Institute for the Future - A Practical Guide to the Future

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A Practical Guide to the Future

This page will help you find information and "how-to" templates that will assist you in teaching and learning about the future for instruction and professional development.

The items below are in a "question and answer" format that requires access to the Web. Just click on the item of interest below, and you'll be guided to an answer.

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Teaching and Learning About the Future

I'd like to create a futures exercise for my class. How can I do this?

Has anyone else created college level classroom futures exercises that I can use?

I'd like a brief future's article to stimulate thought and drive critical thinking in my classes. Where can I find one?

How can I find a list of books on the future?

I'd like to include a video on the future in one of my courses. Do we have any? How can I get one?

I've heard that the Futurist magazine has a variety of interesting brief futures articles. How can my students and I get access to these articles?

How can I do this "stuff " in class? Are there any tools?

Can I have a "futures" speaker visit my classes? Can you recommend any?

Are there any brief personal or professional development, non-credit modules on the future? (go to page 47 on this PDF file for Futures offerings).

OK, how do you register?

College and Community

What IS the Institute for the Future @ AACC (IF @ AACC)?

Who leads IF @ AACC?

IF @ AACC is a partner with the World Future Society (WFS)? What and who is WFS?

I know a community group that could use a "futures" speaker. Can you recommend any?

I'm going to make a community presentation soon. Can I get some IF @ AACC material to take with me?

I'm going to make a professional presentation at a conference soon. Can I get some IF @ AACC material to take with me?

Are there some other Institutes, Centers and Programs at AACC?

Do you have a newsletter?

I have some friends who might like to get IF's newsletter. How do they sign up?

Catalog of useful futures links

What's going to happen next? Do you have any trends for the future?

Are there professional organizations that support a futures view?

Do you have a set of general resources on the future?

A Self-contained Learning Module on the Future: Two Steps!

Ask students to read the first chapter of the key text Futuring by Ed Cornish, "Welcome to the Future" a good assignment for students and free of charge (send your students to this link, a PDF reader is necessary like Adobe Acrobat)

Do you need a set of Power Point Slides to use in support of this chapter?

Get the PDF version of the slides here.

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Last Updated: Dec 1 2006 9:29AM