FutureCasting is a framework of “life skills” that enable young people to connect who they are today with the person they will be, both personally and professionally, in the future. Within this framework, students answer the questions “Who am I?” and “Who do I want to be?” The answers to these questions empower students to take control of their digital identity and personal reputation, identify the value systems that influence choices, define personal and “professional” goals, and become aware of how the choices they make today affect future opportunities. This presentation introduces teachers, parents, and counselors to FutureCasting and provides activities for participants that can be implemented immediately. Begin the work of helping students become the master of their own developmental trajectory and the hero of their own story!

1. Future
Casting...
© Angela Housand, 2013
Future
Casting...Become the Hero of Your Own Story

2. angelahousand.com
&

3. Watson College of Education
Angela Housand, Ph.D.
housanda@uncw.edu

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Future
Casting...
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5. A Portfolio
Development Process
for Adolescents and
Emerging Adults
FutureCasting...
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6. Who are you?
Control the Message
Casting Call
Action
Social Capital
FutureCasting.org
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7. WHO AREYOU?

8. Control the Message

9. BETHEHEROTHATCHANGESEVERYTHING
CASTING
CALL

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

11. Social
Capital

12. Connecting Who Students Are
Today
With Who They Will Be
Tomorrow
FutureCasting...
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15. 3 Ring Conception of Giftedness

18. Pew Research Center, 2010

20. 2076

24. Engineer Serendipity

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

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

29. WHO AREYOU?

30. Did you know you have multiple identities?

33. Activity Time:
Weebly Beginnings

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

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

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45. 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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46. 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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47. 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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48. 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
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50. Activity Time:
Explore
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51. Explore

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

63. Activity Time:
Who AreYour Heroes?

64. Visualize
Yourself
in the
Future

65. Activity Time:
The Accomplishments
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66. Activity Time:
The Ideal Day...

67. Activity Time:
Remember the Future

68. BETHEHEROTHATCHANGESEVERYTHING
CASTING
CALL

69. Future Self

71. in20years.com

72. Activity Time:
Tagxedo Me
www.tagxedo.com

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

78. Control the Message

80. 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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82. Digital
Identity

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

84. 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

85. 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

86. 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?

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

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

90. Activity Time:
Digital Footprint
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91. 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

92. Set Up Alerts!
google.com/alerts

93. 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

96. 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

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

100. 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

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

102. 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!

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

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

105. Cyclical
&
Ongoing

110. www.liftinternational.com

113. Goal attainment
is not luck,

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

115. Social
Capital

117. Activity Time:
Meme
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126. Activity Time:
Map the Network
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128. • Manage Relationship Expectations
• Genuinely Interested in People
• Practice Emotional Self-Awareness
• Aware of their tempers and
idiosyncrasies

129. Manage
Relationships
• Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain
• Give honest and sincere appreciation
• Figure out how to get others to want to do
or not do...

130. Manage
Relationships
• Arousing the desire to do or act in a
particular way:
• Make the person feel important
• Let the person believe the idea was
their own - let them take credit.
• Simply building self-efficacy

131. Become Well Liked

132. Become Well Liked
• Be genuinely interested in people
• Smile or be positive
• Use the person’s name

133. • Be interested in what the other
person is interested in
• Make the other person feel
important by genuinely valuing
what they have to offer
• There can be more power in listening than
talking
Become Well Liked

134. Engender
Support
• Avoid conflict or arguments when possible
• Show respect for others’ opinions and
ideas

135. Nobody
Likes to Hear
“You’re Wrong”

136. Engender
Support
• Admit when you are wrong
• The sooner you can get someone to say
yes, the more they will say yes
• Let the other person do a great deal of the
talking

139. Thank You!