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I agreed with the article "This is Your Brain", because it makes so much sense when compare  with the reality of the  early childhood classroom, and my experiences. I see how children interact with music, and connect it with learning. And it is just magical. Even with both articles stating that there is not enough research yet on the influences of music on the brain. I  am inclined more towards this article because it has a more open approach toward the influence of music in learning. I have seen children develop language with music, relax with music, connect with their peers through music, express their emotions with music, memorize content, learn patterns, connect with their culture, and so much more.          Yaluz Shuaib

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I agreed with the article "This is Your Brain", because it makes so much sense when compare  with the reality of the  early childhood classroom, and my experiences. I see how children interact with music, and connect it with learning. And it is just magical. Even with both articles stating that there is not enough research yet on the influences of music on the brain. I  am inclined more towards this article because it has a more open approach toward the influence of music in learning. I have seen children develop language with music, relax with music, connect with their peers through music, express their emotions with music, memorize content, learn patterns, connect with their culture, and so much more.          Yaluz Shuaib

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I agreed with the article "This is Your Brain", because it makes so much sense when compare ed with the reality of the  early childhood classroom, and my experiences. I see how children interact with music, and connect it with learning. And it is just magical. Even with both articles stating that there is not enough research yet on the influences of music on the brain. I  am inclined more towards this article because it has a more open approach toward the influence of music in learning. I have seen children develop language with music, relax with music, connect with their peers through music, express their emotions with music, memorize content, learn patterns, connect with their culture, and so much more.

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I agreed with the article "This is Your Brain", because it makes so much sense when compare ed with the reality of the  early childhood classroom, and my experiences. I see how children interact with music, and connect it with learning. And it is just magical. Even with both articles stating that there is not enough research yet on the influences of music on the brain. I  am inclined more towards this article because it has a more open approach toward the influence of music in learning. I have seen children develop language with music, relax with music, connect with their peers through music, express their emotions with music, memorize content, learn patterns, connect with their culture, and so much more.

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I believe there is a connection of music and the brain. Babies are exposed to language and verbal cues before birth. Music and language are coordinated because they both need timing, pitch and timbre. Brain wave and sound waves resemble each other and works together. their relaxation, concentration and concentration are all structured. It stimulates and rejuvenates.

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I agree with both of the articles. Introducing music to children at a young age is beneficial and improves their developmental skills. I always play music for my children in the classroom, and they enjoy it. Children learn more through music rather than words.I find it interesting how the author in Music and the Baby's Brain indicated listening to Mozart in a child's early stages will help college students and test scores. My 2-year-old nephew loves music and he remembers all the songs he learned.

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I do agree with both articles that music is very important in the development of infants and children. I do believe that children learn better with having the connection to music either at home or in a school environment. Also, children who are exposed to music learn better and it shows in their ability to learn new things.
Victorine Dasilma

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I agree that music is essential in a person's life, specifically younger children. Not only does it just improve your ears, but helps with speech. Music is important in every aspect of a child's life. Even as for me, when I read, I have to listen to music in order to read. Music is very important because not only does it help with speech and can also help kid's brain process language.

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I agree with both articles strongly. Music gives power to the students and I think of it as the students are a candle and they need something to help light them up and that is where music comes in. Instead of them having to listen to me alone, music adds more emphasis to what I am trying to teach. When teaching Spanish, I use a lot of songs as the key way to teach them their numbers, alphabet, etc. This helps so much because sometimes I bring my ukulele and the kids get so excited and I allow them to strum it while trying to say a word in Spanish or sing a song that comes to mind. Being able to connect sounds to words is what the power of music does. Music is a great way to bring students together as one. You can only imagine the amount of times my students are signing the alphabet in spanish together and confidently which warms my heart.

Sometimes when I go into the infant room, I start singing and automatically the babies face lights up and I feel more connected with them so I can only imagine the bond music brings between the mother and child.

