FutureCasting

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The National Research Center on
the Gifted and Talented

Activity Time:
Adjective Storm

Grow by Design or Live a Life by Default

Future
Casting...
© Angela Housand, 2013
Future
Casting...Become the Hero of Your Own Story
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A Digital Portfolio
Development Process
for Gifted Students

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FutureCasting...

Who are you?

Control the Message

Casting Call

Action

Social Capital

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FutureCasting.org

Connecting WhoYou Are

Today

With WhoYou Will Be
Tomorrow

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FutureCasting...

3 Ring Conception of Giftedness

Plan a Preferred Future
Decide WHO not WHAT to be
Pragmatic honesty
Enable Students to
Achieve a Chosen
Destiny

Enable Students to
Achieve a Chosen
Destiny
Focus on what is important to prevent
wasting time
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Achieve more than they ever imagined
possible

Did you know you have multiple identities?

Volume
The amount of information there is about
you on the internet

Relevancy
The usefulness of the information that exists
about you and how consistent that
information is with you you say you are and
what you claim to value

Purity
The amount of information that comes up in
an Internet search that is about you and not
someone with a similar name or similar
interests

Diversity
The mixture of information found when you
are searched online:

• Do you have a website?

• Are you found in real time content?

• Are there images and video of you?

Activity Time:
Weebly Beginnings

Activity Time:
Interest Inventory

Explore
Students Conduct Research to Answer:
What are my values?
How do I like to spend my time?
What might I want to do in the future?
What skills do I need to be successful in the future?
What steps do I need to take to attain my vision of the future?

LIFE!
VALUES!
INVENTORY
Values clariﬁcation & Personal Development!
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Fill out a rather extensive questionnaire and receive results.!

Activity Time:
Explore

Explore
www.skillcow.com

cfnc.org

https://diy.org/

www.mynextmove.org

www.lifevaluesinventory.org

http://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse

Activity Time:
Remember the Future

What is
YOUR
definition of
success?

BETHEHEROTHATCHANGESEVERYTHING
CASTING
CALL

Future Self
• Research shows that people
think of their current selves and
future selves as different people.
(Pronin & Ross, 2006; Wakslak et al., 2008)

Future Self
• Limited ability to imagine one’s
future self leads to opting for
immediate gratiﬁcation.
(van Gelder, Hershﬁeld, & Nordgren, 2013)

Seeking
Immediate Gratiﬁcation
• Future consequences are not considered

• Respond reﬂexively rather than
intentionally and with control

• Negatively related to “joy” and “happiness”

• Living in the “here and now” is one
of the strongest correlates of
delinquent behavior.

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• People with a “here and now”
orientation respond to tangible
stimuli and are unable to defer
gratiﬁcation.
Future Self
(Gottfredson & Hirshchi, 1990; Pratt & Cullen, 2000)
(Nagin & Pogarsky, 2003)

Activity Time:
The Accomplishments

Visualize
Yourself
in the
Future

CreativeVisualization
• What do you see?

• What do you feel?

• What do you hear?

• What does it smell like?

A process of visualizing speciﬁc
behaviors or events occurring in
one’s life.

Assumes students’ have
experience with creative thinking
and creative problem solving.

The best time to plant a tree
was 20 years ago.
The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb

NOT JUST ONE TIME!

Once the schema is clear, the
visualization can be repeated to
support continuation toward goal
attainment.

• Tied to Student’s
Identity
• Personally
Interesting
• Integral to the
Student’s Vision of
the future
• Viewed as Useful
(Eccles & Wigfield)
Personally Meaningful

Activity Time:
Who AreYour Heroes?

AreYour
Efforts
Driven by
Your
Passions?

• If you could do anything for 8
hours a day for the rest of your
life, and money were no object,
what would you do?

• Am I excited to do what I’m
doing every day? If not, is it me or
something else?
AskYourself

Activity Time:
Tagxedo Me
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www.tagxedo.com

Activity Time:
The Press Release

Why Control the
Message?
• College Admissions Ofﬁcers & Committees
will search you

• Potential Employers will search you

• Friends (& non-friends) will search you

• Your Competition will search you

• Potential Boyfriend/Girlfriend will search you

How To
Control the Message
• Find Out What’s on the Web

• Clean Up Content thatYou Don’t Want
Everyone in the World to See

• Create a More Flattering Image Online

• With quotes around your name, search
yourself on Google,Yahoo!, and Bing

• What did you ﬁnd?
Search Yourself

Search Yourself
You want to ﬁnd:

• Favorable entries about your work

• Flattering or neutral mentions of your
personal life

Start with what you have posted:

• Delete any negative comments you’ve made

• Delete inappropriate photos or videos

• Check all sites!

