EDUCATION AS CIVILIZATION BUILDING

The WFS has a responsibility to:

• Foster an educational system that encourages:
• Creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship from all individuals – based on different learning styles and multiple intelligences
• Individuals sharing ideas
• Integrity
• Ethical code/values based education
• Everyone to find their own challenges
• Integrative, holistic learning – beyond testing
• A formal course on future studies required in all educational systems
• Formal future networks required for all educational systems
• Education that emphasizes the ability to cope with changing conditions and the ability to continue learning new things as the need arises.
• How to learn to find the latest information fast, analyze and question it
• Formal and informal learning culture/systems/institutions that accept continuous, life-time self-learning that is
• Catalyst for learning how to learn
• Facilitating best practices exchange
• Dynamic system
• Annual ideas should be added to an ongoing education WFS website so that ideas are not lost. What happens to them?
• How to adapt information and ideas to your local needs
• How formal education can cooperate with others (community, business, etc.) in a positive way
• Promoting interdisciplinary interaction and approaches
• A common database/link/forum for sharing and analyzing data and information and ideas –
• Common gap analysis
• Share what works
• Bring our futurist business acumen to the futurist challenge
• On the job training + most meaningful learning/working on our shared challenge: to build a better world ASAP
• Using : 6 emergent social technologies of the information economy:

1. communities of practice
2. open knowledge
3. open source software
4. open innovation
5. “work” embedded learning
6. grass roots r&d
• Using 4 emergent information technologies:
1. peer to peer file sharing
2. instant messaging
3. blogs
4. wikis – learning locally, sharing globally
• =  Let a thousand collaborations bloom

• we need to get maximum benefit from the WFS programs that already exist and no one seems to know about
•  “Raising all boats” – equal educational opportunities for all
• system that engages educational institutions to implement a futuring/planning  model/program as Intel did on a factory basis
• System that understands and applies the idea that success in education depends on recognizing its interdependence with the community.
• Continue to link the future studies courses we already have around the world together to from a Master’s program
• Recognize and embrace our (WFS) role in leadership in futures education
• Establish futures cafes
• Establish futures Radio Station
• Establish futures TV station

Per Christy Dugger:

• Work actively to develop curriculum for public education (see Stephen Aguilar-Milan’s daughter Charlotte’s (14 years old) program
• Workshops for adults ( CA has some, Venezuela , Korea )
• Collaborative chapter meetings
• Korea WFS –
• advisors to Governor
• adult chapter
• junior chapter
• plan and reports
• awake Korea to promote family future education
• Condense WFS articles for class taken by college freshman
• Student futurist networks
• Christy Dugger will lead student futurist network and wants a workshop for International youth at WFS Conference - to present

We need to proceed to the How, When, Why, and Where by using the WFS Website

Also create area on the website for members to help us answer these questions and share what is working.

NOTE: requests were made for the Professional Forum breakout sessions and reports to be recorded.

Your Futures Resource