Quick write:

In your opinion based on everything we have read, watched and discussed about the teenage brain, how should teenagers be treated and why? I think that even though a teenagers brain is still developing until the age a 25, right is right and if your gonna commit a crime like murder and brutally killing someone they should be put in to jail just like everyone else the did heinous crimes.  

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In the article " A Brain Too Young for Good Judgement " Daniel Weinberger argued that Andy Williams the shooter from the Santana High School shooting said, No matter what the town or the school,if a gun is put in the control of the prefrontal cortex of a hurt and vengeful 15 year-old, and it is pointed at a human target, it will very likely go off. Scientists have shown that the pace of the biological refinements quickens considerably in late adolescence, as the brain makes a final maturational push to tackle the exigencies of independent adult life.

What scientists know for certain about the teenage brain?	How scientists interpret these facts?	What scientists still want to learn about the teenage brain?
Rates of death by injury between ages 15 to 19 are about six times that of the rate between ages 10 and 14. Rates of death by injury between ages 15 to 19 are about six times that of the rate between ages 10 and 14. The volume of gray matter which is where thought and memory take place peaks in early adolescence.	There are a lot of factors influencing the development of the teen brain: experience, biological changes, environment Controlling impulses and planning are among the last parts of the teen brain to mature. Scientists believe that the loss of synapses as a child matures is part of the process by which the brain becomes more efficient. Although genes play a role in the decline in synapses, animal research has shown that experience also shapes the decline. Synapses "exercised" by experience survive and are strengthened, while others are pruned away.	The significance of the adolescence period on lifelong mental health. Scientists are working to determine to what extent the changes in gray matter on brain scans during the teen years reflect growth and pruning of synapses.

Reflection:
A time that I took a risk and won is when I got pregnant and decided to have my baby. At first I didn't think it having my son was a risks but if you think about it anyone having a baby is a risk. There are so many risks that could happen when being pregnant and having a baby period, The rate of severe complications during and after delivery have also doubled in the last decade, according to a 2012 federal study. Near-misses, where a woman nearly dies, increased by 27 percent. I'm grateful that during my pregnancy and after my labor I was fine and my son was a health baby boy.

A time when I had took a risk and it turned out to be a bad risk was when I was I was younger and I went I bike riding with my cousin on dirt mountain and I ended up getting stuck on the top and almost falling to my death.  

Quick write:
I haven't had an experience where I had to re-learn how to do something, i could only imagine how difficult it would be if for example i was to break my right hand and have to write with my left hand.  

Quick write:How much of our brain do we actually use ?

"It turns out though, that we use virtually every part of the brain, and that [most of] the brain is active almost all the time," Gordon adds. "Let's put it this way: the brain represents three percent of the body's weight and uses 20 percent of the body's energy. 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/

Quickwrite: 
Your risk taking is to far when you realize the the risk your taking always end up being bad.



Article Summary:
The teenager brain usually strays more to the ventral striatum because the prefrontal cortex is still under development. So if you want to take a risk your brain will most-likely take the risk instead of thinking twice about if it would be a good or bad risk. The prefrontal cortex's ability to boss the brain around increases with age. There are two processes going on in the teen brain. One process involves the fibers connecting nerve cells. The other process is the strengthening of the synapses the docks between the nerve cells.

Quick write:
Learning outcome 4
Ideas 3
Writing convention 3
Effort 4

I feel like I in my post I answered all the questions


Lesson:
Good decisions are made with our hearts, not our brains. 
I think that you don't necessarily make good or bad decisions with your heart because sometimes your heart could stare you in the wrong directions and make you think that something is good for you but in reality it's really bad for you. Like for an example you could be in a very bad relationship with somebody and you stay with that person just because you love them but you know that they're not good for you and that you should leave them but instead you make a decision with your heart and stay.

• How much of our brain function are we born with and how much do we learn?

Brain development, or learning, is actually the process of creating, strengthening, and discarding connections among the neurons; these connections are called synapses. Synapses organize the brain by forming pathways that connect the parts of the brain governing everything we do—from breathing and sleeping to thinking and feeling. This is the essence of postnatal brain development, because at birth, very few synapses have been formed. The synapses present at birth are primarily those that govern our bodily functions such as heart rate, breathing, eating, and sleeping.

https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/issue_briefs/brain_development/how.cfm 

Re-intro:
My name is Zhane and welcome to my blog, I'm 19 years old and I'm a Senior in Crotona Academy, my favorite color is blue, during his course I hope to hope to learn more about how to strengthen my writing skills. You will learn more about me during this coarse so until then... 

Open Ending Question:

How does your brain know when to stop the percentage thats used?

Quick write: 
Bottled the emotions.. lost the bottle.

Quick write: A habit I would like create for myself is to actually go home and study after I get everything thing done. Instead of sitting on my phone on social network actually go in my bag and look over the work I do in school.

I have a habit that i really love to change of eating food fast, when I don't pay attention to what I'm eating I end up eating my food slower but when I'm looking directly at my plate I eat so fast. 

What time is it? Usually its late at night or dinner time.

Where are you? I'm at home.

Who else is around? My family.

 

 

I'm arguing that there should not be selective high schools for smart kids because how can you really tell if a student is fits in the "smart" category, every student is different. Every student learns differently. Putting "smart kids in there own school it mind give them a fixed mindset because they might think that they don't have to try hard to pass and end up failing. 

Quick Write:
I do not think that there should be selective schools for "smart kids" because some kids can put a lot of effort in something and still not make the cut but every body's different. Everybody learns differently, some kids could be smart in one area or one subject in school may not be so smart in another. Kids in school should be able to teach each other and learn from each other to make one another excel so everyone can be one same level.

Quick write:
the best thing ever invented was telephones, I tell this because if the telephone were not invented then people would still be writing letters to communicate with people, another reason I believe this because if they didn't invent telephones then they would have never invented cell phones.  

Quick write:
I think we are all born with growth mindsets because when your a baby your mind is like a sponge and you learn more as you get older especially kids you will keep trying to do something until they succeed. when children learn how to crawl and how to sit up even a simple as a smile they have a growth mindset.

Final thought:
I think that teachers can talk to students and really make there student comfortable with them to push them and make them believe that they can do nothing they set there minds to do.

Quick write:
The Mindset Quiz says that I agreed with 0 fixed mindset statements and I agreed with 8 growth mindsets statements, I have a mostly a growth mindset.

Grit !

 A time when i failed in school is when i failed all my classes because I wasn't coming to school like I should have been. I felt like giving up, like I was never going to graduate, like my back was against the wall. But I decided to come back to school and push harder. I decided to become to person I wanna be and not the person I could have been.

1. Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can't change very much. - Disagree
2. You can learn new things, but you can't really change how intelligent you are. - Disagree
3. No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit. - Agree
4. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are. - Agree

1. You are a certain kind of person, and there is not much that can be done to really change that. - Disagree
2. No matter what kind of person you are, you can always change substantially. - Agree
3. You can do things differently, but the important parts of who you are can't really be changed. - Agree
4. You can always change basic things about the kind of person you are. - Agree


I believe I do have grit, I have courage and ambition to do before once I have failed in anything I do.