Digital Citizenship through Self-Awareness FutureCasting™ is a curriculum of “life skills” that enables individuals of all ages to take control of their digital identity and personal reputation, identify the value systems that influence choices, define personal and professional goals, and build influence in a global society. The goals of FutureCasting™ are to: 1. Increase individuals’ self-awareness, engagement in learning, and achievement 2. Enable individuals to develop globally recognized digital identities 3. Prepare individuals to contribute positively to local, national, and global communities. The FutureCasting™ framework provide the necessary knowledge, tools, and skills to create a digitally responsible and influential online identity while serving numerous educational goals. For example, Millennials (individuals aged 10-25), have never known a life without computers and access to the Internet. However, just because Millennials are “digital natives” does not mean they know how to use technology responsibly or effectively leverage the ubiquitous information available online. FutureCasting™ enables them to learn the skills of digital citizenship: Being responsible producers and critical consumers of information on the Internet. Skills like conducting research online, developing a professional network, and creating a website are combined with critical self-examination to help users attain truly integrated success. FutureCasting™ has the potential to benefit anyone who wants to increase their online presence, align their digital footprint with personal and professional goals, or learn the skills of socially responsible action. Students, ages 12-25, can use FutureCasting™ to create a digital portfolio that reflects the intersection of personal interests with academic productivity. Meanwhile adults entering the workforce can use FutureCasting™ to develop an online presence that highlights their unique talents; making their successes more accessible to future employers and putting them ahead of their competition. In an era when information and opportunities are driven by access to information on the Internet, a tool like FutureCasting™ is what empowers people to leverage that information to catapult themselves into a future of their own design.

1. Future
Casting...
Future
Casting.Become the Hero of Your Own Story
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8. Pew Research Center, 2010

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Casting.™

17. 3 Ring Conception of Giftedness

19. A Portfolio
Development Process
Connecting Interests & Passions to
Academic Content
!
FutureCasting.
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20. Who are you?
Control the Message
Casting Call
Action
Social Capital
!
FutureCasting.org
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21. WHO AREYOU?

22. Control the Message

23. BETHEHEROTHATCHANGESEVERYTHING
CASTING
CALL

24. ACTION !!!
The Hero of Your
Own Story

25. Social
Capital

26. Connecting Who Students Are
Today
With Who They Will Be
Tomorrow
!
FutureCasting...
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28. Engineer Serendipity

29. Plan a Preferred Future
Decide WHO not WHAT to be
Pragmatic honesty
Enable Students to
Achieve a Chosen
Destiny

30. Enable Students to
Achieve a Chosen
Destiny
Focus on what is important to prevent
wasting time
!
Achieve more than they ever imagined
possible

33. WHO AREYOU?

34. Did you know you have multiple identities?

37. Activity Time:
Weebly Beginnings

45. Activity Time:
S.W. O.T.

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TO
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Helpful
to achieving the
objective
Harmful
to achieving the
objective
Internal Origin
!
Attributes of the
Individual
Strengths Weaknesses
External Origin
!
Attributes of the
Environment
Opportunities Threats
SWOT
Analysis

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49. Strengths
What unique skills do I have?
What do I do well?
What resources do I have available?
Who do I know that can help me?
What experiences have I had that will
help me as I move forward?
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50. Weaknesses
What areas do I need to improve?
What do others view as my weakness
or area for improvement?
What is something I would like to
change?
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51. Opportunities
What opportunities are already
available to me?
How can I use my strengths to create
opportunities for myself?
Who might be willing to help me?
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52. Threats
What could hinder my success?
What are potential problems I could
encounter?
What are the challenges I face?
What are the restrictions in my life
(time, money, vehicle, access to
computer or the Internet, etc.)? © Angela Housand, 2013

54. Activity Time:
Explore
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55. Explore

56. Explore
Students Conduct Research to Answer:
What are my values?
How do I like to spend my time?
What might I want to do in the future?
What skills do I need to be successful in the future?
What steps do I need to take to attain my vision of the future?
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65. Explore
www.skillcow.com
cfnc.org
https://diy.org/
www.mynextmove.org
www.lifevaluesinventory.org

