The FutureSight toolkit helps you consider how children of 2020 will want to learn, and how schools will need to change to meet those needs. The toolkit costs £35. Find out more and how to order
Will children of the future learn alone at home or in small groups, linking with teachers and other pupils via virtual communities? This is one of six scenarios that you can explore with the FutureSight toolkit.
FutureSight is part of an international project undertaken with the OECD, the DfES Innovation Unit and Demos, developing the OECD Schooling for Tomorrow initiative. This initiative explores the nature of schools and their response to the challenges of the 21st century.
A set of scenarios for schooling in the future was initially developed by the OECD in 2001. Scenarios can enable us to see the familiar in new ways and thus understand more about our current direction of travel, values and principles. By looking at scenarios in combination, we can begin to imagine a preferred future and practical ways of making this a reality.
Since then, NCSL has worked with national partners to develop a "futures thinking"toolkit. Seminars have taken place with schools facing challenging circumstances, students, leading edge schools, policy-makers and international colleagues to develop these materials.
FutureSight is designed as a seminar built around eight hours of learning, for groups of up to 10 people, each group supported by a facilitator. It draws on the tacit knowledge and experience of the participants but it also uses the public knowledge contained within the trends and scenarios. There are four modules, each of which has a distinct learning design and a set of tools.
Download an overview of the modules
(63kb, 1 page)
The FutureSight toolkit helps you consider how children of 2020 will want to learn, and how schools will need to change to meet those needs.
The toolkit builds school leaders’ abilities to explore the complexity of the future in new and exciting ways. Structured activities provide a framework for participants to find out what it might be like to be a learner, a teacher, and a parent or carer in different situations. It helps the group members to uncover their values and assumptions that underpin their thinking. Through discussion, the group takes a journey from current reality to preferred futures. Along the way they identify factors that influence the pace and direction of travel.
The FutureSight toolkit costs £35 (VAT exempt) and includes a facilitator's guide, 10 participant workbooks, various games and a set of flipcharts that can be used with groups of up to 10 people. You can also order extra workbooks at £10 for a pack of 10.
Visit our publication pages and find out how to
order the toolkit
(63kb, 1 page)
View sample pages from the materials:
Introduction
(83kb, 5 pages)
Trends and scenarios
(70kb, 4 pages)
Workbook
(547kb, 7 pages)
Find out more about the
FutureSight launch event
(547kb, 7 pages)
Find out more about the FutureSight launch event and download the presentations.
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