How to Help Communties Through Service Learning

Via TED

Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H Design, moved to rural Bertie County, North Carolina to help create a service based learning course for the local high school. Service learning provides students with the opportunity to apply course knowledge to real life though hands-on experience. Pilloton's course teaches principles of design and puts these skills to use through community projects. For one project, students created a "Learning Landscape" that combines physical activity and math. The class researches the needs of the community before building and constructs projects with users in mind. We have written about service learning before here.