WHAT KIND OF A FUTURE ...? Looking 50 years, 100 years into the future. (1-2 days)

 

Students, or teams of students, describe a future world in which they would like to live. The purpose is to invite the students to imagine the future in a flexible way, first investing themselves in the future with the elements of life they care about, and then looking at the constraints.

Questions to investigate about conceptualizing the future include:

	1. What kind of future would you like for you?
	2. What kind of future do you want for your friends, town, region, country?
	3. What kind of future do you see? Is it the same as the one you want? What are your biggest concerns?

Handheld possibilities:

For each of the questions above:

°Brainstorm a list (Memo) of things that will definitely change in 50 years, 100 years and another list of things that might change. Beam these ideas to one another.

°Develop concept maps (e.g. Picomap) to describe key factors influencing the future and their inter-relationships. If students start with different variables, they can then join their maps together.

°Sketch images (e.g. Sketchy, Drawit) that symbolize key elements of the future.

°Build a database (e.g. Think DB, Filemaker Mobile, Mobile DB) of ideas about the future. Each student or teams of students could build their own, including sketches of transportation and food and energy of the future.

Resources: the game "Future Stories"

 

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