Student Name: Maria Gozdzikowski EDU 214 - Dream Home Reflection

Date: 11/05/2023

Portfolio Artifact Description: Dream Home - Using drawing tools to create a 2

dimensional layout
of a home

What you learned: My dream home project was hard for me. First, I am not an artist
and having to maneuver the tools was much easier this time. What was hard was
thinking about what I would want in a dream home. I decided I wanted a basic home
inside but what was really important was my garden and my back patio. Even though it
was hard making the lines even and straight, I did feel more confident with the tools and
what to choose in terms of line width and thickness , how to make windows and how to
create the doors. This was a great project, I loved dreaming about it and creating it.

ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for STUDENTS (NETS)•S

Addressed: 2.5.c Create Innovative Learning Environments
Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning
environments that engage and support learning. This was the standard that I felt was
pertinent to this assignment.

Application of Skills Learned for the Future:

How do you see the project fitting into different areas of the school curriculum if you
were to extend the activity to actually building bridges with students.

1. This was a great project. It involved great thinking skills. This is a project that
can fit in many areas of a school curriculum including math, measurement ,
building, creativity and computers.

What curricular areas of learning styles would be addressed if students were building
these bridges as 3-dimensional models?

2. The areas that would be addressed would be mathematics, measurement,

science, critical thinking , engagement, socialization skills, and creativity.

How can drawing and model building be used in your own classroom even if it is not a
bridge you are building?
 3. Putting ideas on paper before building or bringing it to life is a great activity for
students. It is engaging and a great brainstorming activity. It also would be helpful
in mathematics, art, science and social studies.

What else can be designed instead, but still cover the concepts of learning how to
manipulate drawing objects on screen?

I can think of my students drawing a model car, a school, their dream home, a town,
maybe a project on making a model train and how its mechanisms work, this could be a
hands-on learning style. It is such a fun and different learning style.