• Modern society is awash in a sea of change; therefore, anticipate a future starkly different from the past and unlike the present.
• People really DO try to influence the future, particularly, that of families, work spaces, and community with good intentions in mind.

• Unfortuately, most are novices at best since formal education offers little preparation for "divining" the future.
• As such, each new graduating class is set adrift on this sea of change called the future with little more than "a wish on a wing!"
  

• The future hasn’t happened yet, how can one teach it?
• The future is too complicated, how can anyone know it?
• I myself have no formal training about the future.
• My state’s curriculum standards don't include "futures-related" content.

--to facilitate access to Ready-to-GO! instructional materials

augmenting regular lessons with a tip, tool or strategy involving foresight education.
developing foresight units and stand-alone courses within the regular school environment.
promoting "foresight" enhancing programs.

--to facilitate access to Foresight Experts (both educators and others).

--to serve as a link in the worldwide Foresight Community

among teachers who teach/have taught foresight courses
among the graduate foresight programs located around the world
with professional futurists in business, government and not-for-profit organizations

• If you have taught a foresight module, unit or course, send your material (at least one) to foresighteducation@uh.edu. We will post your material and invite you to be a contributor to this site. After that, you can add as much material as you like.

• If you are interested in teaching a foresight course, you may use the material on this site for your classes.

• And anyone can subscribe to the Foresight Education listserve by sending an email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UH.EDU with the word subscribe foresighteducation in the body of the message.

• Futures Studies, University of Houston's graduate program; and the student-alumni site for the program
  
• Futures Learning Section, World Futures Society ("Futurist Update" free: www.wfs.org/futuristupdate.htm)
• Online Centre for Pedagogical Research, World Futures Studies Federation
• FutureTakes, an online newsletter
  
• Institute for the Future, Anne Arundel Community College
• Futures Education and Research Network, Acceleration Studies Foundation
• Foresight International, Brisbane, Australia
  
• Texas Future Problem Solving Program
• Future Problem Solving International
• Global Millennium Prize, Millennium Project
• Proteus, U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Center for Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College
• TechCast, A virtual think tank on technology developments.
  

A note on terminology: As opposed to the term “futurist,”commonly understood to be a professional who deals with the long-term future, the field of foresight and futures studies is still looking for a name. Among thecandidates are futures studies, futures research, futurology, futurism, futuristics and foresight. We have chosen to use “foresight” because (1) it is now the common term for describing and influencing long-term change in most of the world and (2) it carries less baggage than the older terms do. We hope you agree.

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