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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.

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