Futures Thinking - week 5

Futures thinking, why it is an important approach and how we could include it in the pedagogy of our own classroom.

Futures thinking involves considering all the possible outcomes or 'futures' of a product in order to increase the probability of the best possible outcome. As teachers we are expected to guide a students thinking so that they are set up with the skills they require to consider all possible outcomes and consider the impact it will have on the environment and the future. Futures thinking promotes the knowledge, skills and understanding that are needed in order to think more critically and creatively about the future (Fasso, 2015)

Education is about the future. It is important to give students the tools and opportunities to think about the future and their roles in it.

References:

Fasso, W. (2015) Week 5 Futures thinking Retrieved from CQUniversity e-courses, EDCU12038 Design and Digital technologies, http://moodle.cqu.edu.au