Project H uses the power of the design process to catalyze communities and public education from within.
We are a team of designers and builders engaging in our own backyards to improve the quality of life for all. Our six-tenet design process (There is no design without (critical) action; We design WITH, not FOR; We document, share and measure; We start locally and scale globally; We design systems, not stuff; We build) results in simple and effective design solutions that empower communities and build collective creative capital.
Our specific focus is the re-thinking of environments, products, experiences, and curricula for K-12 education institutions in the US, including design/build Studio H high school program in the Bertie County School District, North Carolina.
WE BELIEVE DESIGN CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.
TED Talks From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.
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R. Goldstein, and D. Pratt. Proceedings of the 25th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME25), 3, page 49--56. PO Box 9432, 3506 GK Utrecht, The Netherlands, Freudenthal Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Uthrect University, (July 2001)
F. Arzarello. the 24th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME), 1, page 23--38. Hiroshima, Japan, (2000)