, that is to say what I learned. One of the things that I enjoyed doing this project the most was the ability to learn about the complex and important functions that our brain performs, the way in which the two hemispheres that made up the brain, right and left work through a contralateral function, that is, each hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body. Likewise, the importance of how the investigations carried out on the brain has contributed to identify where language is located in the brain and what is the relationship between both. Undoubtedly, they have been key pieces.

As for what I liked about the project there are two aspects that I highlight, the first was to be able to do this work as a group, because it stimulates our creativity, increases motivation and decreases stress levels, allowing us to do a much better job than expected, as long as the ideas of each member of the group have been taken into account. The second was to make a work made up of all the didactic strategies learned throughout the whole term, since we had previously experienced what it was to make a semantic map, a PowerPoint presentation, a video, etc. And combining all of these works into a whole project was impressively wonderful. However, there was one aspect I did not like about this project. Undoubtedly doing this project in a face-to-face manner would have been a very nice experience, share in front of our classmates every idea would have given a total change to the project, but it is something that we cannot change because we are still facing a pandemic.

Referring to changes, the only one would be to be able to share each of our points of view on the topic assigned to our classmates and also with Mrs. Patricia, so that we can know each other’s doubts and do everything possible to clarify them. This project was very important and of great benefit to us, so I would like to finish this reflection by giving a suggestion, it will be only one because everything seemed to be very well organized and no problem presented at the time of working on this project. My only suggestion would be that each group choose the site they consider best to do their blog, as for many blogspot.com.  is a site that had not been used before and therefore it was a bit complex to adapt to it.

Reflection by Emilio Nuñez

We worked with the Chapter 10: Brain and language, I think that it is a very interesting topic, I never asked before which part of the brain allows us to talk and use correctly all the rules of speech and writing. In addition, the brain is, probably, the most complex organ of the body, nowadays there are a lot of things that we don’t know about it; everything about the brain has been so fascinating to me, and in this case, it was even more fascinating because involves the language development on the brain.

Reflection by Livia González

 I believe that as students we have a duty to do our assignments to be able to pass a class but despite those things we must recognize that work like this is what helps us better understand a topic, takes us to the limit of our thinking and creativity, With each detail that it takes we learn more, personally this topic interested me a lot because it talks about the brain and language, which many times we think is something simple that we speak and form words because it is our nature but we have no idea what is happening by our brain when forming a word, a sentence, producing it and finally speaking it, we have a powerful brain that we often underestimate because we do not believe we are capable.

Something very important that I learned and that I did not know is that the most frontal part is in charge of executive control, in this case, Broca's area controls the production of language.

But it is not only about the specialization of the brain, but about how those areas communicate with each other. In the case of language, this function is fulfilled by the Arched Fascicle that guides the information between the Broca and Wernicke areas. For this reason, in Broca's Aphasia the production of language is impaired, understanding in Wernicke's Aphasia and the Arch Fasciculus in Conduction Aphasia.

It seemed very important to know this about how language arias are classified in our brain, concepts that I had no idea.

The suggestions I would give for this project is that we can use our creativity more and not only be what the teacher asks if not, that a little more creativity be given, for example the design and be able to improve it.

Equally, it is a great opportunity for us as students to learn more and expand our knowledge.

Reflection by Jeferson Pavon 

In this second project I liked the topic that the teacher assigned us, It was a very interesting topic. I like all the things about the project, I learned too much about where is located  language and a little bit about the human brain. If I would add other activity for the project, a vocabulary about the unknown words found in the text that we read.