Analysis on "Listening to Music Helps Students Be More Productive In The Classroom"

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         In the Aricle Listening to Music Helps Students Be More Productive in The Classroom, informs the readers on how and why music helps students while in the classroom. Whether it be middle schoolers, high schoolers, college students, and employees. This article gives alot of statistics about the productivity and job satisfaction of the workers, but doesn't give us where we got the information, so I don't know if it is reliable or not. Some examples of the statistics used in the article is that one-third (32%) of 1,613 U.S. employees said that they listen to music while working through and use of an ipod, MP3, or similar device.
          Also, the writer of this article is a teacher so they fully understand how this impacts and affects the work methods and patterns of students. Becaue the writer is a teacher, I feel this is relyable because she is very familliar with this topic.

Link: http://www.teachersatrisk.com/2006/09/23/listening-to-music-helps-students-be-more-productive-in-the-classroom/

Analysis on "First Evidence That Musical Training Affects Brain Development In Young Children"

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        The article First Evidence That Musical Training Affects Brain Development In Young Children, informs the reader about what the positives that music has on developing the brain. In this Article, the authors of this article were all doctors, scientists and professors such as Dr. Laurel Trainor (professor at McMaster University), Dr. Takako Fujioka (Scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute), and others. This shows that this article has credibility and is reliable. For example it talks about an experiment that was tested to see about how music affects memory.  So children who took a memory test after spending a year in a music class scored a lot higher than those students who didn't take the class.
         With the results, Prof. Trainor was not surprised with the data and Dr. Fujioka added ," Previous work has shown assignment to musical training is associated with improvements in IQ in young children." So it is safe to say that this article is pretty much reliable but doesn't really show any other side to the argument besides the side that they experimented. So it can be bias. Overall this article is credible.

Link:    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060920093024.htm

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         For school, I have been looking into what music does to the brain and I thought to myself, What age is the most crucial for the brain to be influenced? From my research, it shows that if elder people use music therapy if they have dementia or Alzheimer's, it drastically helps the brain. Also I found that music being exposed to children is very important to the development of the brain.
         So it is obvious that either age you expose your brain to music, it effects it positively. Although Alzheimer's and dementia is a problem where the brain's use is drastically decreasing then it shuts down. Music Therapy helps to boost the usage of the brain before the brain starts to disintegrates.
         Also Music accesses a special part the brain, so it is very important for undeveloped brains to get music influence in developing this portion.