Criterion C - Demonstrating communication and social skills - Step 3

January 31 / 2018

Stage: c) taking action

Approaches to learning: Critical thinking skills because I was able to look back to my process during criterion c and consider consequences and choices I made.

Communication with experts and how their advice  informed the creation of your product/outcome

During the process of writing my book I spoke to one specialist in pediatrics, Dr. Javier Mejia, however I did not make anymore interviews because I believe they made no contribution whatsoever to my final product due to the fact the any doubts I could have regarding the human brain, I had no time to ask for an appointment and consult my doubts with an specialist, in my short timed case, Google was quicker and a far more approachable solution. 

Communication with your supervisor and how their feedback informed the completion of your personal project

During the process of my personal project I had 5 meetings with Lizbeth (my supervisor), the very first meeting took place the 30th of August in 2017, back then, I was still working on the old theme, meaning that whatever it is we discussed, it did not help me in the development of my final product about the brain. My second meeting with Lizbeth was on September 8th, that was the meeting in which I told her I no longer wanted my project to be about gout but about the human brain instead, she told me it would be a lot more fun to  create interactive games about the brain rather than writing a book, however I really wanted to write something, so here idea of the games was forgotten. My third meeting with Lizbeth was on October 4, in that meeting she just asked me to catch up as soon as possible. The fourth meeting with Lizbeth took place on November 8th, just like in the previous meeting, she took a look at may blog and congratulated me for being so organized, she asked me to hand in the criterion table as soon as possible. Finally, the 5th meeting took place before going on December vacations, in that meeting she advised me to further decorate my blog and what should be present in some entries in order for them to be complete.

How have you read a variety of sources for information on your personal project

During my project, I got to read and consult 65 sources in total, even though they should have been different types of sources I am sad to say only around 4 of them all were not Google. So in conclusion, even though most of my sources were online, they are all good and legitimate sources.

How have you made inferences and drawn conclusions

When talking about the human brain, it is impossible to know it all, so I obviously made conclusions based on some facts and pure logic provided by the different sources I got to consult. For example, in my book I wrote: "because if it weren't for its presence, some of our main human characteristics would be gone, and our "normal" behavior as we know it today, would be non existent" the past quote is an inference I made based on the information that was given to me about the temporal lobe.