• Week 8 - Evolving the future


    • This week we start exploring skills and methods to help us evolve a more preferable future.

    • Systems Thinking

      To understand why a problem exists and how to improve it, or how the future might be, we have to understand the systems and dynamics that create these outcomes.

      Concepts: system, cause, consequence, decentralized, feedback, dynamic

      Conceptual Questions: How do complex systems change? How do feedback loops affect complex systems?

      Skills and Competencies: systems thinking, evaluation competency, action competency

      Subjects: Social studies, history, biology, geography

    • page icon
      Page
      Week 9 Presentation Systems Thinking Page
    • page icon
      Page
      Systems Thinking: Readings and Resources Page

    • Future thinking

      Concepts: mental time travel, future, scenario, morality, values, optimism, pessimism, certainty, possibility

      Conceptual questions:

      • How do our values influence our thinking about the future?
      • How does our moral reasoning influence our thinking about the future?

      Skills and competencies: future thinking, evaluation competency

      Subjects: Ethics, languages, art

    • page icon
      Page
      Week 9 Presentation Future Thinking Page
    • page icon
      Page
      Future Thinking: Readings and Resources Page

    • Assignments

    • quiz icon
      Quiz
      Quiz: Future thinking and systems thinking