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• Edit blog entries that are negative
Remove Unﬂattering
Content

You Can Start Fresh Too:

• Delete all of your accounts

• Create new ones with a unique name for
yourself

• Use your middle initial

• Use your nickname

• Remember...Nothing really ever goes away.
Content

Content
• Ask others to remove negative
content about you.

• Remove “tags” from photos

• Paid services:

reputation.com

internetreputation.com

Reset Privacy Settings:

• Block groups or individuals from viewing
content that you would prefer to be
private

• Manage our groups regularly and
remove unsupportive members
Content

• Avoid overly proliﬁc status updates

• Claim your domain name

GoDaddy.com

• Create a More Flattering Image Online
Other Message
Management Tips

The BEST Way To
Control the Message
Create Favorable Content
• Set up a linkedin.com proﬁle that is public

• Get people to “endorse” you professionally

• Update proﬁles regularly

• Blog on a topic of interest

• Contribute in positive ways to the online
community - and do so often!

Activity Time:
The Ideal Day...

ACTION !!!
The Hero of Your
Own Story

S
TO
W
Helpful

to achieving the
objective
Harmful
to achieving the
objective
Internal Origin

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Attributes of the
Individual
Strengths Weaknesses
External Origin
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Attributes of the
Environment
Opportunities Threats
SWOT
Analysis

Strengths
What unique skills do I have?

What do I do well?

What resources do I have available?

Who do I know that can help me?

What experiences have I had that will
help me as I move forward?

Weaknesses
What areas do I need to improve?

What do others view as my weakness
or area for improvement?

What is something I would like to
change?

Opportunities
What opportunities are already
available to me?

How can I use my strengths to create
opportunities for myself?

Who might be willing to help me?


Threats
What could hinder my success?

What are potential problems I could
encounter?

What are the challenges I face?

What are the restrictions in my life
(time, money, vehicle, access to
computer or the Internet, etc.)?

S
M
A
T
R
pecific
easureable
ttainable
ealistic
ime-bound

Effective Goal Setting:
More Than SMART
Prioritized
Reviewed Periodically
Revised as Needed
Accountable to Others

More Than SMART
Periodically review
goals and modify to
reﬂect changing
priorities and
experiences.

More Than SMART
Share your goals and
engage with successful,
motivated people who
also set goals.

Avoid Unrealistic Goals
! Insufﬁcient Information
! Goals Set by Other People
! Always Expecting Best

The greater danger for most
of us lies not in setting our
aim too high and falling short;
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but in setting our aim too low,
and achieving our mark.
-Michelangelo

Categorize for
different types of
goals.

What steps will I
take to achieve my
goal?

Accountability:
Share
Reminders

Goal attainment is
not luck,  
it takes time and
requires effort.

• Adhere to a Code of Ethics or Rules

• Consistency is the key

• Focus on Time Efﬁciency

• Prioritize

• Live by design rather than default!

Past Generations
Halligan (opinion), 2013

Millennials
Halligan (opinion), 2013

• Make Materialism Irrelevant

• Utilize the bare minimum for material
needs and enjoy life debt free

• Enhance Knowledge

• Success comes faster to those who are
open active learners

Activity Time:
Map the Network

Explicit Hierarchy
Institutional Hierarchy

• Manage Relationship Expectations

• Practice Emotional Self-Awareness

• Aware of their tempers and
idiosyncrasies

Manage
Relationships
• Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain

• Give honest and sincere appreciation

• Figure out how to get others to want to do
or not do...

Manage
Relationships
• Arousing the desire to do or act in a
particular way:

• Make the person feel important

• Let the person believe the idea was
their own - let them take credit.

• Simply building self-efﬁcacy

Become Well Liked
• Be genuinely interested in people

• Smile or be positive

• Use the person’s name

• Be interested in what the other
person is interested in

• Make the other person feel
important by genuinely valuing
what they have to offer
• There can be more power in listening than
talking
Become Well Liked

Engender
Support
• Avoid conﬂict or arguments when possible

• Show respect for others’ opinions

Nobody
Likes to Hear
!
“You’re Wrong”

Engender
Support
• Admit when you are wrong

• The sooner you can get someone to say
yes, the more they will say yes

• Let the other person do a great deal of the
talking

• Commit to a Physical Ideal

• Poor physical health is a distraction

• Body worth working for and maintain it

• Gain Clarity about Spirituality

• Have a clear point of view about the role
spirituality plays in your life

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in
the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing
something else.
James M. Barrie - Creator of Peter Pan

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to
work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
Ray Bradbury

Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save
your soul or help you sleep at night.
Marian Wright Edelman

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all
you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison

Dream big and dare to fail.
NormanVaughan

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the
morning and goes to bed at night and in between does
what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to
build theirs.
Farrah Gray

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Vincent van Gogh

It is never to late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

The two most important days in your life are the day you
are born and the day you ﬁnd out why.
Mark Twain

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are
living our fears.
Les Brown

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny
matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless
you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived
at all. In which case, you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling

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