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I do agree that music can play and important role in enabling young learners to acquire phonemic awareness.  As the second article mentioned, there is a close correlation between pitch, timing, and timbre found in music as in those found in speech.  Also exposing children to music helps them train their sense of hearing to sounds which are necessary when learning the sounds used that will allow them to access literary texts.  Music has a strong connection with how we process speech.  In addition, music helps students to recall and remember as well as to engage.  We can never forget the nursery songs we listened to as a child and many poems and chants. Although this a is relatively a new field as noted in article one, enough evidence has been obtained that shows how music helps light up both hemispheres of the brain those making connections that help children to learn and build on the processing of language.
Claudia P. Silva

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Music and the Baby's Brain- I agree with the article regarding fostering positive collaboration and partnerships with the parents as a primary strategy for implementation of musical experiences. Children's first learning experience is in their household.

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I agree with both the articles I believe music really does help in brain development. I think it is important to use music in classrooms and for kids to be exposed to music at a young age. In the article “Music and the Baby’s brain” mentions the importance of the mother talking to the baby even though the baby may not understand language yet, but just the mother’s voice and sounds coming from her help the baby’s brain to recognize language and their brain to develop. From the article “ This is your Brain on Music” music increases cognitive abilities and memory. It helps us with learning language. From my own experience, I listen to classical music when I am studying or writing a paper I noticed that it helps me focus on my work.

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Yes , I agree.I think music stimulate the neurons and, as result it help children with their cognitive and social emotional development.Music is a fun way to learn. Children express emotions through music .Music help children to retain information

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The readings were very informative and I agree with both. I think that introducing music at the early stages of life is essential. Being exposed to music before birth is beneficial for brain development. I have experienced this myself. My nephew who is only 3 months old enjoys listening to music because he was exposed to music when he was in the womb. He smiles every time we play music that he was previously exposed to when he was in the womb.

I also have worked with nonverbal children who would hum and make beats with their body. Music clearly has an impact on children’s development.

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1.  I cannot but agree with the article “Music and the Baby’s Brain”, it impressed me. I found out that babies have innate musical behaviors, and that they use music as meaningful communication in their earliest years of development.

I also was pleasantly surprised by the fact that full-term infants' performance in detection of melodic alterations appeared to be influenced by perceptual experience from six months up to birth. A study of premature babies in intensive care environments demonstrated that infants responded with differentiated changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration when listening to recordings of contrasting musical styles.

All these facts cannot but impress us, they just demonstrate to everyone that music plays an extremely important role in children’s development.

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Yes, i agree with this article. I agree with it because of my own experience with my children. When I was pregnant with my son I was not too religious and did listen to the Quran as much, however, my faith became stronger with my daughter and I listen to the Quran a lot. Now as they grow up I see that my daughter has a stronger connection with the Quran than my son. She loves to listen to the Quran and sometimes even falls asleep with it on.

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In the article "This Is Your Brain on Music" states, " Researchers found that kids who took music lessons for two years did not just get better at playing the trombone or violin; they found that playing music also helped kids' brain process language." I agree with this article because researchers have found that learning how to play an instrument can have many positive outcomes, such as it uses both sides of your brain, which supports strengthening memory. From my experience, I think listening to Spanish music when I was young really helped me understand the language more. I truly feel music is powerful. I also learned today that The Mozart effect emphasizes that playing Mozart stimulates brain development, improves IQ, and spurs creativity within children. As result, I think music not only has a big influence on our emotions but it affects neurotransmitters and how our brain process information.

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I agree that music some way or another is involved in brain development. The article," Music and the Baby's Brain", spoke about how children react to melodic at a very young age(six month in the utero). Children are aware directly or indirectly to sound. We see how babies create special bonds with their mother's way before being born just by listening to their voices, songs. This shows how infants can perceive some kind of melody or sound. Children are exposed at a young age to music. For my fifth birthday there is a recorded tape in where I am singing with such a passion my cultural native songs. I agree with the article when it spoke about the influence of culture. I believe that culturally, we are also shaped by music.