Help students find meaning in their work using FutureCasting. All too often we ask students to follow our curriculum, but do we really help them connect to learning emotionally, personally, and intellectually? Join us as we help students identify their talent and interest in order to become truly engaged learners.

1. Future
Casting...
Future
Casting®
Become the Hero of Your Own Story

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4. 20th Annual

5. Let’s Get Started
1. Find a partner to work with.
(Someone you don’t know!)
2. Give your partner your full
name.
3. Search your partner online -
take notes about them.

6. Generation Z

9. 976

11. Average = 9 hrs/day

12. Less than 3%

16. © Angela Housand, 2013
Future
Casting®

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

18. 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)

19. Three Ring Conception of Giftedness

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

25. WHO AREYOU?

26. Control the Message

27. CALLING
ALL
HEROESBETHEHEROTHATCHANGESEVERYTHING

28. ACTION !!!

29. Social Capital

30. FutureCasting®org
© Angela Housand, 2013

31. WHO AREYOU?

32. Activity:
Describe Yourself

33. Did you know you have multiple identities?

36. Activity:
Weebly Beginnings

37. It is easy!

48. I like to…
I am good at…
I am proud that I…
My favorite food is…
My favorite animal is…

49. Quotes that represent me…
If I could only save
three things…
Images that represent me…I am proud that I…

53. Activity:
Explore

54. Explore

55. 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?
© Angela Housand, 2013

56. LIFE
VALUES
INVENTORY
Values Clarification & Personal Development

57. LIFE
VALUES
INVENTORY

63. www.shsu.edu/lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html

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

74. AP EXAM
In 2005
1.2 million students took 2.1 million AP
exams
in 37 subjects

75. AP EXAM
In 2009
1.6 million students took 2.8 million AP
exams
in 37 subjects

76. Admission to College
• Students with an AP class on
their transcript were 30% more
likely to be accepted into a
college or university

77. Admission to College
• Students with an AP class on
their transcript were 30% more
likely to be accepted into a
college or university
• The percentage increased when the
number of AP courses on the
transcript increased

78. Top College Admissions Criteria
5th Number of AP Courses
6th AP Class Grades
9th AP Exam Scores

79. Control the Message

81. BETHANY MOTA

82. $40,000.00

83. Digital
Identity

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

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

88. 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
© Angela Housand, 2013

89. Activity:
Online ID

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

92. 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

93. 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

94. 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?

100. Valence
Volume
Quality

101. Activity:
Blog or Vlog

102. MATT NADEL

105. marques brownlee

106. Content
Quality

107. Always improving
Attending to detail
A lot of hard work
“Able to make some serious money”
MKBHD

110. Activity:
Blog or Vlog
YOUR TURN!

113. ilegePri

114. CALLING
ALL
HEROESBETHEHEROTHATCHANGESEVERYTHING

115. Visualize
Yourself
in the
Future

116. Future Self

118. in20years.com

121. Activity:
Tagxedo Me
www.tagxedo.com

126. ACTION !!!

127. Writing Prompt
● I would like to improve…
● Some people are unhappy with…
● I want to learn more about…
● An idea I would like to try…
● Something I think would really make a
difference is…
● Something I would like to change is…

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

129. Cyclical
&
Ongoing

134. www.liftinternational.com

136. Activity:
S.W.O.T.

137. 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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139. © Angela Housand, 2013

140. 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?
© Angela Housand, 2013

141. 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?
© Angela Housand, 2013

142. 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?
© Angela Housand, 2013

143. 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

144. Goal attainment
is not luck,

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

146. Social Capital

149. Explicit Hierarchy

150. Implicit Hierarchy

152. Relational & Egalitarian

153. Advantageous

154. Exchange
There must be an opportunity to exchange
skills and access information.

157. Don’t
you
think
if I were
wrong,
I’d
KNOW it?

158. 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

159. Possibility
There must be the possibility of gaining
NEW knowledge and developing NEW skills.

162. Motivated
All members must be motivated to engage
without knowing the outcome value.

163. (Otta & Tavella, 2010)
Autonomyw/Competence

164. (Otta & Tavella, 2010)
Autonomyw/Competence
IntrinsicMotivation

165. (Otta & Tavella, 2010)
TooEasyorTooHard
IntrinsicMotivation

166. High achieving students
demonstrated greater
autonomy and
competence than low
achieving students in
computer-based learning
tasks.
(Otta & Tavella, 2010)

167. • Interesting
• Integral to one’s
vision of the
future
• Immediately
useful
• Tied to one’s identity
Achievement Motivation

168. Capable
All members must be capable of absorbing, applying,
and recognizing the value of new information.

170. Relational & Egalitarian

172. Activity:
Meme

176. © Angela Housand, 2013

181. Valence
Volume
Quality

184. Productivity

185. Consistency
Relevance
Quality
Valence

188. 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

205. Fight the Good Fight
“I wish a politician with no teaching
experience would just come in and
tell me how to
teach,” said no
teacher EVER.

207. Discover
YOUR
Superpower

208. With great
POWER
comes great
RESPONSIBILITY.

209. Live by a Code of Honor

210. Invest in Yourself

211. Invest in Yourself
Personal Growth

212. Invest in Yourself
Personal Growth
Professional Learning

213. Invest in Yourself
Personal Growth
Professional Learning
Health & Well Being

214. You Can Change the World

219. Thank You!

220. Learning &
Performance
Environment &
Behavior
Life Outside
School
Digital Access
full electronic participation
in society
Digital Security & Safety
electronic precautions to
guarantee safety
Digital Law
electronic responsibility for
actions & deeds
Digital Communication
electronic exchange of
information
Digital Etiquette
electronic standards of
conduct or procedure
Digital Health & Wellness
physical & psychological
well-being in a digital world
Digital Literacy
teaching & learning about
technology and its use
Digital Rights &
Responsibilities
freedoms extended to
everyone in a digital world
Digital Commerce
electronic buying and
selling of goods