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Summary:
The spinal cord is one of the most important, if not the most important organ. It sends information and instructions to and from the brain and the body. Without it, the entire body and the brain is virtually useless since the brain and body can no longer communicate with each other. If you split or damage a part of the spinal cord, anything below the damaged area will no longer function temporarily or permanently depending on how severe the damage is. Once damaged badly enough, the spinal cord cannot heal itself the right way. The nerves that were damaged do not know where to heal to, so instead of the damaged nerve re-connecting to a nerve that it split off of, it connects to the wrong nerve. Since the spinal cord is the most important organ in the body, it must need more protection and should have the ability to heal itself.
Backward Looking - Have you done a similar kind of work in the past (earlier in the year or in a previous grade; in school or out of school)?:
Yes, I have done a similar assignment to this project which I did in 5th grade. In this assignment I was supposed to write in my blog the organs about a particular body system, the function, how to simulate the function of that body system based on activities we did, how to keep it healthy, and 5 interesting facts (or fun facts) about that body system. The body systems that I wrote about were the Nervous, Skeletal, Muscular, Digestive, Urinary, Cardiovascular, and Respiratory System. Doing this assignment gave me prior knowledge to help me with this project by telling me what each body system is composed of and how they work.
Inward Looking - How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work?:
I believe that the Human Body 2.0 Project for me went fairly good. The reason why I think that way is because the I thought that the Written Argument and Design Brief went well since we gave as much information as we could give in detail and the rationale of why we wanted to redesign the spine that way. However I personally can't feel the same way for the presentation. I feel like that the presentation was rushed and unpracticed. It did contain almost all the information for our re-design except for the counter argument and rebuttal, but I still think the presentation could have been better.
Outward Looking - Did you do your work the way other people did theirs? In what ways did you do it differently? In what ways was your work or process similar?:
When I observed other people's presentations, some were similar and some were different but mostly similar. Similar to my group, many people proposed their re-design of their body system through slide presentations. When I saw other presentations, I noticed that some groups did their presentations in a different way. Some people used animations or videos to show their re-design. One group that was re-designing the digestive system even added skits and a video to their slide to show what the problem with their original design was, their re-design, and the simulation.
Forward Looking - What would you change if you had a chance to do this piece over again?
If I were to do this piece over again, there are two things that I would change about this project. The two things that I would change about this project is the idea of how to heal the spine and the overall presentation (since as said before, i'm not necessarily proud of it). To heal the spine, rather than having axons stretch to protect the nerves as said in our presentation, I would have DNA to contain instructions for each nerve cell. When a spine is damaged, DNA should tell the damaged nerve cells what specific nerve to connect to when healing. Regarding our presentation, I would change the presentation to a video since a video is easily changeable compared to a live presentation and I would add the problem with the re-design of our spine and how we are going to fix that.
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