Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking
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About Course
What You will learn
- Define futures thinking and give examples of futures projects
- Collect and analyze signals of change
- Identify historical change in the past to predict new changes in the future
- Learn how to avoid future shock - and help others avoid it, too!
Course Curriculum / Content
Week 1: Welcome to the Future
1.1 Are you ready to learn how to think like a futurist?(video)
1.2 Take our 2-minute survey about the future
1.3 Welcome to the course! Meet your professor Jane McGonigal(video)
03:241.4 Give me some examples of futures thinking!(video)
1.5 What is Futures Thinking?
1.6 Meet some professional futurists(video)
1.7 Who Hires Futurists?
1.8 Introduce yourself!
Week1: What is futures thinking?
1.9 What is futures thinking?(video)
1.10 Mini-Masterclass: The Future Belongs to Everyone(video)
1.11 How to think like a futurist: The 5 key principles
1.12 What is futures thinking?
Week 1: When does the future start?
1.13 When does the future start?(video)
1.14 Why Companies Work With Futurists
1.15 When does the future start?
Week 1: What are the benefits of futures thinking?
1.16 What are the benefits of futures thinking?(video)
1.17 What are the seven benefits of futures thinking?
1.18 Who Owns Your Future?
Week 1: Example of a Futures Project: The Future of Food
1.19 Six Possible Futures of Food
1.20 Future of Food
Week 1: Choose Your Own Future
1.21 Choose your own future!(video)
1.22 Peer-graded Assignment: Choose your own future
Week 2: Signal of Change
2.1 Introduction to Signals(video)
2.2 Examples of Signals(video)
2.3 What’s a signal of change?
Week 2: More Examples of Signals
2.4 Five Minutes in the Future of Food(video)
2.5 Five Minutes in the Future of Economic Justice(video)
2.6 Future of Work in 2030 – Signals Report
2.7 Future of Work – Signals of Change
Week 2: How to Interpret Signals
2.8 How to Interpret Signals(video)
2.9 Your Turn! Analyze a Signal(video)
2.10 Your turn to analyze a signal!
Week 2: Where Do You Look for Signals? And Other FAQ
2.11 Where do you look for signals? And other FAQ(video)
2.12 More Examples of Signals of Change
2.13 Collect and analyze a signal!
Week 3: Look Back or Look Forward
3.1 Get Better at Noticing Change(video)
3.2 Excerpt: Hope in the Dark
3.3 How have YOU changed over the past 10 years?
Week 3: How to Use the Tool: “Look Back to Look Forward”
3.4 How to Look Back to Look Forward (Part I)(video)
3.5 How to Look Back to Look Forward (Part II)(video)
3.6 TOOL: Look Back to Look Forward
3.7 Look back at your future topic.
Week 3: Let’s Look Back Together
3.8 The Future of Work is Task-Based, not Time-Based
3.9 Who Invented Futures Thinking and Why?
3.10 Who invented futures thinking, and why?
Week 4: Four Types of Futures Thinking
4.1 The Future as a Way of Life
4.2 What’s Your Future State of Mind?(video)
4.3 Share your results from the four-square game!
Week 4: The Four Types of Futures Thinking
4.4 The Four Types of Futures Thinking(video)
4.5 A Guide to The Four Types of Futures Thinking
4.6 Can you identify the four types of futures thinking?
4.7 Help someone find their future!
Week 4: A Day in the Life of a Professional Futurist
4.8 Why I Future with Youth(video)
4.9 Why I Future with Musicians(video)
4.10 Why I Future with Incarcerated People(video)
4.11 Why I Future with My City(video)
4.12 How Professional Futurists Imagine the Future
4.13 Why do people use futures thinking in their work?
Week 4: Congratulations! You’re Ready to Think Like a Futurist
4.14 What’s your biggest “a ha” moment from this course?
4.15 Congratulations! You’ve finished this course(video)
4.16 An invitation to join our free Alumni Network
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Requirements
- A decent internet connection
- Mobile devices can access these
- Self Paced Course
- Integrated Groups
Target Audience
- This course is for everyone! No previous experience is required.
- The Course is entirely in English
- Anyone curious about the future
Material Includes
- Video Lessons
- Reading materials
- References
- Quizzes
Description
About this Course
Do you want to think about the future with more creativity and optimism? Do you want to see what’s coming faster, so you can be better prepared for disruptions and more in control of your future? Do you want to get better at changing what’s possible today – in your company, your industry, your community, and in your own life?
This course will introduce you to the practice of futures thinking, as developed and applied for the past 50 years by the Institute for the Future, a Silicon-Valley-based research and learning group founded in 1968. In this course, you’ll build your understanding of what futures thinking is and what you can do with it. You’ll master essential foresight techniques. You’ll meet some professional futurists. And you’ll choose one or more future topics you want to investigate with your new foresight skills. This course is for anyone who wants to spot opportunities for innovation and invention faster. You can gain the skills and confidence to help YOU become someone who makes the future, instead of letting the future happen to you. Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course.
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