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A Practical Guide to the Future
This page will help you find information and "how-to" guides that will assist you in teaching and learning about the future for instruction, personal and professional development.
The items below are organized around the four categories below. Just click on the category of interest below and review the opprotunities!
TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOUT THE FUTURE
For classes and training of all kinds...
For classes and training of all kinds...
- Futures Exercises and Content
One click futures exercises created by faculty at AACC
Futures Content: List of topics, tools and tasks from 25 futurists on five continents - Futures Videos
- AACC Brownbag Futures Presentations
- TED (search for "future")
- YouTube (search for "future" or "futurists")
- Hulu (search for "future" or "futurists")
- A Self-Contained Learning Module on the Future: Two Steps!
Ask students to read the first chapter of the key test Futuring by Ed Cornish
"Welcome to the Future" PDF A good assignment for students; free of charge
Need a set of Power Point slides to use in support of this chapter? View PDF version of slides - Futures articles and links to futures sites to stimulate discussion
- IF @ AACC questions and answers about the future archives
- IF @ AACC futureportal newsletter archives
- Get the free Futures newsletter futureportal for you or for your students
- Personal Futures Network
Verne Wheelwright's personal futures page - Free Personal Futures Workbook
Hard copy download OR PDF - The Futures Family Worksheet
- Personal Futures Wheel
- Futures Organization for students & learners of all kinds
AACC FIG (Futures Interest Group) Club but open to others
PROFESSIONAL AND COURSE DEVELOPMENT
- Fundamentals of Foresight
Free 10-lesson futures course with Tim Mack, President of the WFS - Journal of Futures Studies - a free online journal with many teaching/learning related articles
- A Sample Survey Course on the Future
- FTR100 Exploring the Future: Sample Syllabus
- A blueprint workbook for starting a futures institute
- Books; WFS book list; Future and Building the Future books
- Methods and Tools
- Futures Speakers
- Local - contact if@aacc.edu
- Global - Contact the World Future Society
- Selected Futures Professional Organizations
- Overview of IF @ AACC
- Idea Incubator: Strategy for use of creative problem solving and creativity techniques
- Sample Community Project: Annapolis 2060
- Pilot After-School Program PDF
- Get the free monthly futures newsletter futureportal for you or your students
- Futures Organization for students & learners of all kinds
AACC FIG (Futures Interest Group) Club but open to others - Futures Speakers
- Local - contact if@aacc.edu
- Global - Contact the World Future Society
