In this project our teachers split us into groups of four to five, and told us that we were going to design a new school campus for Animas high school. At first it seemed that we were just going to through some things on a piece of paper and say look at our design, but no our teachers had something else in mind for us to do. Instead of just designing a school then being done we first went around and talked to teachers students and other users of our school and asked them things about the type of school that they would like. After gathering all this we made a prototype and made a few after that and got feedback on all of them. Once we had all of this feedback we started on our final product a whole campus design and a shared space design, but even these where a prototype of our real end product. After we organized our end product prototypes on a poster and got feedback on them we took the feedback and finalized them and professionally printed them out to look at and give to the board of directors.
The thing that I learned the most in this project was in my opinion budgeting and how to find out what is needed to build a building. The reason I say this is because I feel like I had the most growth and personal learning in this area.My reasoning behind this is at first I didn’t know at all what I was doing, but because of that I needed to learn how to budget and how to problem solve on finding out the price of certain materials. Because sometimes it is hard to find the exact price for things. I grew throughout the process becoming more and more adept at finding the things I need figuring out the language that google speaks to find things.
At the beginning of the project I didn’t help to much because I was getting distracted a lot, and not totally interested in what we were doing because I am not very good with writing or care for it to much because I am dyslexic and it makes it really tough for me to express myself in that way. Once we started finalizing our product though I found that I was good at finding out how much things would cost or budgeting like I stated in the last paragraph. Overall I would say my helpfulness and contribution in this project wasn't quite what I would have liked it to be but I think I learned many things because of it.
I believe that it is important for students to have a voice in what their campus looks. Because they have to be in it all day long and sitting for most of that time so in my opinion I think it is important for students to have a say in it but I believe that teachers should have a big saying too because they also have be in the school all day and sometimes longer teaching.
The thing that I learned the most in this project was in my opinion budgeting and how to find out what is needed to build a building. The reason I say this is because I feel like I had the most growth and personal learning in this area.My reasoning behind this is at first I didn’t know at all what I was doing, but because of that I needed to learn how to budget and how to problem solve on finding out the price of certain materials. Because sometimes it is hard to find the exact price for things. I grew throughout the process becoming more and more adept at finding the things I need figuring out the language that google speaks to find things.
At the beginning of the project I didn’t help to much because I was getting distracted a lot, and not totally interested in what we were doing because I am not very good with writing or care for it to much because I am dyslexic and it makes it really tough for me to express myself in that way. Once we started finalizing our product though I found that I was good at finding out how much things would cost or budgeting like I stated in the last paragraph. Overall I would say my helpfulness and contribution in this project wasn't quite what I would have liked it to be but I think I learned many things because of it.
I believe that it is important for students to have a voice in what their campus looks. Because they have to be in it all day long and sitting for most of that time so in my opinion I think it is important for students to have a say in it but I believe that teachers should have a big saying too because they also have be in the school all day and sometimes longer teaching.