Futures literacy is the ability to understand the impact that current choices, actions, and trends have on our future. This module will equip educators to empower learners to use their imagination, and awareness to envision, adapt to, and actively create new possibilities for the future. Futures literacy is a unique approach to solving the complex challenges associated with for example climate change and society’s transition towards a circular economy. It enables learners to understand foresight as a tool for innovation and resilience and critically assess the assumptions we all carry.

This module equips you to:

  • Use foresight as a methodology to help explore potential futures, identifying signals that reveal alternative ways of doing things, and creating scenarios or stories to illustrate various possible outcomes.

  • Navigate anxiety and uncertainty, understanding how what we do today shapes tomorrow, while opening our minds about what we could do today to achieve a better future.    

  • Thrive amid change and be resilient and optimistic about the future enabling you to build agency and strategic thinking so that learners can work toward their vision.

Time usage: Estimated time to read through and explore the module approx. 60 min.

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