67. Activity Time:
Who AreYour Heroes?

68. Control the Message

69. Source: Munster, G. (2014)
Taking Stock With Teens: Collaborative Consumer Insights Project. Piper Jaffray.

70. Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/facebook-texting-teens-
instagram-snapchat-most-popular-social-network/373043/

71. Why Control the
Message?
• College Admissions Officers & Committees
will search you
• Potential Employers will search you
• Friends (& non-friends) will search you
• Your Competition will search you
• Potential Boyfriend/Girlfriend will search you
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72. BETHANY MOTA

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77. $40,000.00

78. Digital
Identity

79. Volume
The amount of information there is about
you on the internet

80. Relevancy
The usefulness of the information that exists
about you and how consistent that
information is with you you say you are and
what you claim to value

81. Purity
The amount of information that comes up in
an Internet search that is about you and not
someone with a similar name or similar
interests

82. Diversity
The mixture of information found when you
are searched online:
• Do you have a website?
• Are you found in real time content?
• Are there images and video of you?

84. Activity Time:
Online ID
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85. • With quotes around your name, search
yourself on Google,Yahoo!, and Bing
• What did you find?
Search Yourself

86. Search Yourself
You want to find:
• Favorable entries about your work
• Flattering or neutral mentions of your
personal life

87. Activity Time:
Digital Footprint
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88. How To
Control the Message
• Find Out What’s on the Web
• Clean Up Content thatYou Don’t Want
Everyone in the World to See
• Create a More Flattering Image Online

89. Set Up Alerts!
google.com/alerts

90. Start with what you have posted:
• Delete any negative comments you’ve made
• Delete inappropriate photos or videos
• Check all sites!
!
• Edit blog entries that are negative
Remove Unflattering
Content

93. You Can Start Fresh Too:
• Delete all of your accounts
• Create new ones with a unique name for
yourself
• Use your middle initial
• Use your nickname
• Remember...Nothing really ever goes away.
Remove Unflattering
Content

95. Remove Unflattering
Content
• Ask others to remove negative
content about you.
• Remove “tags” from photos
• Paid services:
reputation.com
internetreputation.com

97. Reset Privacy Settings:
• Block groups or individuals from viewing
content that you would prefer to be
private
• Manage our groups regularly and
remove unsupportive members
Remove Unflattering
Content

98. • Avoid overly prolific status updates
• Claim your domain name
GoDaddy.com
• Create a More Flattering Image Online
Other Message
Management Tips

99. The BEST Way To
Control the Message
Create Favorable Content
• Set up a linkedin.com profile that is public
• Get people to “endorse” you professionally
• Update profiles regularly
• Blog on a topic of interest
• Contribute in positive ways to the online
community - and do so often!

100. Activity Time:
BlogYour Interests

101. MATT NADEL

104. BETHEHEROTHATCHANGESEVERYTHING
CASTING
CALL

105. Visualize
Yourself
in the
Future

106. Future Self

108. in20years.com

109. Activity Time:
Tagxedo Me
!
www.tagxedo.com

114. • Tied to Student’s
Identity
• Personally
Interesting
• Integral to the
Student’s Vision of
the future
• Viewed as Useful
(Eccles & Wigfield)
Personally Meaningful

115. ACTION !!!
The Hero of Your
Own Story

116. S
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pecific
easureable
ttainable
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ime-bound

117. Cyclical
&
Ongoing

122. www.liftinternational.com

125. Goal attainment
is not luck,

126. Goal attainment
is not luck,
it takes time and
requires effort.

127. Social
Capital

129. Activity Time:
Meme
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138. Activity Time:
Map the Network
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139. Explicit Hierarchy

140. Explicit Hierarchy
Institutional Hierarchy

141. Implicit Hierarchy

145. (bytelaunch.com)

151. Thank You!