Using Games in Teaching Future Thinking

Nowadays it’s easy to find various scary visions regarding global future from the media news stream: there’s a lot of discussion about war, environmental crisis, economic collapses and countless other serious threats.

Skills you gain

The basic idea behind future thinking and concepts that are relevant to it

The basic principles and purpose of future oriented guidance

How to apply games as a pedagogical tool specifically in teaching future thinking

Learn to create and reflect your own gamified activities

Improve capability to guide exercises and activities that improve future thinking

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10 tuntia

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Using Games in Teaching Future Thinking

  • Educators, youth workers
  • English

How could we put more effort to also highlighting all the opportunities and potential positive developments that are just as equally possible?
The key to this is future thinking but what exactly do we mean by that?
What kind of phenomena are affecting how our future will look like?
How can you use games to discuss about different possible futures and strengthen future thinking?

All of these questions will be answered during this Micro Course. The basic idea is to provide you with practical, simple and fun tools for teaching future thinking to groups or individuals. The future thinking is basis for future career guidance and building necessary future work life skills such as resilience and critical thinking. The content of the course is designed to work internationally.

During this course, you will

  • learn from expert guidance
  • watch videos
  • read study materials
  • take quizzes
  • complete game design and programming related tasks

The final task for the team is to develop an idea into a fully working game that will be published to wider audiences.

During this Micro Course, you will learn

  • To understand the basic idea behind future thinking and concepts that are relevant to it.  
  • To understand basic principles and purpose of future oriented guidance. 
  • To understand the benefits of using games as a pedagogical tool. 
  • To understand how to apply games as a pedagogical tool specifically in teaching future thinking. 
  • Learn to create and reflect your own gamified activities.
  • Improve capability to guide exercises and activities that improve future thinking.  
  • 8 educational videos
  • Quizzes to measure your learning during the course
  • Final assignment for testing the skills you have learned in practice

Work your way through the all the course material in the order that it is displayed on the page. This way you will start with the basics and then move on to the more challenging topics. It should take you about 10 hours to complete this course.

To pass this course, you will need to complete all the course activities and get at least 75% of them correct. You will also need to give us some feedback at the end of the course. Once all those parts are completed and we have received your feedback, you’ll receive your certificate.

Does this Micro Course interest you? This is what to do!

  1. Click on the Add to Cart button.
  2. Pay for the Course according to the online store instructions.
  3. You’ll receive emails from Edufication. If buying for the first time, please follow the link in order to change your password.
  4. Go to your Edufication Learner Profile and proceed to the Course, take the Course within 6 months and enjoy learning new.

About the instructors

Antti Rantaniva

Antti has years of experience in youth work and coaching young people. He currently works at Juvenia Youth Research and Development Centre (South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences) developing future coaching targeted especially for young people.

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Ville Eerikäinen

Ville has years of experience in youth work and coaching young people. He currently works at Juvenia Youth Research and Development Centre (South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences) developing future coaching targeted especially for young people.

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Reviews

Anonymous

01.08.2023

I learned so much about future thinking and got great methods to use in my lectures!

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