This document provides an overview of Future Casting, a framework for connecting students' interests and passions to academic content. It discusses generating self-awareness through exploring interests, values and goals. Students conduct research and complete activities like SWOT analyses and goal setting to develop plans for skill development. Productivity activities are suggested to work towards students' visions of their future selves. The document emphasizes creating personally meaningful work that is tied to identity and interests.

1. Future
Casting...
Future
Casting®
The Secondary Edition

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4. Pew Research Center, 2010

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9. Past Generations

10. Millennials

11. Past Generations

12. Past Generations

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Future
Casting®

23. A Pedagogical Road Map
Connecting Interests & Passions to
Academic Content
FutureCasting®
© Angela Housand, 2013

24. TYPE III
INDEPENDENT OR SMALL GROUP INVESTIGATIONS
PRODUCTS AND/OR PERFORMANCES
TYPE I
GENERAL
EXPLORATORY
ACTIVITIES
TYPE II
METHODOLOGICAL
TRAINING /
HOW-TO ACTIVITIES
(Renzulli, 1977)

25. Three Ring Conception of Giftedness

26. Courage
Optimism
Romance with a Topic
Vision or Sense of Destiny
Physical and Mental Fortitude
Sensitivity to Human Concerns

32. Who am I?

33. Who am I?
Who do I
want to be?

34. PRESENT FUTURETension

35. PRESENT FUTURESkill-Development
Self-Awareness
Productivity

36. Who am I?
Who do I
want to be?
1
2
3

37. 2. What do I need to learn?
1. What are my interests, values, & goals?
3. Who can help me?

38. 4
5
6
Who am I?
Who do I
want to be?

39. 6. Who will I be helping when I have
become who I want to be?
5. What will I be doing when I have
become who I want to be?
4. When will I know I have
become who I want to be?

40. WHO AREYOU?

41. Self-Awareness

42. Interests
Aspirations
Values
Talents

45. Did you know you have multiple identities?

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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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?

53. Activity:
Weebly Beginnings

54. It is so easy!
http://education.weebly.com/

61. Activity:
Explore

62. Explore

63. 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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66. LIFE
VALUES
INVENTORY
Values clarification & Personal Development

67. LIFE
VALUES
INVENTORY

68. The Interest-A-Lyzer
By
Joseph S. Renzulli
University of Connecticut

72. Explore
www.skillcow.com
cfnc.org
https://diy.org/
www.mynextmove.org
www.lifevaluesinventory.org

74. Future Self

75. Future Self
Current self and future
self are different people
If you can’t imagine the
future you opt for
immediate gratification

76. Immediate Gratification
1. Disregard for Future
Consequences
2. Responses are Reflexive —
Not Controlled or Intentional
3. Negatively Related to
“Joy” and “Happiness”

77. in20years.com

79. Skill
Development

80. Self-Regulatory
Domain Specific
Social
Internet

81. Writing
Activities

82. Remember the
future?
Press Release
The Ideal
Day…
Who are your
heroes?
Who am I?
How have I
grown?

83. Activity:
www.tagxedo.com

88. Activity:
S.W.O.T.

89. S
TO
W
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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92. Strengths
What unique skills do I have?
What do I do well?
When do others ask for my help?
What experiences have I had that will
help me as I move forward?
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93. 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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94. Opportunities
What opportunities are already
available to me?
What resources do I have available?
How can I use my strengths to create
opportunities for myself?
Who do I know that can help me?
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95. 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

97. S
M
A
T
R
pecific
easureable
ttainable
ealistic
ime-bound

98. Effective Goal Setting:
More Than SMART
Prioritized
Reviewed Periodically
Revised as Needed
Accountable to Others

99. Cyclical
&
Ongoing

100. www.liftinternational.com

106. The greater danger for most
of us lies not in setting our
aim too high and falling short;
but in setting our aim too low,
and achieving our mark.
-Michelangelo

107. Activity:
Meme

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115. Productivity

116. Consistency
Relevance
Quality
Valence

117. Activity:
Vlog or Blog

121. write stories
design graphics
paint pictures
program softwaretake photographs
make movies
start a business
perform music
invent sculpt
build
serve the community
advocate
create computer games
conduct an experiment
present research
raise funds

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

137. Thank You !!!