Week 3- Learning Log

What?

In class today we learned about the human brain. The brain is made up of 12 crucial parts: frontal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe, hippocampus, amygdala, brain stem, cerebellum, broca’s area, wernicks and corpus collosum. Each of those parts are crucial in our brain. The development of the brain occurs back to front and is not fully developed until 25-35.
Each part has neurons that have many features. The dendrites are branchlike structures that receive information. The myelin sheath acts as the insulator and holds in the information. The myelin is a fatty substance that speeds up neural transmitter. The axon is a transmitter that carries information to other neurons.
When pregnant it is very important to not diet. Your body needs all the nutrients and vitamins it can get. Especially when you are having a baby develop inside you, the baby will need a lot of nutrients. Exercising is also very important to always do. Exercising optimizes your learning and gives you more energy to be able to go through out the day.

So What?

This topic is very important on the brain. This will give us many answers to the different problems and issues we will see when we are teachers. There are so many disorders that all tie in with the brain: autism, ADHD, ADD and many other disorders. As teachers if we have students with those disorders we are better at understanding why they have this disorder. If we know how the brain works we will also understand how different people learn and how accidents may affect a students learning. This will help us in being a better teacher.
It is also very important to know why you should eat healthy and get regular exercise. Both of those relate directly to your learning and how you can get the most out of what you learn.

Now What?

It is important to teach children about why we should exercise and eat healthy. And how this will help us to optimize our learning. After teaching them that I will teach them the different parts of the human brain. This is important for the students to learn so that they know how their brain works and why they might act the different ways they do. Teaching about the brain will help the other students understand why certain students might act a certain way.
I still need to learn more in depth about the human brain. I need to make sure I understand each part clearly and know what each of their functions are and what disorders might come if that area is damaged.